(edit: In addition to wishing more coins would copy Gatra's soft-start approach to block rewards used in Riecoin, more coins should copy Zoidberg's 1% ongoing dev fee from BBR. The incentive difference between a 1% premine and 1% ongoing revenue is HUGE. The premine invites a fast pump and dump; the 1% ongoing revenue motivates continued long-term development.
Heck - XMR should add this so the team has food on their plates. :-)
Hi. There's this thing called politeness. It works even on the Internet.
Second - your comment makes me believe you aren't familiar with the BBR model that I'm advocating. In BBR, 1% of the mining output is sent to the developer as a revenue source for ongoing development. This 1% "dev fee" has nothing to do with inflation. It decreases over time as the block reward decreases. (It's also subject to a vote by the miners.)
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I see you changed your response to this:
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No. This is just stupid. XMR should be a currency, not some kind of company with profits to developers.
Right. Because high-quality software writes itself! Woo! Ponies for everyone! Unicorns too!
Let me suggest an alternate view: the 1% ongoing revenue stream is to incentivize the developers to keep writing good software that increases the value and utility of the coin, which benefits everyone in the ecosystem. Cryptocurrency is not a closed system; its real competitors are things like cash, checks, and credit cards. To the degree that improvements to the core software allow any cryptocurrency to be more competitive against those established methods of payment, the players in the cryptocurrency win. Actually, everybody wins -- except perhaps visa.
