I get the part that we're a full node already. What I don't get is why we don't have increased rewards for having, say 100m zeitcoin in the wallet while running a full node.
DASH, for example, requires 1000 units to earn what amounts to something like 11-18% interest, and that seems to be working out really well. And the purpose of having this node is to act as an annonymizer and process stuff. Now we don't have to anonymize anything, but having 100m coins per node securing the network all the time is better than 3m coins. So if we gave a 1% annualized interest rate for having 100m coins, then you'd have a buyer's incentive, and an incentive to save.
Or am I missing something here?
Dash has less than 8 million coins, with a larger portion of them tied up in MasterNodes.
Masternodes do not receive interest,
In return for being a masternode, one masternode is selected by the network to receive a part of the PoW reward of each mined block.
Dash's PoW reward is only 3.6 dash per block at a blockspeed of 2½ minutes.
Dash makes 576 blocks per day , Meaning their Total inflation is only 2073.6 coins per day.
ZEIT PoST has 5X the transaction carrying capacity of Dash, by moving to ultra low inflation of .0005% ,
our new Total Daily inflation will be less than 500 new coins per day.
We are moving to such a low interest rate, because to be frank , there is absolutely no way
ZEIT can grow or even sustain a decent market price if our inflation causes millions of new coins to be generated on a daily basis, which is what is currently happening.
What the ultra low rate does is Cap our inflation , to a reasonable number , that allows the coin's price to stabilize and grow.
As far as incentive, Our incentive changes from creating excess inflation out of thin air that crushes the marketcap, to one of where when you stake a block your client includes the transactions and as such you will receive the transaction fees , which will become a higher payout than the ultra low rate per block as our volume increase in time.
It changes our dynamic , to earn more of the transaction fees , you have to stake more blocks, however the more
ZEIT coins stored per block the better your chance to stake and earn the transaction fees. There is an increased incentive to keep the wallet Online & Staking to stake as many blocks as possible , so you earn more of the transaction fees that did not exist with the old way
(where people just leave the systems offline and only stake every few months).