Farming Rewards, free space for new users, and processing power rewards

[russell]

Also, adding this:

@russell

I mentioned this somewhere else, but what’s stopping me from writing an application on my computer that just creates hundreds/thousands of accounts, and then just manages those accounts? A file system manager that treats the thousands of accounts like one master account to the end user. Then I distribute that app for free. Think of a Bitcoin wallet managing multiple addresses, but instead its Maidsafe tokens/accounts.

@fergish

I think compared to the very minimal amount that added storage should cost, that this would be a generally unattractive and complex approach. We’ll see what the resource pricing works out as, but I’m expecting the value of safecoin go up while the cost of storage goes down, making it not so attractive to cheat.

The attack vector is the only thing I have attention on along the lines of what you’re saying. I think that that may be a case for smaller initial free cap. That’s a different animal. But even so, I think 250 Mb would be small enough yet give someone enough to be getting on with while starting to use the network.