I know its harder than it sounds, but what about converting to PoS after all cann has been minted? The stake's, in my mind, time period should be similar to that of a full growth period of a plant from seed to harvest. Now granted this time frame is a lot smaller than most PoS coins BUT the stake phase could yield a smaller percentage of coins to offset the shorter stake time of CANN. Now an idea i had with the stake phase is something i dont think is out there yet.
Now if you are familiar with growing you know that you need to put harvests in cycles so you do not run out of medicine for your patients. That being said i think that a holder of CANN should be able to allocate any number of coins to stake(aka growth period of a crop) as long as they hold the amount of coins of course and only being able to have multiple stakes dependent on how many coins said holder owns. I honestly think this is one really good possible idea for longevity of CANN. Again i understand it's way easier said than done but if all can be done properly i feel it would greatly benefit the future of CANN and its role with medical marijuana.
Thoughts? Concerns? Extra Ideas?
Criticism please, be honest!
Cheers SGT
I have to admit I am not a fan of staking. It is easy enough to implement and the cycle length is not particularly relevant - if you set staking at 1% annual inflation you get 1% annual inflation.
Staking tends to encourage coin hoarding - that's its purpose and is thus contrary to the desired situation discussed above where the concern is adequate liquidity, i.e. discouraging hoarding.
It also divides your community into stakers and non-stakers through simple practicality. Those with Android wallets are your most active user base and for CannabisCoin in particular are the target users, mmj patients trading CANN for CANNdy. Mobile wallets are lousy stakers to be honest and so you end up with the situation where coin hoarders are subsidized through staking while those we are trying to subsidize, mmj patients actually using CANN, are not because staking wallets chew up bandwidth and those struggling to pay for medications are unlikely to have huge data access plans.
My bottom line is: "
What's in it for mmj patients?" and in this case all I can see is bigger data access bills for trivial recompense. For that reason I'll toss my hat in the ring now - I'm against PoS unless someone can demonstrate significant advantage for mmj patients.
That said
SGT, I do like seeing you pondering the coin's future and proposing potential improvements