I just don't get it. Sure, these pictures have an emotional appeal, because now all the cute kids can see over the fence. So what? Math is math.
You've got people who come to NXT with a mining mentality. Eventually they realize that Proof of Stake means they can't get a super-fast machine that gives them an advantage over everybody else and put a whole bunch of newly minted coins in their pocket. They are understandably disappointed. So they turn from a mining rig to the other tool of the mining trade, a pool. So now they're going to pool their NXT with others to be in a group that generates blocks more often than they could alone.
My big question: how do they get more money from a pool than they would get forging on their own?
By the time you do all the division of fees back out to give the fair share to all of the pool members, isn't it the exact same return on investment they would get forging on their own and adding blocks less often?
THERE ARE NO NEW NXT COINS BEING CREATED FROM NOTHING, AS BITCOIN DOES.
Forging is just a recycle of existing coins. So aren't pools just another level of "shell" in a "shell game"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game NXT EQUITY forging
Nxt EQUITY FORGING Will Leave without arguments people maintaining that in nxt ecosystem "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
Nxt EQUITY FORGING Will Leave without arguments people maintaining that POS is not so sure than POW if eventually the number of nodes forging is concentrated in a few pools.
a) funds must stay in the Bob account own
b ) forging power should remain in the node where this Bob.
c) Bob commission of forging of the account Bob should go to the "transparent" pool and the pool manager split the commission forging in proportion to the amount of funds from the accounts that were at that time in the pool. (if Bob wants
to lease the rights fees to a pool)
I do not know if this is technically very difficult to implement but it is clear that if not resolved little by little will create pools and concentrating on a few network nodes and so understand a network more vulnerable to attack .
I think the pool is very good solution for the small investor gives "equity to the system not equality to the system " but forging power should remain in the node where this account with the funds are for the sake of the security of the network.
Perhaps 100000 nxt coins maximum amount for pool will be a initial good solution
if leasing power forged for pools at most can only have 100000 nxt we would have several things:
pool forge every 2 3 days that is reasonable
would have 1000000000/100000 = 10 000 nodes to ensure network
We must not lose sight of the time factor.
The odds change if you forges every 2 3 days that if you forges every 1,000 daysForging every 2 3 days increase the amount of nxt before and therefore increase their chances of forging
