Here are my thoughts on Digibyte incorporating POS....
A good comprimise for a POS digibyte would be a small stake...20% per year is to high but 1% per year is too low...somewhere in between say 12% per year.....pay the stake out every 7 or 15 days, most coins pay stake after 30 days (too long)...I've suggested before going with X11 as well...a sort of X11/POS hybrid....I think paying a daily stake in theory would be awesome however the block chain would get too big too fast...My point is that digibyte should evolve into something unique because digibyte is unique. Striking a balance between spending and saving is ideal for digibyte's future. It's about price stability that digibyte needs to offer and it needs to satisfy the needs of both the spender and the saver. There is no coin on the market right now that has this perfect balance. This is our chance !
I'm afraid I disagree with POS. It doesn't encourage actual use of Digibyte and is only a means of rewarding early adopters. Not sure why merchants would want to be involved with such a system?
Not entirely true, if you take a look at Mintcoin for example, their merchant list is quite extensive, I would argue better than most coins out there right now and it's growing day by day and their POS stake is 20% per year I believe. Mintcoin is almost a true POS coin that was mined via POW quickly (ie. early mintcoin adopters have an advantage, i agree with you there).
My suggestion with digibyte taking a serious look at POS (not 20% though) is that it will discourage miners to dump it which is completely raping most scrypt coins right now. Bottom line is that we want people to either;
A. mine digibyte and hold (stabilize the network and stabilize the price)...and with X11 digibyte would acquire a massive mining GPU team
B. buy digibyte and spend (keeps with the original plan)
I'm involved a fair bit with a few very specific cryptos that offer different features...There is no X11/POS hybrid in existence yet....if digibyte doesn't go this route, another coin will and that coin will be successful, guaranteed, there is a need for an X11/POS coin. This may not coincide with digibyte's future, that's for the development team and the community to decide. I'm just trying to explain that there is a serious need for this type of offering in the crypto world.