Once the block reward is near 1, I believe by then hopefully the community has created a desire to have the currency. This is usually done by some popular trading/bartering website, casinos, reliable fiat store and so on. I would say reddit bartering for steam games and such is usually a good start.
Yes, but even if we have one of the most popular altcoins, the math clearly says that it still cannot sustain a network that can prevent easy 51% attacks. That's my whole point. Raise the minimum then this problem goes away. We don't have to raise the minimum by a lot, the essence is still preserved. Trust me, I want this coin to succeed as much as anyone, I have a modest sum of 25 mil, but if nobody takes the math seriously, I will have to bail until the community decides to come to their senses.
I completely agree with you on this and it was the first thing I thought when looking at the specs for this coin. It didn't stop me from mining it though because it would be so easy to just up the 10x 100x multipliers and fix the problem.
We've got a growing subreddit with a tipbot and were starting to drum up interest, but this issue will eventually drive away the miners who know what they're doing.
I think its time to fix it.
A few more thoughts...
If we wait until this coin becomes unprofitable to mine, we will lose all of the momentum that we have built.
[Edit: This coin is ALREADY unprofitable to mine. People are only mining it because they think the future scarcity will send it to the moon, but it won't. It's going to be TOO SCARCE and the network will just die.]
Changing the minimum block reward would give this coin VALUE BY DEFAULT, even without popularity, it will have value. If we were on coinchoose and/or coinwarz and it's profitable to mine, MINERS WILL MINE they wont give a fuck what it is.
Cryptsy/coinchoose/coinwarz will probably not be interested in picking up topcoin because it will most likely die if left as is. Cryptsy does not have the extra resources to gamble right now and despite popular opinion, they're not retarded.