Joe claimed they will destroy them, but how much stock do you put in that and what justifies the continued testing every day (almost nonstop). It either works or it doesn't and spot checks a few times a week of the 5-10% nodes may be reasonable, but not the continuous operation of a 350% node.
Scott
vancefox brought up something else too - and I'm paraphrasing here so please excuse me if I'm off - I think the problem is that the test node staking in production is affecting the staking "chance" of other wallets, so even if the coins get destroyed that still won't make it fair.
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what I've said. Every time a production stake occurs on that wallet in which the coins will be destroyed (as far as they've claimed) that stake is removed from the network. Say an average of 1xpy per stake from a "regular" wallet and a claimed value of $20/coin... That wallet stakes on average 4 times a day so they're "stealing" $80 per day every day that wallet stakes in production.
Even if they destroy the coins today right now there are 40 stakes that will never be recovered... that's, by GAW's valuation and my assumption of approx. 1 XPY stake per wallet, $800 in XPY.
That's my evaluation... someone else is welcome to disprove it.
