Smoothing the Market Price of DNotesEdited to correct an assumption that I had made in my original post. I had assumed Dnotes Global Inc own the DNotes that guarantee the funds in DNotes vault. This is not the case, and it is a reflection on the support this currency has earned that these funds are made available by supporters.I recently read that Steam will be dropping bitcoin as a payment option. The article cited both the price volatility and the transaction fees. "Steam had been using Atlanta-based BitPay to process the bitcoin payments." And BitPay are still working on solutions to overcome problems caused by fee volatility.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/357797/steams-drops-bitcoin-as-payment-option-citing-price-surgesFor a long time now, DNotes Global Inc. have recognised the requirement for stability in DNotes price and transaction fees. Then recently Alan revealed they are considering 'post-mining' 10,000,000 DNotes2.0.
Now, to answer your question, based on our current thoughts (subject to change), at the launch of DNotes 2.0 an amount equal to the then current supply of DNotes plus 10,000,000 additional Notes will be mined for the 1:1 coin swap.
Adding the post-mine to the current amount of existing DNotes brings the total amount of DNotes2.0 planned for the swap to 139,681,000 or so. This would mean that DNotes Global Inc. would hold approximately 7% of all existing DNotes2.0.
The value of a cryptocurrency is not based on the average of what all holders think it is worth at the time or going to be worth when they need to sell it. It is based on what the few people who want to sell at the time think it is worth, when agreeing with the few who want to buy. So in DNotes' case, the current price over the last day has been determined by the transaction of only 570,000 DNotes. Or less than half a percent of the total DNotes in circulation.
So if half a percent of all DNotes sets the market price, and DNotes Global Inc. holds about 7% of all DNotes, then it is possible for them to buy when the price is low, and sell when the price is high so that the market price remains more stable. And doing this would be profitable as well. If this process was automated to respond to market fluctuations, the result could be a very stable price that encourages long-term investment, and discourages short-term speculation. This price stability would then make DNotes more functional for daily use, and this would increase its real value.