I agree. The primary purpose of GRC is to reward research.

PoS interest is causing the danger of mass inflation. DPoR payout is capped at~48k GRC while interest has no cap and with he new protocol creates a far greater percentage of GRC than DPoR. There are many conversations taking place. One in #poll-drafts on slack is discussing removing the reward for PoS altogether along with fixed block rewards and general PoS/DPoR intricacies.

I am in favor of 0%-0.2% interest, depending on how the math works out. I will be expanding on this idea soon... if I find the time.

Unfortunately, many of the current protocols greatly favor investors over crunchers. That is not the system I signed up for either. Keep the conversation going and don't be afraid to speak up. There are no bad ideas.

Hive account@bullshark what you just said about why the poor get poorer is out of place and frankly, pretty ignorant. With regards to GRC, I do not think we should build our protocols on such assumptions.

Further:

You have to have a lot of capital to purchase mining hardware

This is why we target existing Idle Processing Potential. There is no need for mom, dad, and grandma to go purchase a GPU. They already have enough IPP in their house to contribute to BOINC. We need to build protocols which help cover the expenses of directing IPP toward BOINC.