Why anyone runs Windows is beyond me, and if you think asking Win 10 politely to stop spying on you is really going to stop it spying on you...
Android and OSX/IOS should also be considered zero-privacy environments. Linux alone isn't going to protect you but it's a hell of a head start. The DASH crowd in particular are hilarious, running a privacy centric currency on proprietary black box OS's... idiots.
Anyway, for purely comedic value I present some idiocy of my own, a crude, assumption-laden, and mathematically unsound little lunchbreak script; I was wondering what effect money being used to support BCR might have on the market price, instead of that money being pissed away on useless PoW...
#!/usr/bin/python
# BCR in circulation on day distribution by bidding starts
MoneySupply = 20000000
# BCR price on day distribution by bidding starts
MarketPrice = 0.000002
# total BCR minted per day
BCRTotalDistributedByBid = 40000
# appx. BCR minted per day that would have gone to miners
# we assume that the BN to total MoneySupply ratio remains steady
# currently there are ~100 BNs (5000000 BCR) against a MoneySupply of ~19000000 BCR
# ~ 25% of daily 40000 BCR minted
DistributedByBid = 30000
# we start with zero BTCBacking and thus zero AssuredMarketValue
BTCBacking = 0
AssuredMarketValue = 0
# we'll iterate through 365 days
n = 365
for x in range (1, n):
print "Day " + str(x) + " : " + "MoneySupply = " + str(MoneySupply) + ", MarketPrice = " + str(MarketPrice)
print "MarketCap = " + str(MoneySupply * MarketPrice)
print "BTC Backing = " + str(BTCBacking)
# each day the AssuredMarketValue (per BCR) rises a bit, we'll be pessimistic and assume
# the DistributedByBid is bid for at 50% of the current MarketPrice
AssuredMarketValue = AssuredMarketValue + (((DistributedByBid * MarketPrice) / MoneySupply) / 2)
# we'll assume that the market value per BCR increases in proportion to the BTC backing
# again we'll be pessimistic and assume it only lends half of it's actual value
MarketPrice = (MarketPrice + (AssuredMarketValue / 2))
# each day the money supply goes up by 40000
MoneySupply = MoneySupply + BCRTotalDistributedByBid
# we'll assume that each day the BTCBacking increases by 30000 BCR bid for at current market price
# eg. 30000 BCR * 0.000002 = 0.06 BTC
BTCBacking = BTCBacking + (DistributedByBid * MarketPrice)
I added the halvings at lines 31 and 35 because the initial results were frankly outrageous. As it is it yields this:
Day 364 : MoneySupply = 34520000, MarketPrice = 0.000493307694068 BTC
MarketCap = 17028.9815992 BTC
BTC Backing = 953.107444541 BTC
The glaring problem with this supersimplistic model is the discrepancy between MarketCap and BTC Backing, but then, BTC has a large (in cryptognat terms) Market Cap and exactly ZERO backing... and each US$ in existence is backed by $5000 or something of outright debt...
These numbers are not meant to be taken seriously, it doesn't take into account future supply curve reductions, and I certainly don't think all BCR assets should be held as Backed-By-Bugger-All-BTC, but I think it does help show just how much money is wasted on PoW, which could be backing the currency instead.
