I didn't understand PoI fully yet. Is there a complete calculation example?
can someone tell me, how much more importance i will probably have, if i have 2 stakes with each half of the amount compared to one with the full amount?
and will the importance go down to zero, if i just HODL and not use my coins at all for paying or receiving?
poi of all users sum to 1.0
sending and receiving is good for poi
combining those two facts, if you have two users having similar amount, one hoarding, other sending + recv some amounts, the former will most likely have bit lower importance.
there are other factors too
if you have vested balance > 10_000, it's quite unlikely that your importance will go down to zero.
thanks, but still this are a little to less numbers :-)
and is 2 nodes with unused coins the same as 1 node with the combined amount?
shall I sit in front of my computer and send back and forth? probably I will pay more fees, than I can ever earn, right?
I just want to know, what I can do, to improve importance.
- better internet connection?
- more nodes?
- setting up dedicated node for others?
Do not set up two accounts and send XEM to them back and forth to each other. That will wreck you POI.
As far as I can tell most of your POI comes from aging your coins. And then part of it comes from spending and receiving to accounts not related to yours. I aim for at least 90% aged according to my tests in the beta. (but beta network had different users, spending habits, and account bases, so I might be off)
Still... spending does have part to do with it. In one test during the beta where I was able to spend very well I was able to get an account with 20 times less NEM to get its POI up to almost the same level as an account that only hoarded.
Part of the problem with POI is you will be hitting a moving target. So for instance, as Gimre said all accounts will add up to "1". So it is a 0 sum game. And as far as I know and can tell from testing your strategy that helps you today, might actually hurt you tomorrow depending on what other people are doing, and if they are trying to boost their POI too (just like any other game and strategy). This is because the algo not just takes into consideration what you are doing, but other people too and how they act can also effect your POI even if you stay the same.
Think of a soccer player that kicks the ball the same way every time. Against some teams and some games that might help, but in other teams and other games it wouldn't. Now that the main net is starting and the beta is finished, it is like a new team and new game. Really only the main devs know for sure how it works, but they have been very clear that your coins age in over 30 days (really indefinitely but for all practical purposes they are mainly aged in over thirty days) and that your spending (not back and forth to yourself) affects your POI.