RE: Sharing UPVU Proxy Witness Vote Results(Updated. 2022/4/17)
I don't know much about steem.history, but I know that he is a developer and he currently works on something to reward Steem devs with delegations. rnt1 is the main witness of the steemzzang team (steemzzang.com). newsteem.witness is a node provider and developer as well. If I remember correctly, he planned to provide kind of a Steem lottery in the near future.
I don't see any possible sock puppet accounts in the top other than parse and scissor.sisters and I guess they would not be in there, if real witnesses like roadofrich, starlord, marcosdk and cotina would receive more support. They don't get to the top, because xpilar and steem-supporter are blocking them with their proxy.
In my opinion it's clear what needs to be done to bring us further.
Couple things here...
First of all xpilar and team are also real witnesses, so not sure why they would not be included in your "real witness" category.
Second of all, how would them receiving witness votes cause sock puppets like scissor.sisters and parse to be in the Top 20?! That literally makes no sense... Again, having as many Top 20 Witnesses with differing ideas, locations, and abilities is ideal for a secure network, even if you happen to not like one or two of them. Having several of the Top 20 Witnesses run by the same person or group of people is not ideal for security in any way shape or form.
So, which of their (at least 4) witnesses they are running is the real one? Ok, let's say xpilar is a real witness. I still would prefer to have more real developers, who are capable of more than just forking existing Hive projects, in the top. They are the ones who need more STEEM to realize their projects. Xpilar's team already earns quite well even without the witness.
I don't control them, but I would say the sock puppet accounts are currently in the top to prevent witnesses that have proven themselves to be a security risk for Steem users from reaching the upper ranks.
What I mean is that their proxy doesn't support real developers as soon as those reach the rank above their own. For example, they initially supported starlord but removed the vote just to reach a higher rank. It shows that it's not about getting as many real witnesses in to the top ranks, just about being in the top themselves.
On a completely unrelated note...
The Debt Ratio of SBDs to STEEM has now gone over 10%, which means no more SBDs are being printed. The only way this changes is if the price of STEEM rises or if the number of SBDs decreases. Which means... this is probably as good of a time as any to start using the DAOs SBDs to buy and burn STEEM, which would either raise the price of STEEM and/or lower the price of SBDs under a dollar to where we can use the conversion feature to convert the SBDs to STEEM thus decreasing the total supply of SBDs and getting the debt ratio back under 10% again...
Thoughts?
so you mean everybody needs to support those witnesses who are in a closed discord group .. and the community don't know what's going on in there !! We have supported real witness and one of them is yourself . !! We wont and will never will support anyone who has ganged up against us !! It seems like you are no more in a Neutral instance and joined the gang ? Why is that so just to retain your position on the #1 ?
That is exactly what the other witnesses are doing as well... they are trying to ensure they have their seat at the table to earn as much as possible via sock puppets etc. If that is how everyone is going to think, I'd prefer we'd have as many unique witnesses with different locations, ideas, expertise as we can possibly get...
This is major hyperbole... how would getting xpilar or steem.supporter in the Top 20 represent a security risk?! The bigger security risk is having one person controlling several of the Top 20 accounts and centralizing the chain, like the already known sock puppet witnesses we have talked about...
Apart from all this, why is being a developer a requirement to be a STEEM witness? I do agree that it is a bonus if they are, but it is probably just as important that they be in different physical locations with differing opinions and ideals. The development on steem over the past year has been almost non existent, even from those you say are supposedly working on projects...