I was thinking about the block reward which will be paid to increase motivation to run a node in the first years.
1st question: Is this finally decided now? If so with which details? Makoto wrote 100k XEM per day for 6 years.
2nd question: It could make sense to reduce the node rewards gradually. Is that planned?
I think it's pretty much a go now I think and I think it was 3 years, not 6. It could have been changed though. Consistent amount afaik but reducing the amount over time makes sense I think, but that's on the assumption the price goes up. On the other hand, if the amount stays the sane, the reward goes up as the price does and most likely this would result in an increase of nodes as the Network grows which I think could be a better method.
I think the idea of a block reward is a very good one. As for the exact amount and how long, I guess 100k for 3 years is a good projection. As we all know 3 years in crypto time for a real crypto is a really long time. Just as a comparison NXT at this time last year still didn't even have a usable client. They have come a long way since then.
So the point is that in 1 year NEM should be a lot better than today, and in 3 years, nobody can really know the direction we take.
I think it would be good to just do 100k a day for now and then at the completion of V1 analyze just how much of an effect the node rewards have helped, how much boost does the network need, and so on and then try to figure if it should continue at 100, increase, or do some kind of halving scheme.