Things are coming along nicely with Tekcoin and developments, upgrades, repairs, and some new things on the way for Tek. As all the odds and ends are fixed up and improved, promotion should become easier.
Tekcoin will survive long term. A strong foundation will allow Tekcoin the chance to grow, and keep improving. Growth is a key. Growth means spreading the coins around, information, and sharing the excitement with others. Tekcoin can reward a community that takes an active part in its growth, it is up to us. Tekcoin is in its beginning stages right now, as it gathers community and steam, it can exponentially take off in growth faster than the mintage increases. Work for Tek, and Tek will work for you.
Hi! Thundertoe! It was long ago when I wanted to sum up the fundamentals about Tekcoin and what is driving the "demand"? here is what I think..
It is always easy to promote Tekcoin among people who have some mining experience.. I look at Tekcoin as "virtual miner" and you can have the entire mining-farm running at just your old laptop. When we put it the way that when you buy Tekcoin - you buy hashpower! So the demand is based on the fact that people more likely BUY Tekcoin instead of hardware miner, because of many resons - no need for datacenter for your hardware needed (electricity and space with 24\7 internet), no waiting time for hardware delivery and that you can buy as little as 0.1c $ of hashpower and do not have to invest 10000$ at once)
As we all know that when you mine with hardware - you get less and less coins when difficulty rise and everybody is OK with that, but in POS "virtual mining" we have price decline in this "formula" as we have more coins for sale at the market.. but what we also know that difficulty is always go UP and you get less coins from mining, but when the price goes UP (that happens at the market
) - you get more PROFIT
So by the time when miners switch off their hardware all around the world, because electric bills are higher then what they mine// some smart people go and BUY Tekcoin (my favorite from all high POS coins)... but don't keep all eggs at the same busket
peace people..
Man, this can't be emphasized enough. Lets run some numbers:
Mining: Today, you can buy a 453GH/s Antminer S3 for 0.592 BTC (211.50 USD). According to Coinwars, that will net you roughly 1565 TEKcoins in 30 days with an additional cost of $28.80 in power @ .10$/kWh. Total: $240.30 for 1565. Your coins largely won't stake until next month.
Minting: For that same $240.30 today, you could have bought 10447 TEKcoins, and after 30 days you would be holding 13059 (conservative 25% stake).
Mining: The next month, your miner will generate another 1565 coins plus 391 stake for a total of 3521. However, this would have cost you another $28.80 in power.
Minting: If you bought another $28.80 worth (1252) and let the rest stake, at the end of the second month you would have 17575.
Mining: After the third month, and assuming all else is equal, you'd have roughly 5966 TEKcoins.
Minting: After the same time period, you'd have 23533.
As you can see, the compounding stake kicks mining's ass. It's a lot easier to manage and you can stake multiple coins on one machine. Of course there many variables I've glossed over, but you get the drift. Staking TEK rocks!