You're misunderstanding the psychology of coin collectors. I have collected stuff all my life. My uncle taught me to collect coins, then it was onto baseball and basketball cards, and so on and so forth. The value in whatever you're collecting depends on the condition it's in and how rare it is. How valuable would a limited edition anything be if you decide later on that because the USD moved that now you're going to make it less limited? That is basically what the US banks and federal reserve already do and why would we want to bring that weakness into cryptocurrencies?
I think the total number of coins must be less than Bitcoin to be worth more than Bitcoin. It's not really something you can disprove because the math is the truth. Mincoin is the most valuable coin and I think this coin should copy Mincoin and go with let's say 8 million total coins (Mincoin has 10 million). The only mistake Mincoin made was they had a 3 day IPO launch which most people believe was a bit too quick but beyond that as far as the mathematics behind it go, for a mere fork of Litecoin it has better long term value than Litecoin could ever have.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-mincoin-cryptocurrency-project-worlds-fastest-rare-altcoin-ann-165397 The math does not lie.
Now am not saying everything about Bitcoin or Mincoin is right but the one thing Bitcoin and Mincoin did get right was to limit the total number of coins. That was one of the best decisions. The volatility isn't going to be an issue once the infrastructure is in place do you're trying to say Netcoin should try to solve a problem which wont be a problem by the time Netcoin becomes mainstream?
Netcoin's problem will be growing fast enough and being valuable enough. The infrastructure will be in place and so a fast-track IPO in my opinion is the best way to do it not just for Netcoin but for future coins where the launches should be faster and faster because there shouldn't be the assumption that there will be time to launch them like there are now. Either the environment will be much more hostile to cryptocurrencies or much more competitive and either way a quick launch is a competitive advantage. Bitcoin was the first so it could take 5 years because there was no infrastructure. The first websites and search engines could take a longer time but the growth rate has to improve.
I'm saying Netcoin could get away with 11 million coins, this is less than Bitcoin and competitive with Mincoin. It cannot get away with 400 million coins or 100 million coins or 60 million coins. It has to be less than Bitcoin to be competitive with Bitcoin because no one is going to buy into Netcoin if Netcoin isn't worth as much (and never will be) as Bitcoin. It should be a decision where Netcoin will eventually be worth double what Bitcoin is worth and then everyone would buy Netcoins as soon as it's useful and they can spend it.
Crypto currency miners/users aren't coin collectors, they're people who want money and/or believe in the rightness/goodness/whateverness of the crypto currency concept. The value of something, while certainly
influenced by its scarcity, is not purely a function of said scarcity. Its functionality is important too, what can be done with it, how useful it is for those functions, are there better things to use for it, etc. For instance, there's a GREAT HUGE amount of ounces of gold in the world, MUCH MUCH more than 21 million, but an ounce of gold is still worth more than a bitcoin, even if bitcoins go to ten times their current value. And the reason for this is that gold is very useful as a store of value. It's easily divisible(as are almost all metals), it's reasonably rare, it's difficult(although not, unfortunately, impossible) to counterfeit, and it DOES have certain real world applications, such as jewelry and electronics.
A crypto currency doesn't have a lot of things that gold has, but it DOES have some of the things that are most important for a currency. Namely, scarcity and divisibility. However, being ridiculously scarce isn't always a good thing. Sure, it may hold some value, even great value, as a store of wealth. But one thing that a currency NEEDS in order to be
successful is widespread acceptance and use. Gold has been used as money by almost every known civilization that has ever existed and had the capability to mine and refine it. But you know, platinum is worth a lot too, and it's very rare. How come no one has ever used THAT as a currency? Because it's TOO rare. All the platinum that has ever been mined in the
history of the world could fit in a single cube measuring 25' to a side. That's not ENOUGH for it to be used as a currency in any but the smallest of nations. Crypto currencies are meant to be
worldwide currencies. Sure, you can divide them up into smaller and smaller pieces, but even then, it's not very much when you consider the population of the WORLD. ~7,000,000,000 with 21,000,000 bitcoins. Obviously, not everyone will have a whole bitcoin, or even a tenth of a bitcoin. And that's assuming that no bitcoin has ever been lost, and never will be.
Personally, I think that the 21 million mark is about as low as you can go and expect to get actual acceptance worldwide as an everyday currency, which should be your goal in a project like this. Honestly, I think Litecoin is much closer to a good mark with their 84 mil.
tldr; some mild scarcity can be good for a currency, lots of scarcity usually isn't good for a currency that's more than a place to store value until you convert it to something else.