So with the compound staking myth dispelled, it leaves us with some interesting conclusions.
Try this one on for size:
The TEKCON wallet is causing the micro-staking issue. Whew! I said it, now let me explain:
When a pile of coins in your wallet is ready to stake, for a period of time while the staking is occurring, your balance subject to stake is not available while the whole magic happens behind the scenes. Then once everything is kosher, what re-appears in your wallet are 2 address, each equal to ½ of your original amount plus half stake. Cool eh?
Not so much if you were staking say.. .5 TEK. If you received 40% on your half-a-TEK, you now have two wallet address, both with .35 TEK. Let this ride for a while, and multiply the problem by thousands of folks with wallets, and hopefully you begin to get the picture.
Now for some good news: A hard fork to fix micro-staking may not be necessary. We may be able to fix the whole issue with a.) education and b.) a wallet update.
In regards to the wallet update, if it could be modified such that the entire original balance plus the stake were deposited back into the original wallet address, this would help immensely.
I believe the community it's self can fix the issue if it chooses. Since we have shown that breaking your pile into several and staking daily has no financial advantage, if all the 'true believers' would take advantage of coin-control and just keep your coins in fewer piles, we could take care of the bulk of the problems ourselves. Now that being said, there will always be bozos out there who refuse to be responsible and help the community at large. That is were the proposed hard-fork would help out. Make it so balances under a particular size, say 5 TEK don't stake at all.
In the short term, I am not at all in favor of the hard fork. (WHAT?
) Again, let me explain. We just got our tushes kicked by Big Vern at Craptsy. Before the Craptastraphy, we had decent volume on the exchange for our coin. Now, many folk have left, others are waiting to see, so volume isn't where it should be yet.
I believe the Micro-staking issue is actually acting in our favor by preventing coin balances from causing run-away inflation. You see, I believe originally the thought was that enough folks would buy in to the eco-mint idea, and with enough players world wide, the difficulty would rise naturally and inflation would take care of it's self. As things are today, we have a smaller group of serious stakers, and lots of folks with small holding. (check out the rich list!) The small number of folks with large numbers of coins, myself included, would benefit from large staking each month.
With the numbers of folks interested in TEK still on the rather small side, It would be quite easy for a few of us top 10%er to crash the coin buy staking multi-millions of the little suckers then dumping them on the exchanges. Value would plummet. Far better that the difficulty is high due to micro-staking, and our earnings are curbed until more interest in the coin is generated.
Once the price begins to rise, more people will want the coin, then difficulty will rise further, and percentages will drop even more. That will be the time to address micro-staking, not now.
So as a community we have work cut out for us. 1. Trade the coin! Have fun with it, do some day trading to get volume up on the existing exchanges. This will help with getting noticed by a larger exchange. Hopefully you make a few bucks in the process. 2. Become mouthy in a good way. Chat up TEK on the exchanges, don't lie, but be enthusiastic. Get the word out. 3. Coin-control your stake piles into fewer, larger piles. This will help with the difficulty. While we don't want difficulty to go away, we don't want it to stifle the coin either. 4. Keep voting on exchanges where we are not listed. Our ultimate goal should be Bittrex and Polo, but they want to see enthusiastic support, and volume. We have neither right now, and wishing and hoping are not going to get us there. We need active community involvement.
I have more add later, please comment on this, I would love to have some feedback!
Joebwan.