Not terrible at all. XCN approximates that for a very long time with its 10-year halving exponential curve. I've said before I like that aspect of it.

I actually believe that it would lead to more general trust on that the coin will retain its value, than the opposite of 100% premine and 0% inflation that is touted as "good and ultimate and the value will only ever go up because there will never be any more token X". Problem is the number of such tokens is growing at least linearly, and typically the developers abandon them as soon as the initial pump is over. Not formally abandon, but practically.

If a coin is used by a community, either as a store of value or transactional medium (typically and naturally both in varying proportions), it will have value based on the economic potential of the community. If the outsiders believe in the community, the coin may gain speculative value among outsiders. This has been the case with Bitcoin at times, but I would not rule it out happening with Monero soon, due to the special quality of its community. (It may have happened with some other coins some times also.)

If a coin is developed for outsiders, with the developer intent of receiving value out of it, instead of augmenting value to it, it will experience the initial pump and then die. Very bad coins may even fail the pump. (Not all pumps that look high are successful. A successful pump means that there is at least one sucker who buys into it, and that cannot be judged from the price or even the volume alone).

What does VIA hope to improve over Counterparty?

Is Clearinghouse focused on smart contracts mainly? Decentralised exchange? If it's a decentralised exchange, what makes it better than the already existing NXT AE?

Thanks! This thread has numerous nuggets of wisdom for cryptocurrency developers.

My latest thinking is a coin with the same parameters as Bitcoin. Verified turn-taking replaces proof-of-work. Block rewards are shared among high-availability full node operators, who must join the Bitcoin foundation, ultimately as voting members, or local equivalent in order to support Bitcoin Core developers.

By the way, since yall are now discussing other alts that show promise like monero,  it might be in your interest to look into this guy's project.  

Coinsolidation I mean.

Perhaps normalize to total supply so all of the coins are at least on the same scale?

Not sure if this is to OT, but what's your take on SuperNET? 

I have tried to coax some sensible answer out of the people in the supernet and btcd threads,
but honestly, it all seems to be techo-gibber to me. No meaning at all. But everyone claims
that there's so much behind it - even though nobody seems to understand what. It all hinges
on that single guy (jk777 or whatever) which seems to be extremely productive in terms of
coding and extremely incapable in terms of communication...

maybe this helps you?



just posted in BTCD thread

It didn't help me, and I'm not being deliberately or apathetically critical of it. I try to understand things, which is why I went to the trouble of figuring out what his teleport thing was about. SuperNET is still a mystery to me, despite pictures like this, or perhaps because of them.

Ahhh.  Now I get it!