Uh, it's not 'fully' POS though, it's still hybrid.
I do wonder if the POW should be stopped though, whether by bringing the block reward back up high to still reach the targetted number of coins or just lower the number of coins.
It's just weird having 1 block reward, few will mine and MIGHT leave us open to a POW 51% attack (I remain skeptical about this).
I was talking to winevirus about that today. We could switch to POS only I just put fully POS so people don't try and mine it and become upset if they don't know there is 1 block reward then i didn't feel it was necessary for them to know
I would like some feedback to the switch to fully pos? any comments?
I think it's too early for the coin to have this hybrid security. There's going to be an insufficient number of wallets staking to keep the chain flowing at a decent speed to ensure that transactions are processed at a reasonable rate, certainly won't be running 30 second blocks on it's own. This leaves us wide open to a POW 51% attack at present as there will be very few securing the POW side of the chain.
The coin's been under attack on the exchanges from someone/thing keep dumping mass quantities of coins, which I can only assume they'd been buying in order to dump (been seeing hundreds of millions dumped @ 2 at a time when the price has risen to 3), so if they're not fussed about spending money to crash the price, chucking a smaller amount @ forking the chain on a regular basis wouldn't be a far fetched concern.
If the above is accurate, then that leaves us with three options (off the top of my head, but I know others will come up with decent ideas as well):
Option 1
Increase the block reward to ~1,000 for mining to get a reasonable hashrate to increase the cost of anyone trying to fork us, until we reach the 99bil target, by which time hopefully they'll be a sufficient number of wallet staking at any given time to keep the chain flowing nicely.
Option 2
Swtich to an X11 algo so we lower the costs for mining so the core members of the community can keep some hash power on the POW and increase the reward to ~100 coins per block.
Option 3
Increase the block time to ~2 minutes, this would give the staking more of a chance to keep the chain flowing smoothly which also giving it a chance to interrupt any POW attack on a fork while still keeping transactions at a reasonable speed and then in a few months bring it back down to a 30 second target when there are more wallets active.
As stated, this is certainly not an exhaustive list and I'm certainly no 'dev' to understand the complexities of my suggestions, I'm simply putting some ideas out there that spring to my humble (yes, I can be humble Lion so shaddup) mind