Just want to chip in again
I said before we were at risk of becoming a 1 percent coin - that has come to pass
Huge difficulty in signing up to mine and share the rewards for the small guys
Solution
No blocks to joining or mining / stake on anyone wanting to mine up to 5000 RAC / no restrictions to heat mining / CPIDs required up to limit / other
We need numbers to come to BBP - doesnt matter where they come from
The argument some will set up multiple accts - so what? - adds up to more numbers
Maintaining multiple accts takes time and effort - making sure RAC doesnt go over 5k to max out reward? / maintaining multiple PCs / updating wallets / etc - all add up to not being worth it
Once miners / others have a small pile of BBP - they become stakeholders - then they might want to continue building a stake - ie buy
Monthly selling of BBP needs to be done with far greater discipline
No more dumping of large blocks - I believe the agument a few superblocks ago was we are allright in the short time - just needed to obtain the months target and so dump.....
This attitude towards selling just pisses off previous buyers who paid a lot more
Observe the last few superblocks and price action - you will see no reason to push the bid - coins will be dumped at any price - just put in a lowball bid and you will get hit
My 2c
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I'm not saying I would, but its pretty enticing for miners solely after profit to go though the work to split machines up to fall under any cap. If they do that, then they do one of two things, either the dump unneeded coins and destroy the price or they convert into Sanctuaries and skew the ROI for others. Again, not saying they would, but if our two biggest did that, there would be roughly 50M BBP suddenly freed up, if that all went into Sanctuaries, it would mean an instant 10% increase in Sanctuaries.
More importantly, it opens the door for botnets to crush our coin. That was what was occurring before PoDC, it appeared half to two thirds of our coins were being mined by botnets. When they left, the price rebounded (which could have been for a variety of reasons, but legitimate users started seeing reasonable numbers). The people least sensitive to the price of generating coins would be the ones hijacking computers and given enough incentive many will cheat.
We've tried to gain users, you can earn more writing orphan letters each month than the average home system is going to generate on PoDC but we struggle to get letters written. You can get an airdrop which is enough for the average home system to partially stake and get rewarded but haven't seen a ton of small new users from it. You can go to BBP-Pool and PoDC for 65% of the reward with NO Stake, but their user base seems to be capping out. So would this help, who knows but so far there have been three methods to get around the objection that it's hard to get started due to stake and there has been little long term growth directly tied to that. My belief is removing the stake would get users that are solely for the financial benefit, like I am at Byteball (and would wager most if not all the others from BBP that are there are for the same).
As far as selling the Orphan block, yes, I would agree. Sell no more than 10% of the take per day would be a good starting point, 5% might be better.