I can give a few counter examples where a swap put life into a coin that before the swap was followed only by a small group of people, like ZEIT now.
Take XDE2 for example, as this one is very related to ZEIT situation: they changed the total coinage, adjusted PoS rates and did the swap. Before the swap there were only 100 coins and a tiny PoS.
They wanted to extend the number of coins, increase the PoS for a while and made the fork. It worked fine, and the group of people that follow the coin increased. Also they didn't get delisted from any exchange.
I can also give few examples, from FIAT world, of countries where cutting three or four zeros, brought back people's value perception to the normal levels.
Last but not least, talking about 5 per each person on Earth sounds very megalomaniac to me, if we struggle to get 1BTC volume on all exchanges combined on a stable basis. Sorry, but that is ZEIT's reality and it has been like that over a long time already. If we aim for MASS ADOPTION that is exactly the argument against having so many coins and big numbers: things that are successful in a big scale have to be simple enough so that many can easily understand them. There plenty examples of nice things that were misunderstood by people and thus never been adopted in mass, although the inventors were rock solid convinced that was the idea.
XDE2 is an interesting example, considering the XDE community
voted against it , and
Vegasguy did it anyway. He kind of completely ignored the votes & community.
When they swapped correct me if I am wrong , but did they not increase the # of coins instead of decreasing.
They also created special wallets (People could Buy) that had a higher staking rate than the standard free wallets, (You think that is fair, I don't).
They are on Yobit and they paid to be on it.
What is impressive, it is one of the few wallets on Yobit not in maintenance mode.
The original xde is in maintenance mode on yobit.
All a reverse split will do is hurt our market cap, there is no point to it.
People perception of the size of the coin is not a problem, the constantly refilling of our enemies Sell Walls is the problem, having too high an interest rate is the Problem.
Lowering the inflation rate alone will get us where we need to be.
Notice the only coin going up in value is BTC, because they make less than 2000 coins per day, when we make the switch we will only be making ~500 coins per day.
Our Price will rise, because our inflation will finally be under control and not crushing us at the exchanges.
FYI:
Simply Put,
Vote Yes , if you want ZEIT to Survive & Thrive , and your coins to have a growing value.
Vote No , and we die a slow death from hyper inflation, and your coins become worthless
I brought XDE example on purpose as it is very similar to ZEIT. XDE Coin before the swap was in the same development stage as ZEIT is right now. I was one of the early holders who initially was voting in favour of that swap. I didn't agree on the implementation details (paid wallets, his payment) and how Vegas took over the coin, but he was right in one thing, namely, the coin needed changes to induce some life into it. He made the swap with 7:1 ratio (1 old coins got 7 new, increasing the number of coins), increased the PoS and increased the total coinage. Apart from that some development was made, although it was mostly wallet cosmetics. The end effect was to have bigger community and more volume.
Regarding ZEIT, as I wrote in my previous post, we need some rudimentary development in the first place, the parameters of the coin are something secondary. Otherwise, we are one of the poorly developed coins that has not much to offer. If we, however, want to adjust the parameters, I would cut the total number of coins as well (we may put it on vote as well to see what the others think - till April there is some time left). 1:1000 swap would be a good compromise in my opinion.
As for the market cap. It is about the
total volume, and not the product of total volume and the coinage, what is
relevant and representative. This market cap term is just bull..t. Point. It is extremely important to understand the difference, and I see that you kiklo miss this point completely. Having 1 zillion of coins and the price on some minor exchange with 0.1BTC daily volume, doesn't mean that you will be able to sell all coins in circulation for that price. Meaning that the
real market cap is MUCH LOWER THAN the product of the coinage and the current price.