How can the number of SDC destroyed go down?
Quite simply as wheat mentioned (although I would not use the word missing ... it has been destroyed/converted for SDT equivalent) ...
Say I have converted 1,000 SDC to SDT ... after several months I have finished doing my business and decide that whilst I am on holiday I want to earn some extra SDC via PoS ... I convert my SDT to SDC (thus creating 1,000 SDC (hence the total of SDC destroyed goes down)).
Also, if we wanted to convert some SDC to SDT to create outputs for the network, what do you think would be the optimum value to use? It seems like there should be some value that would create the most SDT outputs per SDC converted.
Below shows the current state of Shadow Tokens ... take 300 as example it has 68 tokens available. so you could send a transaction for 300.1 (that should create a token of 300 + 0.1 fee(or whatever the fee is for that amount))
sdc@www01:/$ shadowcoind anoninfo
{
"No. Exists, No. Spends, Least Depth" : "value",
(snipped anything <1)
"00178, 00116, 10403" : 1.00000000,
"00085, 00054, 00704" : 3.00000000,
"00322, 00209, 00720" : 4.00000000,
"00325, 00198, 10460" : 5.00000000,
"00170, 00126, 16274" : 10.00000000,
"00086, 00074, 44283" : 30.00000000,
"00206, 00145, 10460" : 40.00000000,
"00250, 00220, 00704" : 50.00000000,
"00157, 00141, 39691" : 100.00000000,
"00068, 00060, 00704" : 300.00000000,
"00115, 00102, 10460" : 400.00000000,
"00131, 00119, 10460" : 500.00000000,
"00129, 00121, 00000" : 1000.00000000,
"00027, 00024, 32477" : 3000.00000000,
"00034, 00027, 10460" : 4000.00000000,
"00064, 00059, 10460" : 5000.00000000,
"00053, 00045, 33699" : 10000.00000000,
"00014, 00010, 32477" : 30000.00000000,
"00010, 00005, 10460" : 40000.00000000,
"00009, 00004, 29224" : 50000.00000000,
"00010, 00009, 40373" : 100000.00000000,
"total anon value in" : 3642373.87009438,
"total anon value out" : 2800979.57000000,
"total anon outputs" : 5083
}