is there a plan to decrease the amount of coins? there seem to be an awful lot of them

The supply has already been decreased from 500 billion. There's a reason for having that many coins, which is having a very small minimum unity that can be used for paying for micro-services, e.g. forwarding a single data packet. (That's my interpretation of it.) I've always been of the opinion that reducing the coin supply to 50 billion was already a mistake (albeit a rather small one.

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Great to see the update which fixes Pow. Is Cryptocoderz now working on the PoS "fix", which let people with low amount of espers stake more often?.
Yes, this seems to be the next item on the todo list, according to what Monoxide said in Discord.