So here are a couple of serious questions:
1) With the upcoming change to ultra low inflation and the fact that there are currently around 36.1 billion Zeit in existence, is there really a need to keep our total coinage at 90 billion? If it is even possible, how hard would it be, and more importantly, how much sense would it make, to change our total coinage to, say, 50 billion with the option to open it back up if/when we get a more massive, global adoption?
2) I can't currently log on to all of the exchanges where Zeit is traded, can anyone give an estimate of how many Zeit we currently have rotting away on the exchanges? The way I see it, there are about 14 Knights, and even if each of us only held the required 100 million, that is less than 2 billion Zeit between us. Unless we have many unknown whales, that means there is a possibility of over 30 billion either sitting in exchanges or lost in the ether.
The above leads me to think that 90 billion is just too many Zeit for the time being. I know it will be many years before those are all minted, especially with the change to ultra low inflation. But would the combination of ultra low and a total coinage cut almost in half make the coin a bit more appealing and possibly drive the price up naturally? Perhaps I just don't understand how the market works, so please correct me if I am off base or my thoughts make no sense.
Also, how much work would be involved with adding a messaging feature into the next wallet update? Would there be any interest in such a thing? I could imagine it being useful especially in the instance of users sending coins to one another for some future payment or service. The sender could message the receiver to say the transaction is coming. The receiver could then message the sender to say payment was received. Something along those lines, but obviously it could be used for other socializing as well.
1: Ultra Low Inflation means less than 181,000 new coins per year
It would be 20 years before even 3.6 million new coins are added.
Their is no cap on our total # of coins, only a cap on the Maximum amount of coins that can be sent at 1 sending.
2. None of us will be alive to even see
ZEIT reach 40 Billion, after the switch to Ultra Low Inflation,
it will take over 5000 years for a Billion coins to be added.
Direct messaging means someone could spam your
ZEIT Address with unwanted messages, or send you links trying to trick you into downloading a virus to steal your
ZEIT coins . While I must admit it would be convenient , it would only take a few bad apples to make it into a pain in the butt.
example: Windows used to allow direct messaging to IP address, the Spam became such a problem, it was deactivated on all PCs within 3 months after the spam started.
FYI:
Less than 2 Billion coins are
listed on the sell orders on the exchanges combined at the moment.