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RE: Understanding The Importance and The Real Roles Of Witnesses.
Nice one Jack, and it's a little loaded at the top for sure but I don't think that's sustainable in the long-term.
Even in the 6 weeks, I've been focussed on witnesses movements I've seen a number of community-based witnesses make significant inroads towards the top 20.
It won't be long before you'll need to prove you're worthy of a continuing witness vote rather than just earning it by default.
IMHO the proxy vote is the biggest scam ever and allows people to game the system even more.
Can you imagine if people used proxy votes in everyday politics?
The proxy system suits corporations, not decentralized systems. People shouldn't have more power than their own vote.
Yes, I addressed that "proxy" topic along with a few others in a previous post.
It is rather confusing for many Steemians and my thought trail behind this post was to try and relate it to something that people are more familiar with.
One of the biggest issues I see here is that the Proof of Brain concept was but aside to the Proof of Stake (POS) concept and all the usual flaws that the POS concept brings with it, powered by "greed" make things a lot harder for everyone.
So, presenting the issues in ways that people can understand is obviously one of the most important tasks we have.
Dead voters, dead witness servers, proxy voting, no freedom of speech in the governance setup (as shown above), POS taking precedence over Proof of Brain and the list goes on.
All of these topics need to be addressed and made public, no beating around the bush so to say, need to address each of them directly and openly if we want things to start moving forwards as per the initial vision described in our Whitepaper.