Don't let the hate get to you. 10K was a fresh breeze. Don't be afraid to implement drastic ideas. Drastic ideas create uncertainty and uncertainty creates volatility and volatility creates opportunity and opportunity creates profit. Drastic ideas sometimes have unpredictable outcomes that lead to innovation, creativity and learning and is what drives progression in society.

When the hate gets to you when trying new things - have a look at the life of Giordano Bruno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno.

It would defy all the rules of economics and human nature but I really hope so.

As far as I understand the stake is automatically added to the coins that stake. It might be worthwhile if we make a graph on historical data to see.

Exactly, now imagine everyone wants to make ROI 3 times. It is impossible. It is in fact the "everyone wants to make ROI 3 times" that pushed the price down. You made your money with a short term view, whereas others with a long term view kept on staking. For every winner there is a loser. Keep on staking as part of the experiment and play your part to get the network stake as high as possible. Maybe there will be some more rewards down the line, maybe not and if it goes to 100 sats is irrelevant.

You must remember that crypto traders are ruthless and each guy for himself and as soon as some buy orders come in it will be gobbled up. We have all seen it - buy wall/sell wall manipulation you name it.

As has been said, 10K was meant to be an experiment. The dev was able to get valuable data from this to test the staking hardware under extreme conditions and this also adds to the body of knowledge for crypto research in general. In order to create an extreme test condition, the % for staking has to be extremely high to motivate everyone to stake. This worked exceptionally well with a network stake weight in excess of 3m. The guys that got in first well done and they made a lot of money. With such a high % staking, unfortunately, you need a lot of buy support to keep it going. Add to this that most crypto traders want short term profit, the sell pressure is very high and will remain very high.

The incentive to keep on staking is to accumulate more coins, but it seems as if that is the only incentive. That is good and well up to a point because there will be buyers that all want to make a quick buck once their coins staked enough to ROI and at some point the market will run out of steam and out of new buyers and the sells will outpace the buys. This is what we are seeing now with the tilt from more buys than sells to more sells than buys.

The coin has served its purpose and provided the data required. Some people made a lot of money in the process as reward in taking part of the experiment. The dev was very clear that it is an experiment and that he did not plan to release it to the public. IMO the dev does not have to give any long term plans or anything and does not have to explain himself to anyone - the term "experiment" in the title says it all. Any person with a remote understanding of economics and how money supply works will know that there is only one eventual outcome price wise of a coin with such a high stake %, but I dont think that price/profit was the purpose of the coin. Who knows maybe some miracle will happen and an Asian market suddenly buys huge chunks of coins, but that is the risk vs likelihood that you have to weigh up.

Out of this it is clear that although a high stake provides high returns like an adrenaline pump before sprinting 100m, it is not economically sustainable. It does however provide excellent security on the network. Too low a stake compromises security because no-one wants to stake, but makes the coin last longer. What is also clear is the usability plays a big part. A coin with no usability or not backed by real value has very little incentive to hold it. For its purpose though, the coin performed exceptionally well technically and will keep on doing well technically, generating more coins as long as the all the systems are up. I will be very interested to see how high the network weight can go eventually.

Most alt-coin crypto traders are motivated by profit and greed and therefore very few coins will ever make it anywhere.

Unfortunately 99% of crypto people are just in it to make money on the short term and there will always be sell pressure. In 99% of coins cases this is what kills a coin. Lots of traders with profit motives and very little incentive to buy.  it is a golden thread throughout altcoin crypto. In order for crypto currencies to be widely adopted it needs to have a more stable price.

What are the plans to increase demand? It is one thing to stake lots of coins but another to be able to do something with them like 1)sell, 2)buy something etc. Are there any plans for the future or is it just the ability to stake a lot and see your balance grow and hoping that that is enough for people to want to buy?

It is all about the buyer base. A hot fire needs lots of air from the bottom and lots of fresh wood to keep it burning.

If your calculations showed you that the price has gone down 10-20% per day, then you have shorted yourself. If you staked the coins you would have received 27% in coins on avg per the design.

Would you prefer $1 in cash in the one hand or on the other hand an asset of $1,000,000 and $999,999 debt? If your view of 10K is a short term one you will the take the $1 in cash which is what the sellers are doing to take their profit now. If your view of 10K is a long term one, you bank on the potential of the $1,000,000 becoming $10,000,000 in the event that the value goes up, which is what the buyers and hoarders are doing.

Lol, no you did nothing wrong. I made a joke.

Nevermind.

No I was making a joke. tw0rak said there are not enough sell orders to fill 100 BTC. So I said that can be easily fixed by placing a sell order for 100 10K @ 1 BTC, or 1000 10K @ 0.1 BTC for that matter. However I doubt that the poster would take that.

Regarding your comment on a person with 27K being a millionaire: The holding of 350K Dark at the top of the rich list is worth the same as a holding of 3k Dark. If/(when) you understand that you understand altcoin crypto.

Just put a sell order of 100 10K @ 1 BTC.

There is no sell wall. Only normal smaller trades in the top 50.

You are right, if it takes longer to get a stake than 16 days, then the coins will have to be moved and the counter will reset. I am not sure if it will carry over.

With BIG he means on average 10000% of what you staked if taken over a year.

Do you like to be paid with 1 x $100 bill or in 5 x $20's?

It does not really matter where the price is as long as it stabilizes and there is buy support.

Also, here is another pearl:
There comes a time when it is as difficult to spend $1bn than to spend $100bn. What I mean with this is that many times having tons of money or coins does not matter. What matters is having the optimal amount of money or coins. It matters though if there are outlying ridiculous exceptions in holdings. If one or two responsible persons of philanthropic nature holds a disproportionate number of coins above the upper limit of usability and that just keep on staking, the inflation effect based on coin supply should be reduced because a lot of the stake will be gobbled up by the large accounts. Those coins will probably not enter the market any time soon. Such a holder or group of holders will have the potential benefit in future to have the opportunity to spread those out at profit if the base or usability of the coin ever expands significantly e.g. (global acceptance). To prove my point, it is rumored that Satoshi Nakamoto himself owns about 1,000,000 BTC. He is fulfilling this type of role although BTC does not stake and does not have such a big inflation problem.

It does however still need buy support else the inflation problem is just moved to the lower band again.

I am just thinking aloud here - Perhaps it is felt that the private key will exist un-encrypted on the recipients PC or can be stolen via man in the browser malware? In essence, the issue is how to securely exchange a key. Traditionally, key exchanges happen with key encrypting keys which most of the time are PKI public/private key pairs. The crypto private key could be sent by encrypting it with the receiver's public PGP key. It could become technical to setup for the average guy on the street, but I would assume if someone knows how to stake then they would know how to setup PGP. It is difficult to prove that it is the recipient that has the private key unless you have proven identity via face to face. However the same can be said about the physical address entered. This can be overcome by displaying a code at the time of purchase or downloading a text file at purchase time. The recipient then has to encrypt and sign the code/file and upload it back during the session. The seller verifies the code/file by checking the signature of the recipient using the recipient's public key. if it checks out the seller can download/email the crypto private key encrypted with the recipient's public key. The process has flaws but at least solves the issue of the risk of intercepting an emailed key or displaying the key online to be stolen via man in the browser.

Using a physical address on the other hand assists with "know your customer" for anti-money laundering rules.

PS: Seems like this scenario is playing out. Time will tell.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=942977.msg10404932#msg10404932