Hi sphere, nerioseole, and maardein,
First, thanks for your contribution to the future of Globe.
I agree with sphere that GLB needs some big changes, otherwise it might die.
I agree with nerioseole and maardein that reserves make GLB unique.
Here is my suggestion:
1. 10% Reserve and 5% Dev/Ad. Merge PSM funds to reserves. And keep the reserves (10%) and dev/ad (5%) taxes. Set the hard fork point to some block, e.g., 150000, so that pool operator and GLB owners have time to upgrade their wallet. If owners don't upgrade their wallet, the synchronization will stop at a particular checkpoint and a notification will ask owners to upgrade. If miners don't upgrade their wallet, their found blocks will become orphan. So the most important thing is to keep our mining pools upgraded. At this point, it is not a big deal for such change.
2. Reserves. The reserves are reserves. GLB owners could claim their GLB for BTC, if their GLBs are older enough. That is, if their GLBs were received, e.g., 10000 blocks, ago. This can prevent instant dumping. Also, their must be some limitation on the amount. The exchange rate is determined by (GLBs to be claimed)/(Total Mined GLBs)*Reserved GLBs.
By the way, don't be panic at this time. All ALT-coins are dropping these days. They will rise up again once people have their faith in cryptocurrencies again.
Three months also let the GLB community realizes that sphere is trustable to manage these reserves. So keeping the reserves is not a bad idea. If sphere insists to remove all taxes, then we can have a test. For example, you can set between xx and yy blocks, there will not be any taxes. After yy blocks, there will be xx% taxes for reserves and dev/ad. One-time code change is enough.
What do you think?
bcfanminer