5%, thats kind of high, isn't it? POS is more so to increase security of the chain, than it is to produce profit....And, how much could someone make, trading Bottlecaps in those 30 days, rather than holding them, for 5%. 30 days, a smart trader could make a minimum of 400%+....And, lets say there's 10 million coins in existence, and everyone holds them for 30 days, that's a whole lotta coins, being added, at once...
Don't get me wrong, I love CAPS, and I love fallout, I'm just not sure this is good for it in the long run
5% is just the reward for the coins that end up being staked.
The confusion seems to be coming from the term "interest"
People seem to think for every month you hold 100 coins you will gain 5. This is simply not how it works. Out of the 100 coins you have eligble you are likely to only have a smal portion end up being staked.
Lets say your on the lucky side. And 20 coins get staked. The 20 coins will move to the staked collumn and you will recieve a PoS block equal to 1 coin. Those 20 are then not eligible for PoS rewards for another 30 days. The next month maybe another 15 are staked. You would then recieve .75 coins as a Pos reward. then again those would be unavailable for rewards for 30 days.
I understand the confusion as Proof of Stake has never been explained in complete detail. I will begin working on a write up to give people a better understanding of how Proof Of Stake rewards work.
Proof of stake is not designed as a profit scenario. It is simply designed to give miners incentive to "offer" their coins to the network to be used as stake to secure it.To prove this will not cause rapid inflation, Let's take a look at the NVC all time graph. Until recently NVC used a 5% miners reward for PoS blocks. Until they moved to a more complex system. If inflation were an issue we would see a large increase in coin production between days 30 to 90. Let's see what the graph tells us
Source: Cryptometer.org
Now you can barely see it. But if you look at the blue arrow. That is the total # of coins minted through the proof of stake method. It currently totals 7,826 coins. Compared to the total supply of 409,000 Pos minting equates to less than 2% total supply after Pos has been active for 16 weeks
It may look like PoS has just started to dramatically rise. But that is not true. It has taken since day 30 until week 16 for the supply to even show on the graph.
Lets take a look at the longer chart of PPC.
Now ppc uses a dynamic ROI based on coin days destroyed. The less currency available for stake the higher the ROI typically between 1-3% if I am correct. ( Please correct me if I am wrong)
Source: Cryptometer.org
Once again the POS minted currency is barley noticable. It just became large enough to show on the graph at week 44
Total currency = 19,000,000 roughly PoS minted currency = 58,000 % of currency minted By Proof of stake = .33 roughly after nearl;y 1 year