TN: Adjust starting balances

relativityboy commented 6 years ago

As a user of an account on the testnet that was created on Mainnet, my initial Testnet balance may be so low that my account has no utility. Make all accounts coming from Mainnet with Mainnet balances that have significant utility, still have useful-sized balances on Testnet *so that the holders of those accounts can use them to utilize the Testnet.

AC

[x] in # Results describe what needs to be done so starting balances on the Testnet are such that the above is true.

mvandeberg commented 6 years ago

This might not be as straightforward. On main net my account, vandeberg has 1413848.769112 VESTS. On test net the account only has 189.514421 VESTS. Because of the vote dust threshold this means the account cannot vote.

inertia186 commented 6 years ago

When we ran the full snapshot for the current testnet deploy, these are the numbers we use to determine proportionality:

total_vests: 392969144534573479
total_steem: 72337453156
total_vesting_steem: 194048993790
total_port_balance: 200000000000
total_port_vesting: 145689028885
total_port_liquid: 54309858023
vest_conversion_factor: 370739
steem_conversion_factor: 750784768519

~Option A~

~Try a higher total_port_balance in txgen.conf. This option has already been merged into master and will apply to the next testnet deploy. We're going to double total_port_balance to 400000000000.~

~Doubling total_port_balance would give us a new vest_conversion_factor:~

total_vests: 392969144534573479
total_steem: 72337453156
total_vesting_steem: 194048993790
total_port_balance: 400000000000
total_port_vesting: 291378868601
total_port_liquid: 108620018307
vest_conversion_factor: 741480
steem_conversion_factor: 1501573715524

We cannot double total_port_balance without changing the compiler value STEEM_INIT_SUPPLY, which is off the table.

Option B

We could also adjust the txgen.conf option called min_vesting_per_account, which is currently set to 0.001 TESTS. We could set it to just over the dust threshold.

inertia186 commented 6 years ago

Option C

Re-proportion total_vests when there are large accounts that get a haircut on account_create_operation.

Related to #112, certain accounts could not be created because their vesting_shares exceeded STEEM_MAX_ACCOUNT_CREATION_FEE. Applying a maximum in tinman fixes #112 so those accounts can now be created but in doing so, changed the proportions so that porter ended up with a large unallocated balance.

For this option, when calculating total_vests, we should also apply STEEM_MAX_ACCOUNT_CREATION_FEE so that total_vests is adjusted. This affects vest_conversion_factor of tinman as well, such that the txgen proportions become:

total_vests: 224511100097450018
total_steem: 71947828278
total_vesting_steem: 193061497510
total_port_balance: 200000000000
total_port_vesting: 145700875997
total_port_liquid: 54298043584
vest_conversion_factor: 648969
steem_conversion_factor: 754686345419

inertia186 commented 6 years ago

Result: Recommend Option C

steemit / tinman