I have no clear idea yet on what todo with the unclaimed stake but here are the things I'm utterly against doing.
Charity
If we're gonna do that everyone can donate form their own stake. It makes no sense what so ever to use unclaimed stakes to donate to charity. It wouldn't be very charitable actually since those stakes don't actually belong to us.
More for stakeholders
We want to spread NEM wide and far and not give more to the people that already have NEM.
PoW Giveaway
I didn't even no about this idea prior to reading TaunSews post but yeah...totally fucked up imho. Here we are saying how much greener we are and how were not wasting energery and then we go ahead and do this ?
Giving it to celebs
Srsly ?
Destroying them
Basically same deal as with "more for stakeholders".
Using most of it for development
Are we underfunded ? Hell yes ! I still think this would be a bad idea as it would also not spread NEM further unless we figure out a guaranteed way to sell them to many people.
The goal imho has to be to get more people into NEM not get more NEM to the people that are already here many of whom are only in it for the profit anyway.
I think we all know the goal is to get more people, but how?
I wouldn't just write off some of the things that you are "utterly against doing" without dwelling deeper into it.
Don't miss the forest for the trees.
First of all I don't like the idea to enrich the stakeholders by burning NEM or by spending more NEM.
This was not the intention of UP. His intention was spreading NEM all over the world! In my opinion we should offer POW and faucets to spread NEM.
Almost the half of all altcoin supporters like mining. Therefore we should offer them such a possibility.
More Nemsters = more popularity + less FUD about possible disadvantages of POS/POI by mining people
The settlement of faucets is another possibility to attract more people.
My suggestion:
70 % of all unclaimed stakes for "mining"
10 % for faucets
20 % for further promotion or App- development.
Just to make it clear: I hate mining but the mining-community is as big as ours believing in POS and POI. Therefore we should keep this in mind when we decide what to do with unclaimed stakes.