We need to be careful what we wish for. If all the existing coin started staking at 40% right now, when volume on the exchanges are low like they are, can you imagine what that would do to supply, and hence the price of TEK? Lets get the price/volume up, get listed on a larger exchanges, then worry about the micro-staking issue.
Yes I agree we do need to be careful what we wish for. That is always good advice to follow. In this case I believe that you have misread what I was wishing for and then made a false assumption based upon not fully understanding my intent.
My first point to make is that I am not asking for the system to be modified in such a way to grant everyone 40% interest. I am trying to expose that the system appears to have a flaw in the distribution process. This flaw is being exploited by one user and so that user is controlling the difficulty and causing an unfair distribution of coins. This whether you recognize it or not is a far greater threat to coin value than 40% interest again. I believe it was the intention of the designer of this crypto-coin to increase the difficulty if
many people were participating in the system and staking increased. In this case the difficulty should increase to control inflation. That is fine and dandy but what a single user is now doing is that he or she is simulating hundreds of users with having many smaller blocks staking every minute. This is choking the system and causing an unfair distribution of the wealth. This is I am very sure not the intention of the designers of crypto-coins.
I know this because my wallet had done the same thing a while back. It was unintentional and when I was alerted to the problem by reading this forum I took prompt action to rectify the situation.
The throttling mechanism that I am suggesting is to help insure a fair distribution of wealth while at the same time allowing the difficulty to go up if many users join the system. One user should not be able to single handily dictate the difficulty of the entire system.
What if the user whom ever it is decides not to cooperate, then what. Worse yet what if others decide to do the same thing pretty soon the interest rate drops from 5% to 2% to .5% then TEK coins main attracting point as a high interest POS coin is no longer a valid claim. I think that the closure of this exploit loop hole should not be left to the hoped for good will and honesty of the users. It should be enforced by the network. It is best to always assume the worst case when humans and money are concerned.
Again my recommendation is to employ a throttling mechanism in the algorithm so that if a particular user is getting to many blocks that wallet is temporarily disabled for a time so that other users can have a fair chance at getting a block award.
Remember crypto currency is still in its infancy and is still experimental in nature. We have uncovered a defect in the system and so I believe we should react to the defect and repair it in order to keep the coin healthy.