Quote from: Muis on June 19, 2014, 07:48:41 PM

Quote from: doldgigger on June 19, 2014, 04:01:05 PM

So many pump'n'dump crapcoins out there, but no one ever tried one without subsidy, in order to find that out?

Every coin would need some form of subsidy, else there would be no way to distribute the initial coins.

But it would be nice to see a coin where this subsidy doesn't go to the miners, but to random users for example. Normally alt-coins attract a lot of miners, and almost no users. This coin would attract a lot of users, and almost no miners, so the opposite. But since a lot of users means a lot fees, in the long run those fees would attract miners anyway. So I agree, it would be a interesting experiment.

Well, before mining pools were invented, mining was exactly that: distributing coins to random users.

So the question would probably be: how to best distribute some initial coins among users, so there will be enough transactions to attract miners using fees?