Recently Znffal came up with an idea for us to lease out franctional sanctuaries to those who cant afford a full sanctuary.
I was thinking of potential ways to make this happen and here is what I have so far:
The pool could offer two new services: Sanctuary technology leasing, and Fractional Sanctuary leases with Dividends.
For STL, you spin up a node on a provider like vultr and set it up per the information given by the pool, the pool provides the data on the config page. Then you are paid weekly for the technology lease.
The second side of this, is the FSL. (This is for the average end user who wants the investment.. So we have a one-to-many relationship from FSL->STL. It might take 40 FSLs to fill up an STL). In this case you sign up for a certain quantity of 1000's that you can afford, (that is BBP * 1000),
and you become a leaseholder on record assigned to an STL ID, and you send this fractional escrow to the address the pool provides on the page, and at that point, you start receiving dividend payments based on your investment amount
automatically as long as the escrow remains in the investment.
The pool then combines all the BBP received for an STL into one transaction and creates an escrow vout for it and saves it (this is used to populate the page for the next STL).
So my first question is, what do you think is fair compensation for the STL? They would pay $5-$10 a month to lease the vultr node, and they only have to set it up once, but then they do have to reboot it every time they see new start required. So I was thinking maybe $30 for setup + $20 a month for the vultr lease renumeration + $10 a month for restarts = $60 a month. We could then convert that to a percentage, maybe that is 30% of the average deal. Once we know the percentage we could do something like this: 30/60/10: 30% to the STL, 60% to the FSL pool, and 10% to the pool....
Anyway, I think it would be a pretty cool hit-- also we could offer this as a way to "park" extra BBP for extra investments that happen to be laying around.
One thing I wanted to note: The STL would be the one to vote for the sanctuary, so that would be part of their responsibility.
Hi Rob,
I like this idea a lot. I think that the effect of this would be to reduce the number of "stagnant" coins in wallets and on exchanges which is beneficial for the holders of BBP and for its price, which is good for the orphans, the project (i.e. IT budget), and the investors. It would also help more in the community to feel that they are getting some value from their coins and to feel more connected/involved.
Regarding specifics of your idea/plan. I like the idea of having the STL and FSL. The voting rights was a potential issue that you have resolved by giving that to the STL.
A few points/questions:
1. I assume that the STL would not start a masternode until all FSL spots are filled? i.e. the full 1,550,001 BBP has been raised.
2. What requirements would an STL need to have (aside from renting and running a server, voting)?
I propose that they would need to contribute a % of the required BBP (required FSL) for their node. For example, maybe they need to put in 10% of the FSL (roughly 150k BBP coins) to run an STL. I can imagine a situation where it is more profitable to run an STL than it is to mine BBP which seems less than ideal. Having the STL contribute some eskrow also would reduce this issue.
3. The address that all members would send their portion of FSL to, would this be an address controlled by the pool? This seems better than an address controlled by the person running the STL. This mitigates the "trust" issue.
4. My opinion is that 30% for the STL is a little high, or at least, this should change to reflect the changing price of BBP. For example, if one day the 30% is roughly $60, and then we go x10, the STL is effectively being paid $600 a month.
Maybe a one time set-up payment of $30 (perhaps taken from the first masternode payment), then $20 a month for the vultr lease renumeration + $10 a month for restarts = $30 a month or roughly 15%.
I think the setup fee should just be for the first month...
I am a bit torn on this point as they are providing a service that would otherwise not be available to the FSL contributors. Hmmm, tough one.
10% seems fair for the pool to host the service.
EDIT( thought of a number 5.)
5. What happens if people want to withdraw their portion of the eskrow? Does the Masternode have to shut down until a replacement is found? Or do we implement a fixed term contract? i.e. a month long contract and you cannot withdraw your FSL contributions until the end of the month/contract?
In principle I think it would make a lot of people happy that their coins are actually being put to use.
The time-frame is pretty tight, when could such a service be implemented?
Thanks!