RE: Gridcoin Research 4.0-2018 Roadmap Progress Report #3
If I understand it correctly, I think the Constant Block Reward/Manual Reward Claim idea is a good one.
It motivates the little guy (such as me), yep I won't argue that I'm speaking out of my own interest a bit.
But I think it adds more value to the inherent purpose itself, the economy by spreading the wealth better out and for the community to stay commited if you have to work for it instead of having an oligarchy that rests too much on past achievements by onlining a big wallet every now and then cashing in and creating a bunch of inflation.
Ofcourse you have to nuance this, and a mix of interest and the facts above is all fine by me. I understand if people interested in investing instead of boincing they'd want to have returns.
Just my opinion™
I can't give an answer on the rest of the questions, don't know anything about it.
We hope to educate as best we can before we get into the actual creation of the polls. Help us help you: Do you have any specific questions? What are the unknowns you are looking for?
Personally, I think Manual Reward Claim adds an entirely new use-case and funding option to Gridcoin in the form of Funding and Crowdsourcing. If we can figure out a way to use decentralized control in order to release the funds (I'm confident that we will), imagine what we could do with the MRC fees and Sidestaking! I will be writing more about sidestaking (which might see a name change) in the near future.
Dynamic Witness Participation, Masternodes (are servers?), MRC and sidestacking you just said are mostly mysteries for me :-)
Dynamic Witness Participation (DWP) is decentralized and based on randomness -- anyone can make a superblock. It affects nothing but superblock creation.
Masternodes are centralized and based on financial support -- only the wealthy can create superblocks. Masternodes affect several other aspects of Gridcoin and present serious risks with regards to development.
Manual Reward Claims (MRC) is described in the original article: here
Side-staking is mentioned in the additional features section of the same article. I will be writing more on it in the future.
Thanks for clearing that up! I read the article but seems I missed that part on the lower section of it.