This would be a big minus for me. My controller wallet is on my notebook, which is my only one PC and that is not running 24/7. I really don't like an idea to put my wallet somewhere to run it 24/7 (e.g. VPS). I like current state It is ideal for me. OK, i'm just a small fish here, but I think, that you want to point this coin to people like me too. If there will be mobile phone wallet with this option, it wouldn't be so bad. This would be acceptable to almost everyone. There will be just another problem. You must be still online , so you need to pay mobile data. In developing countries it may be problem too. OK. I must stop writing, I'm really not optimistic But I like a PoDC a lot.
I catch your drift, but I think security and integrity trumps usability in this case. I believe we should do everything possible to keep the system working for tablets and phones, and also, keep it acceissble for people in the unbanked world where they cant afford stakes to use it (IE dont make the rich richer).
Im thinking of ways to make that happen, but so far all I have are two modifications:
1) The "controller" wallet can run on any of your boincing pcs (IE if you send the wallet to the boinc PC, it doesnt necessarily mean your home PC has to stay on), but yes, so far at least one biblepay node has to stay up at all times
2) We can make the coin_amount*age modifier relatively small, but definitely intact. What this would do is going back to the botnet issue, require a mining org to have BBP at stake to receive research rewards. However in sympathy to 3rd world users mining to pay for a loaf of bread, we should require a pretty low stake amount, say < 99,000 bbp or something. (I mean any amount would work, but dont give Huge benefits to people with a lot of coin age, or then the rich get richer). Im thinking CoinAmount*CoinAge*RAC = Reward, but the CoinAmount*CoinAge is limited and capped to something like 7 days of coin age @ 250,000 BBP. Etc.
Im open to suggestions, but driving our price up due to a breakthrough feature, and helping 100,000 orphans is much much more important. If our price goes up, people will find a way to leave a controller wallet running and then mine on multiple tablets
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