The Economics of safecoin

[Blindsite2k]

@dyamanaka

lternative Freemium Model

Make the NSL (Network Storage Limit) based on Farm Rank. This partially emulates the POR system without slowing down the Network. Users who contribute a lot of resources should gain more storage space. If we assume most of our users will be farmers in the beginning, we should let them store as much as possible! I doubt farmers would spend their safecoin on storage.
Because of #1 above, the farmers will set what the Network Average will be. Now we have an effective starting point. Farmers farm each others data, and also farm free users data as well. All accounts start at Farm Rank 0, with the ability to increase their NSL by increasing their Rank.
The Network also charges safecoin to increase storage above the NSL. This is the premium service for large data storage.
Farm Ranking SystemRank 0 = ADS x 0.01 (Users is not contributing any resources)Rank 1 = ADS x 0.5 (Small Farms)Rank 2 = ADS (Average Data Stored) (Common Farms)Rank 3 = ADS x 2 (Reliable Large Farm)Rank 4 = Unlimited (Specialized Super Farm, Vital for the Network)

Example… Assume the Average Data stored was 500Gb.Rank 0 = 5Gb (Users is not contributing any resources)Rank 1 = 250Gb Rank 2 = 500GbRank 3 = 1000GbRank 4 = Unlimited (Specialized Farmer, Vital for the Network)

Google Drive is offering 15Gb free.We offer 5Gb free with the ability to leap to 250Gb with a small farm. If user has a common farm, then 500Gb A reliable large farm, 1000Gb A super farm, Unlimited

I like this. It’s simple and easy to understand. I would note though that it would be good to have the NSL, NR, ADS and such be displayed somewhere clearly for the user in a kind of HUD somewhere as they would be important stats to keep track of. Also I’m curious, why would one lose NSL if maidsafe just makes references for de-duplicated files? Like if I’m uploading 50-100gb of music and 90% of that ends up getting deduplicated because it’s already been uploaded by various other people then shouldn’t my NSL only be deducted for the remaining 10%? I mean if deduplification works like the way I’m describing it wouldn’t that mean mining would require one add original data in order to mine safecoin?