Altcoin UK
you seemed to have asked earlier for me to make it clear that im not in control of the project finances and details and if that isnt already clear(i thought that was obvious) so of course im not nor did i ever imply not even tacitly.
The parts of the tech end of course were mine and people come to me for tech questions. The fact that im the only public figure makes it a little stressful but im working with it.
In the temperament of things, my time is shifting to pegging Ive just started looking over the c++ source now.
Great David, and unfortunately the fact that you are the public figure will make your life very-very difficult in the coming months - except that you can make some damage limitation by trying to be transparent and in my opinion you are doing the right thing by being transparent.
On the technicality note, actually I am quite interested in the pegging model, I have read the Nubits white paper and while it's not in the league of Buterin of Gavin Wood, and while it's not clear yet whether the pegging could work at all, it's a quite interesting piece of material. Could you please push a public link of the c++ source? I have over a few decades c++ experience under my belt and just as a pure professional interest it would be great to see the implementation details of Nubits.
The way pegging works is like this:
you bought in 1000 coins lets say for one dollar
so 1000=1
So now, i add checklocktimeverify. And using this, i add new mining rules.
One of the rules is, after the fork, everyones funds are forced to do the same thing. If spent, they must lock X% lets for arguments sake say 99.9% of their funds back to themselves.
So the TX would pay to themselves 999 locked for X time. And one coin would be "tagged" as liquid
Now I set $1 buy wall for our new liquid coin.
Mind you, the exchange cannot sell the 999 since its frozen so withdrawing it would get declined by miners. (thus im recommending to the exchange to force withdraws before the force to avoid complex accounting)
If the coin is sold lets pretend its the only liquid coin. So now the guy who bought at $1 will sell at 1.02 for 2% arbitrage.
The cycle continues.
Now I add two more rules.
Because the guy who sold the dollar technically HAS 999 in reserve. So is it frozen forever? No.
Instead, we add rules to how locks must be done on liquid and reserve coins.
One rule will allow for unlocking of reserve coins. And spending anew. (a supply increase)
The rule will respond to variables that the master key sets by sending messages to the client (yes, its centralized at first because users would always choose the path of least resistance)
The rule says "You can unlock your coins now beginning at block X BUT you can only spend X% of them." So now, you can spend lets say 99.9% again.
So the controlled supply increase would allow one more coin in.
Also, there is a rule that goes like this: "Liquid coins from block X need to spend X% Back into a lock"
So that is a supply DECREASE and it effects all coins.
Thus we can do the reverse and force the new coin to lock back.
Control of supply allows for control of price since the walls can be set to managable levels
The reason NuBits doesnt go below is because it cant.
This is my goal to protect investors from the "same old same old" crypto bullshit.