First of all RC is free. Sure, it is a byproduct of vesting and VESTs are subject to inflation (well, liquid HIVE is as well, however you can sell it immediately, while VESTs are harder to escape from when their value decreases due to printing of new HIVE). But I don't feel "spending" RC is really paying for activity on blockchain. The system is just a way of persuading those that have too little of it to maybe invest couple of dollars in HIVE. If you are asking if it would be possible to invent RC-like token that would reflect a cost of running blockchain infrastructure, then the closest would be HBD. HBDs reflect fiat dollars and those can be used to pay for computers and power bills. Using HBD to pay fees for transactions would be like paying banks for debit card issuance or making money transfers - it functions in real world so it could also function on Hive. That would change the financial model though, since now transactions are (pseudo) free. I feel like changing "free" to paid would not be well received :o)
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No, no, I'm not thinking at all about changing the RC model. I'm just thinking about possibilities for creating a different kind of stablecoin than the ones in existence. Right now, all stablecoins are designed to follow the value of fiat money. What is fiat money based on? Governments, oil, things like that. So the crypto stablecoins are dependent on those things also. I am just wondering if it would be possible to create a stablecoin that is fundamentally based on something else, such as the cost of computation. Something like a unit of computation that all products and services can be priced in.