Quote from: RedxBaron on April 19, 2017, 04:34:10 AM

Quote from: R-J-F on April 18, 2017, 03:43:34 PM

Quote from: raizor on April 18, 2017, 12:50:40 PM

Quote from: cryptohunter on April 18, 2017, 08:47:13 AM

Just implement the tax system dash and pivX are doing ok and bitbay are considering it.

How can being taxed piss anyone off. You pay a tiny % in block tax and see a large % increase in your overall value of holdings due to developers keeping pace or rising above other leading projects dev teams.

People who object to the tax are free to dump to stronger hands who see the need of a well funded and motivated dev team.

Of course full ledger and voting system would be nice to direct funds where community sees need most.

I no longer even look at coins where there is no funding and the dev is selling what few coins he had at the start to live. His motivation shrinks daily to continue the project. Tax supplies constant source of funding.

A tax (from the staking users' 6%) or an additional amount (on top of the 6%) generated by the network for development funding?

First, drop the word "tax" if you want this to go anywhere, it is abhorrent and smells of centralization. Call it a "maintenance fee" and you might get more supporters, myself included. However, I still think an ICO would raise real money and allow the project to ramp up quickly while it is still somewhat unique and hasn't been overlooked as just another anon coin.

Perhaps the different ideas presented here could be brought to a vote in the not too distant future?

I totally agree on this. I think the community needs to understand that this is after all a community project and not a company that generates income. All ppl involved in the team have bought into Cloak some time back and have the incentive to make the price soar, like everybody else in the community. The only difference is that the Cloak Team has spent their own hard cash to bring Cloak to the point it is today. Without this initiative Cloak would not exist today.
Everybody here wants Cloak to be successful and prays for a big increase in price but this willl not happen by itself. We need to think what is required to bring this advanced and execellent system, and I think we all agree on that, to into the spotlight of main street.
The most crucial point is funding! No proper funding, no development, no marketing, no PR, no presence in the market. In the real world all these things cost money.
The crypto world is changing and is on its way to become a recognised financial market with ppl from the old money world flocking in to get a piece of the pie. This is already the case today and projects are being developed by real financial pros. We need to say Good Bye to the good old shoe string times and need to readjust to survive in this new world.
Watching Cloak for almost 2 years now and holding sustantial amounts of Cloak myself this is what I believe should be considered as a marching plan:

*** Rebrand Cloak (Cloak and Dagger is out with governments get started on cracking down on anons, Coin is out as the market has shifted to broader visions)
*** OS
*** Prepare for an ICO with burning Cloaks 1 on 1 for the new currency to ensure all current holders participate in the lift off
*** Use a professional ICO consultant to guide the team through the process, open doors to investors and place new system right away on major exchanges
*** Carry forward the current code base and add what might be useful as the foundation for new development
*** Introduce a Community Foundation
*** Use the ICO proceedings as capital for this Foundation
*** Introduce a "Maintenance Fee" to make the funding sustainable for the long run
*** Introduce a PoS Voting system and a governance model to allow the community to steer the course of the new system
*** Define a clear and simple mission statement and a vision of which planet the new system wants to land on
*** Work all this into a clean project managment system with a rough time line
*** Do all these things above in a transparent, public fashion in plain public view and with the PR effort....

Voila, just fasten your seat belts....

Let's do all this quickly .... there's no time, the time is money. We need moving forward.