What is the total amount of coins that will ever be minted?
I could not find it in the OP.
OK. I did have a look at source code earlier. So let me explain a bit how Digit works.
Theoretically the cap is stated in source code:
MAX_MONEY = 90000000000 * COIN;
So- 90 billion coins. But i would not take that number seriously, because after 1000 Digit blocks will end, this coin block reward will be driven by difficulty and small time multiplier.
The only chance to easily mine Digit with graphic cards is first 60 000 blocks - which lasts about 1 month from launch. If difficulty does not rise over 200-300 then block reward will drop a lot.
With scrypt coins difficulty of 200 is around 2000 Mhs network hash rate.
Current time multiplier is around 3.x As an example, lets say that in June, the difficulty will be around 200. Formula for block reward is simply time multiplier x difficulty. So its 200 x 3.x = ~ 600 DIG.
Heres the catch. Today the highest difficulty was about 4.x So if Digit difficulty continues to stay very low, then block reward will be only 4.x x 3.x = ~ 12-19 DIG or so. Thats drastical decrease from 1000.
Thats the beauty of this coin. It is meant to swim with the global market demand, but gives the chance to mine yourself nice amount of coins if you are early adopter.
1 month of 1000 DIG is plenty of time for everyone to mine some Digit to themselves. I think its fair. Especially considering the huge amount of rapidly mined coins trend. Pretty much 90% of coins which are launched are like 5 days to 2 weeks mining and thats it. Thats not fair to anyone. Thats BS if you ask my opinion.
Considering that monster asics will come in middle of summer, this coin is perfectly timed. Large block rewards will end just before those hit the market and mining will be handed over to Asics.
DSF mentioned that they will set up multipool later. Thats also perfect solution for GPU miners. Everyone will be given a fair change to mine and multipool will give some extra buy pressure to keep Digit price on par with other coins.