An idea I thought could work for Noble was a form of POS, but not in coins, but in marketplace discounts, which is more or less what you just suggested. I think I even mentioned the idea upon the noble forum once upon a time. Such as hold a coin for a month, you get an extra 1% discount tacked onto your account... another month, another 1%, and so on. Cap it at a certain amount, just so people actually buy something eventually. Yet I guess there is only so much of a discount you can offer before you'd go broke.
Exactly, perhaps you were the one that seeded the idea in our heads. The issue is how long the discount can last (I can probably guarantee at least 6 months) and how to continue making the coin something people want to hold afterwards.
To be frank I could blatantly buy a number of coins, released by us or dead, and then offer up to 50% deals on the marketplace to entice a rush of buys and pump the price. I could cash out on the pump and use the profit to provide said deal for a certain amount of time. Sooner or later the game of musical chairs would be over though, the deal would end and people would be left holding. So what we are planning is how to deal with this transparently, that encourages speculation, hoarding and volume, using a number of umbrella coins with differing, preferable specifications to counterbalance and deals to swing back and forth. Deal for one coin one month, deal for another coin the other month. Massive incentive to buy, trade, hoard, speculate on Noble-linked coins, because sooner or later you would score great deals if you wanted even if you lost out on the previous round. A 'commerce system' that needs a lot of thought if it's to be done as honest and transparently as possible, while remaining enticing for people to buy and hold regardless of current deals.
I personally think there is a lot of power in the marketplace, it just needs to be realised and come to fruition.
Basically whatever it takes to make sure NOBL stays enticing as hot technical specifications change approximately every 3 weeks.
