Unlike many coins which care about their whales (with a huge PoS percent) or about big miners (huge mining rewards),
MOON defends investors.
That sounds like marketing speech, somehow.
MOON does not defend investors any more than any other coin.
Anyone can buy large quantities and sell them to push the price down. Anybody can throw big quantities from the past into the market now. Nobody keeps them from doing that. Now, how does Mooncoin exactly defend investors? Imagine a veteran crypto-user (alternatively veteran crypto-investor), no newbie, to explain it to.
PoS is rewarding everyone, according to their share. At least everyone has the same chance to get coins for their stake at any given time. With PoW this is reserved to big miners ONLY, if the difficulty is high and with PoW additionally comes the problem of the spikes and a stuck blockchain when the big miners leave. This keeps new investors from buying in, because if they cannot rely on the offered block time, they cannot be safe, that their coins arrive on time at the target address (maybe an exchange where they want to sell MOON at a good price). This is exactly the problem, bitcoin has at the moment, but bitcoin is the first and best known crypto (which is its bonus), while MOON is not. With PoW small users without knowledge about and time for getting into mining can only buy on exchanges and wait what happens. Why not help to secure the chain with their wallet, even if the stake is only small.
MOON in its current state cannot be mined rationally with small equipment (CPU) anymore. Even with ASICs it can only be done at a loss if you don't own a big mining farm with cheap running costs in China, like it is with bitcoin. Nobody will buy a rig only to mine MOON and someone trying to mine MOON with a CPU will turn away soon, if they recognize that they only get 10 or 20 MOON a day, and only IF they found a share at all. But everybody can download a wallet and buy coins from an exchange. So even technological not so savvy users can help secure the blockchain and find blocks. Check out a coin like Stratis, it works really well with PoS and it is seen as the future (better than Ethereum) by many with its concept. Ethereum will change from PoW to another system (most probably PoS) in the future, too. PoW has immanent faults and the danger of centralization, as we can see best with bitcoin. This will be the case for every coin, that gets that big, Mooncoin included. So better take measures against that now than later.
The problem of early stakers having the most coins to stake from is the same with a proof of work coin. Those who were early on the playing field could mine with very low mining costs also (just see the rewards in the early days of Mooncoin), as is the case for only buying coins in the beginning at a low price to get a big stake (PoS) early. So the starting position for any new Moonie at any given time is the same for both variants: high price == high difficulty and low price == low difficulty (but even the lowest difficulty now will not let the average user (with only a CPU) get in at a rational rate). The advantage of PoS over PoW is that for PoS you don't need to invest into mining equipment before you can earn something and don't need the technological knowledge which prevents most of the average users from securing the blockchain.
But aside from PoS I have suggested/described other methods.
Think of Proof of Human Work: People in poorer countries could make their living by working for Mooncoin. They get tasks and solve them. They secure the blockchain. All other Moonies profit from their work and can share their wealth to them. Let people do the work, not machines. Win-Win for everyone. Now THAT would be a real story worth telling.
INT(19697202017/(INT(nHeight/100000)*100000))
e.g.
Blocks 1,100,000-1,199,999 Reward: 17906
Blocks 1,200,000-1,299,999 Reward: 16414
Blocks 1,300,000-1,399,999 Reward: 15151
Blocks 1,400,000-1,499,999 Reward: 14069
Why 19697202017?
The first lunar landing was performed at the
Sea of Tranquility at 20:17:40 UTC on July 20, 1969.
That needs too much explanation to be a real good story.
As for MoonWord and SmartLikes: many of the people in this thread and the old one have not even understood what the concept of this is. -->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principleWho needs SmartLikes? If someone has found a thing that he wants to reward someone else for, he better can send MOON directly to that person, use flattr or the such, instead of typing UNIX-like commands into a website, manually connect this with a record that he has to make on another website in order to get paid for this finding if another one likes his like, but he only gets MoonLite and then afterwards has to change this into Mooncoin (and finally USD etc.) ... come on, seriously?
). But maybe MoonLite, SmartLikes and MoonWord are just too complicated or simply not really useful for the average user and one should come back to concentrate on developing the coin as such (PoS and/or CPU-Mining from the wallet directly etc.) instead of wasting development-power ...