A second PoW period is still under discussion, but it does appear to be the best available solution to growing the MastCoin community, barring a substantial change in the current situation. Keep in mind that if adding a second PoW period increases the size and involvement of the community, it likely will increase the value of each coin, regardless of any increase in the total number of coins.
One solution to reducing any potential impact from increasing the number of coins would be to keep the total number roughly the same by lowering the PoS interest percentage to compensate.
My initial guess would be that if there was a second PoW period, it would not have SuperBlocks, and it would take place over a longer timeframe than the first one.
I agree that it is the best solution so far to grow the community, we need more and fresh faces around here to help grow.
I think that once the PoW period date has been decided, the twitter accounts of MastCoin & everyone here need to be begin spreading the word to whomever they can. Most coins nowadays don't last very long once the miners and dumpers have left, this coin is almost 2 months old, to keep it going longer we need more awareness and investors.
Perhaps a % bonus could be added to the coin recycler during the PoW period and a handful of new coins implemented for recycling. I think this idea has been suggested on previous pages.
Another idea being that a small % fee of the transactions in the recycler during the PoW period go towards a giveaway at the end of the PoW?
Do you have an update on the development of Stage 2 on the Roadmap?
Here to help in anyway I can.
Edit: I notice on the first post of many coins they list all articles/publicity of the coin, whilst here we have none.
People are still writing articles about MastCoin (
http://thebitcoinnews.co.uk/2014/07/10/mastcoin-tofrom-bitcoin-via-wallet-coming-soon-coinrecycler-update/)
It may be worthwhile to reach out to more sites.