We have run out of chips again. New chips are being prepared. We need to find a better solution.
Our current ideas are:
a - kind-of traffic light that will show when chip level is too low - green ok, yellow under 50 BTC, red under 10 BTC
b - massive chip pool increase - that would require to open up for investing and that would require to set flat fee instead of donations
What do you think about both ideas?
I'm noticing a slew of other mixers with their announcement threads on bct. Can't say if Chinagate has anything to do with the increase in demand (it shouldn't) but you might get a better clue to which option to go for if you could somehow gauge the top level of demand. Why I say this is because I think I'm voting with the majority here (B: invest), if only because the option of a massive chip pool increase seems like the nearly immediate solution. I don't want to draw any comparisons with a particular fork of Bitcoin, however, but this solution could also be temporary.
If you could predict the max demand, and then map out growth, then you could open up investment in stages.
Option A is great, and I'm sure very doable but you'll lose customers. Unless Red alert also accurately informs users before completing that they will get vouchers. As long as the vouchers don't come as a surprise, you'll be ok.