I read about PoA and I am really happy to see a new innovation. Basically, the way I understand it is that the longer a person leaves their wallet (node) running the higher their priority. If a person in addition to this sends out coins, they get a bonus for each coin they send out and that bonus basically adds one second of time to their node. The node with the highest "time" on the network gets to forge. (in this case "time" equals real time + one bonus second for each coin spent). Is this a correct understanding of PoA?
Brokers and TaunSew (TauntStew) are trolls just put them on ignore and be done with them.
AFA the POA forging, I have not read the whitepaper so sorry but from this it sounds like I can just move all coins from one address to another each forge cycle and If I have the most coins I will be the only one forging. Or do I not understand this correct? I am just leaving my coins until Https is available in the original wallet.
I am wondering the same thing. If I move all my coins out, then I could be the most likely forager, especially if I am a large coin holder. Buuuuuut..... I am curious about the fee paid, and it might be possible that the fee would be higher than the probable amount forged. If it isn't random, maybe I could move coins and then be the next person to forge, but with a little randomness it becomes a gamble.
If you are a large holder and keep moving your balance around yeah, you'll forge more blocks than most but you'll lose more than you gain. You aren't forging every block so the blocks you dont forge you will lose much more than the ones you do forge.
I just checked. Trying to move a large amount, like 100,000 has a fee of 350. Since most blocks are 0, once those coins were moved and chances to forge are increased, it is likely that soon thereafter the person that moved the 100,000 and paid 350 will just forge a block of 0.
It seems like there isn't a way to game the system by moving funds, at least at this stage. It seems like the chances to forge is really just dependent by whoever has left the client going the longest. If somebody does happen to move coins, then yes, they get a good chance to forge. It only makes sense as they are the ones paying fees, so it is nice they have a change to get some back. All and all, it seems like a nice system and better than PoW. It seems like the Node client is very light and easy to run in the background. I also like how people are rewarded for maintaining the network and processing transactions (any transactions even small ones) instead of just doing busy work like in PoW.
PoW was a good way to bootstrap a coin in that it got people interested in a coin and helping to maintain it, but this method is better. A nod to the devs
Edit: I just looked and it seems like quite a few blocks have really high fees as some people are moving around large amounts of NODE. And at other times it is less than 1 NODE.