Ok this is probably going to annoy you guys and I do apologise but I really think it needs to be this way for the project to succeed. I'm not even a programmer and i'm more of a hardware, web, OS/application support guy but I did do some programming when I was a teenager and in my early 20's. Anyway I have setup a git repository at:
https://github.com/caston/devcoinThe changes I have made are to the share line in main.cpp
static const int64 share = initialSubsidy * 1 / 10;
and I have been changing the makefiles to build devcoind instead of bitcoind
So what I basically want to do is change the share so that miners keep 90% of what they mine and 10% goes to the open source projects. By doing this I think we will actually collect more devcoins overall because more people will mine. Its the same as if a country has a high tax rate no one wants to work or run a business there.
I haven't started trying to mine with this change and I am not sure what will happen if I do. My assumption is though that it would only work if all the other miners made this change too.
Now I think we can double make up for this. There has been talk of moving devcoin to merged mining. I think this is a horrible thing to do because people have been using their hardware and electricity to mine coins as an extractive currency and now you are suggesting turning those coins into mere tokens. Investors will have very little interest in tokens and thus there will be little prospects of a high exchange value.
This is not to say that tokens are not very useful. They have an excellent niche of allowing trade between projects that are operated for "purpose" rather than for "profit".
So to "double make up " for the reduced levy we start a new currency called DevToken. DevToken starts off as a token currency since day one so none of the miners are losing wealth over this. Devtokens are merged mined with Devcoin. So you mine for devcoins and Devtokens are also created.
So the miners keep 90% of their devcoins and 10% go to opensource projects but to "double make up" for this 100% of the devtokens can go to open source projects. The tokens are of little interest to investors but perfect for allowing open source projects to trade with each other. So they can hire a person from another project to work on something for their project and vise versa.
The collected devcoins that go to projects helps the people with their real life expenses e.g. food, rent, electricity.
But if we consider the people working on these open source projects are working for the public good. They may be doing more than writing software for instance developing a way of automatically fabricating food and clothing.
We are doing something much more radical here. We are actually creating the means of separating public services from the state. After this happens we get things like health care and education light years more advanced than anything that exists today. This will truly help us become a more advanced civilisation.