I think questions and answers deserve to be copied here too.
unlimited supply?
hi devs
i have few open questions regarding current Project design to discuss:
1. What i don't understand is how can unlimited supply be beneficial for this Project to succeed?
*my thoughts: From economical perspective if demand does not meet the offer than the value is doomed to go down, so basicly i will be able to mine the same amount of coins with my pc now and in 10 years from now independent of actual value, demand, interest and independent of how many Hashing power mine at the time. Now exactly opposite makes the Bitcoin so valuable, the more people want's to mine/generate Bitcoin the more difficult it gets to mine/Generate one Bitcoin and thats whats magic is all about. So if you would design algo that way that as more miners compete (bigger Hasrate) than make it more difficult to generate. That way i wouldn't see unlimited supply as a Problem as of my computer that generates approx 1500 BTM/day today would generate 1 BTM/day when thing gets popular and a lot more of people would mine it. It would mean no hyperinflation, fair distribution among miners, and increasing in value.
2. If current design does not change, what incentive does the miner have to keep Producing fresh BTM Unlimited? if the value minimizes that is..
3. Centralized? What happens if your Servers gets hacked or disabled? Whole structure collapses?
let say for example one day BitMoney gets very very popular and a lot of Services depends on his Infrastructure, what happens if Servers that runs this Payment System gets Hacked, Stolen, Manipulated, Taken Down, Disabled? Would that mean all those Services depending on this Payment system would Stop working?
4. Are you guys trying to make Visa/Bank Kind of payment System? If yes how can it compete, what are pros?
Maybe i am totally wrong and missed some important puzzle parts, that's why i wanted to open this thread to have right Perspective.
Thanks for your answers.
cheers & sry for bad english.
1. Unlimited supply doesn't mean it's free to mine. You spend your electricity and CPU time, it has price. So there is some production cost. Some guys probably has "free" electricity and computers on work or embedded miners in rootkits but it still has some price, smaller than for fair VPS rent but not 0. So when exchange rate crosses that line, some part of the miners drop off eventually. That's how equilibrium price will be found.
Bitcoin has complexity changes for block\hour rate adjustment at first, that's the nature of mine there. Hence BTC, imho, doesn't have manufacturing cost in general (and we still can see it as price *2 in weeks). And i consider deflation as a problem too, money supply should follow economy growth.
We thought to increase complexity a little every month, to make it HYPE a little. It would involve additional people. But as our goal is some real world usage and stability is good there we didn't implement the feature.
2. And you answered 1st question. They will stop at some point if there will be no demand from economy behind.
3. Yes. We'll try to build failover infrastructure but it's still vulnerable in comparison to decentralized systems. So use with cautious.
4. In many ways, let's say there will be opportunities just not possible in VISA. And it's not about criminal.
One note. Please calc not just risks but profit/risk ratio too. We can compete in this area.
P.S. As i can understand you english is not a problem at all. I'm not a native speaker too.