2) Distribution of coins (active)
It is very common in the launch of a new cryptocurrency the distribution algorithm heavily is weighted towards the very early adopters. Such distribution is designed to give a massive advantage to people who are fully prepared to mine at launch, with a very large difference shortly after sometimes a few days later. If the point of mining is to both secure the network and fairly distribute coins a gradual build up of rewards makes more sense, with no drop off in mining rewards. At a standard block reward of 300, at launch each block will reward 0.3 coins leading up to 3, 30, and finally the standard reward of 300 which will be the standard unchanging reward from that point. It will take approximately 3 weeks for the block reward of 300 to be reached.
Right now, blocks appear to be worth far less than 0.3 coins.
Height 391, transaction <9ea334b55889dbbbb7124311acfdc867727db16c5a3bb92a6c44db10d7c4dc69>, received 0.00387897
Height 393, transaction , received 0.00389881
Height 395, transaction <152131f947dd47b6329f4d504912db4ef04ba3a24e95b64c0afcff99f949118a>, received 0.00391865
Height 397, transaction , received 0.00393850
Height 401, transaction <2f2f8b9c555047e5609a33d6c248aef6785b65ced1e0168318d2ab3b807ceb10>, received 0.00397818
Height 403, transaction <957f5675810bc3a6f99b9d8bf5c001562961815c3dc64049321941face17d3f3>, received 0.00399802
Height 404, transaction <4d988fc591722663d524cf53985f6195e8edb5a93692b449659a09db95ed2f46>, received 0.00400794
Height 407, transaction <3885c1338fe7f85b60672832d1ce18b9433b9c633007116b5691859916ab35c2>, received 0.00403770
Height 408, transaction , received 0.00404762
Height 409, transaction , received 0.00405754
Height 410, transaction <6805808518bfc30778bee2b3aa0a3817ef08224cd91b475768cf8a0c7a89bda0>, received 0.00406746
However, the reward is certainly increasing, it would appear at a rate of 0.00000992 XPB per block. Additionally, it appears this block reward increase rate has been constant since launch:
print_block 1
block_id:
{
"major_version": 1,
"minor_version": 0,
"timestamp": 1420045059,
"prev_id": "80e28ab82d17e61319309c7525d2f76a78731d0c6099b646bce2948d670181ff",
"nonce": 2560968748,
"miner_tx": {
"version": 1,
"unlock_time": 11,
"vin": [ {
"gen": {
"height": 1
}
}
],
[b]"vout": [ {
"amount": 993,
"target": {
"key": "b10f2823cb33bc86c1a5d6f9db7db5b35935eff73797ec61b81b80678cc63652"
}[/b]
}
],
"extra": [ 1, 18, 123, 185, 12, 142, 71, 242, 140, 202, 226, 46, 174, 141, 109, 250, 144, 16, 177, 225, 217, 65, 19, 155, 171, 225, 54, 2, 144, 249, 113, 45, 180
],
"signatures": [ ]
},
"tx_hashes": [ ]
}
Those are atomic units, so that would be a block reward of 0.00000993.