Eadeqa your supposed to be a "respected" member of the nxt community.. stop talking shit about nem as if nem has done something to personally harm you. i know you want to "fit in with the gang" and all but this is just lowering you to a bottom feeding troll destroying what ever respect you had.
This isn't a new point. Nxt didn't have development fund, so unclaimed coins went to development development. Nem already allocated 25% for the development, and now they are planning to add unclaimed coins to that stash, growing the development fund to 50%. I mentioned this months ago, and back then Jaguar acknowledge this could become a problem. Nothing has been done to fix it, except doing exactly what I warned will happen. Nem has the biggest percentage of coins controlled by the developers, only behind Ripple.
50% of coins would be controlled by the developers.
If this is true than 50% is way too much! The develompent funds should not exceed 25%. If it does, this will haunt us like NXT initial distribution forever! These unclaimed stakes need to be burned or distributed to the current users! Heck, 2000 initial users is still amazing, even if we don't get to the number of 3000. NXT had only 71!!
Dev team will not control the unclaimed stakes or socks from socks. No one ever said we would. Don't listen to trolls for your information
What to do with the unclaimed stakes and stakes from socks has been discussed and is being discussed on our forums at forum.nemcoin.com
For the unclaimed stakes, the idea of putting them into a venture capital fund to feed the NEM ecosystem seems to have a lot of support. This fund would be a legal entity that is incorporated in some country and will be managed by professional fund managers who have their identities public. This would be completely outside of the control of the NEM dev team. All NEMsters would benefit by having the fund pay dividends to stake holders.
For the socks, nothing has really been discussed yet as we don't have all the final numbers public. There are some proposals to redistribute to those who run nodes, at least for part of the stakes. There will probably be 3-4 different uses for the stakes for the benefit of all NEM stakeholders. These stakes won't be controlled by the dev team.
As a side note, I think there is a good chance to go with 8 billion NEM