The more I get into this, the better it seems. Invictus and their sharedropping technique can never be accomplished via mining unless done in a way similar to this. Gives a real reason to buy and hold knowing competition needs to sharedrop on these tokens.
I can actually see sparkle as a means of replacing hybrid pow/pos as it is today. Pow/dpos is the future for miners.
Proof of Stake always has the initial ownership problem to solve.
I personally like Sparkle despite being proof of work. If it will bring BitShares to the attention of POW die hards that won't buy into anything else then I welcome it. We certainly wouldn't win them over any time soon without Sparkle.
I would just advise sparkles to be careful with the fork management with our code. POW has many more forks than DPOS and our fork management code is less robust that may be required for a POW system.
I would recommend this community look at Sparkles as an advertising/marketing play and help this guy out. We all are getting an initial cut in it so it isn't a threat to us personally if we hold/help. It could actually boost BitShares and/or fill a market segment that we do not / cannot occupy. Why leave money on the table.
If we don't support Sparkle then someone could take Sparkle and do a 0% pre-mine and we would get nothing.
Lets make the best of Sparkle.