I'm tired of people making these dumb assumptions that proof of stake forging makes the rich richer, leading to some sort of financial crisis when they have all the nxt. this is only true if they hoard them forever and never trade them... also, the only reason someone has >10k in transaction fees is because of the alias landslide... im sure the fees each day is pretty insignificant right now.
says the guy that had 28 million NXT in the account...
http://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=3000&acc=7579216551136708118This rich (He took a big risk) vs. poor (you didn't take any risk) obsession is really getting tiring, here was my response to this a few days ago:
I think instead of focusing on the rich getting richer, we should focus on the poor not getting poorer.
In Bitcoin (and all it's clones), holders are basically paying a fee (10% of their holdings a year currently) just to hold their bitcoins. This fee is paid to miners, and the inflation it causes devalues everyone's stake. So the only people not getting poorer are ASIC manufacturers+friends mining huge amounts of bitcoin to dump, and passing that cost onto bitcoin holders. Thus, this is a very real situation of the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer.
In NXT, everyone who is a stakeholder is guaranteed to not lose a single percent of their stake, ever. Sure, the rich may forge the majority of blocks, but that in no way affects the small stakeholder's holdings. This lets the small stakeholder build his stake up over time (let's say he works hard and gets paid in NXT), his stake will continue to grow and grow as long as he makes the effort. He may eventually even become a big stakeholder himself. In Bitcoin, the small stakeholder loses 10% of his stake every year, and has to fight an overwhelming uphill battle to get to the top.
So if you truly believe Bitcoin is better distributed (which, it is not:
http://nxtcoin.blogspot.com/2014/01/nxt-distribution-infographics.html), if you truly believe that all miners are equal (which it is not, ASIC manufacturers own the scene now), and if you truly think that your Bitcoins aren't losing value over time (which they are, due to inflation caused by mining), then stick to Bitcoin.
Otherwise, why are you concerned with who holds what? Envy? In NXT, at least the small guys don't get screwed over by huge inflation pushing them lower and lower because they can't afford entire ASIC farms (which also assumes you get your ASIC on time, and not after they become worthless). If you work hard, present novel ideas, and get rewarded in NXT, your stake will only grow over time.
