So you say that thanks to upgrading to LTM I'll pay 10 BTS fee instead of 5 BTS fee.
Not a very attractive offer. If I was a non-advanced user, I'd never buy LTM. There will be practically no demand for it among non-advanced users.
LTM pay 5 instead of 10. 50% reduction
The point is: there is a certain level (e.g. 12 BTS) and if we set the flat transfer fee below this level, there is no way referral business, targeted to non-advanced users, can count on any income from LTM.
If they are fine with that, I'm fine with it too.
My example was just an example.
The point is that with low fee, the business's owner himself can really decide what fee apply.
If he, like you, thinks that his business can make more money charging a standard fee of 12 BTS (or 15, or 30) and than "sell" the available discount for LTM, he is free to do so!
Instead, with an higher fee on the network side, he lose that freedom.
Indeed, I can see that kenCode is already drifting in this direction - he does not treat LTM as the basis of his income any more.
(So why did he attack bitcrab's 1BTS proposal so passionately? There must have been some misunderstanding.)
I think kencode did not really understand what that proposal meant for his business. He probably do not know how many things he could do on top of bts and on top of the basic fee asked from the network.
I also think that unrational fear and personal attacks on bitcrab led others to continue to react very aggressively...
There was no reason at all to speak about "forking bts", "destroying bts", "destroying the referral program", "replacing all the committee members", "replacing the witnesses" and so on.
...and I am very sad that some of this absurd statements that led to an higher sense of fear, come from some committee member too...
But I think and hope we all have overcome that now!