More on Witness Voting
I just wrote this long response to a comment asking about voting and thought I might as well publish it as a post since I believe that many still have questions about it. Also, yesterday, I listened to a conversation between Justin Sun and some of the witnesses. they asked him to remove the votes on the 20 brand new witnesses that he set up. Now, at least 8 hours later - and a business day in his part of the world, that hasn't happened.
I have a feeling that many on Steem are voting for the fake witnesses right now because the word used to be to vote for number this to that. Let's make sure everyone voted for actual Steem witnesses - not for the take over ones.
Hope this helps.
Justin Sun bought Steemit - which is one of the frontends that run on the Steem blockchain. With that, he bought a bunch of Steem which was supposed to be used to pay for development on the blockchain. It is millions and millions of Steem.
The way witnesses go up in the ranking is based on the SP the voting accounts have. If you have a lot - you as one person can vote in witnesses and then do whatever you want instead of the community having a say in it.
The witnesses were concerned about this kind of misuse since Justin did not agree to communicate with them. The issued a soft fork to temporarily freeze the known accounts Steemit Inc was holding.
Justin got mad and convinced three exchanges to power up the steem they were holding - their customers steem - and vote in 20 witnesses he set up - basically computers run by him or his team. He promised the exchanges that he was going to do a hardfork on Steem that you can power down in one day - since it was not their Steem but that of their customers.
The community noticed what is going on and started to vote. Many people either didn't bother to vote for witnesses, didn't use all their 30 votes, or had a lot of votes going to witnesses far down from the top 20 - the top 20 are the decision-makers.
Many changed their votes to vote for the top-ranked that had a chance to make it into the top 20. We needed at least 4 to prevent a hardfork. Right now, we have 7.
These are the top witnesses we have in right now.
These are the ones you do not want to vote for
There are 20 all with the same setup. All of them are running version 0.22.5 as you can see. Do NOT vote for any of them and if you already did by accident, please remove your vote.
These screenshots are taken from steempeak where you can vote for witnesses. You can also vote on steemworld.org.
Just put your username with an @
https://steemworld.org/@ your user name
We, at the Freewritehouse account, are voting for the top Steem witnesses (and about 5 others further down). If you want, you can go to Account Details and enter freewritehouse as your proxy.
Just click on change proxy, enter freewritehouse, confirm with your active key - done...
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Thank you for taking the time to write this up. We need as many people as possible talking about it.
I’ve been reaching out to old friends on discords among other places to let them know what is going on as well. It’s understandable many are taking a break or are just busy with real life they might not have time to notice what is going on.
Have a great day!
Thank you. Yes, I think we all need to keep posting about it and reach out through other social media...
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Nice detailed description thanks Marianne it will help those who are not sure.
Thank you!! and thank you for tweeting it :)
It took a little but I updated my votes. I had not used all 30 and had some dead votes, too. Thanks @mariannewest.
Hi Marianne, I'm sorry that this has happened and that everyone is having to go through all of these problems. I'm sure that it will all be over eventually and reason will win out in the end. I had always planned to come back to Steemit and what we started at the Freewritehouse but I did not anticipate two years of bear market and all the rest of what has transpired the last few years and weeks. With all that's going on here and other options and opportunities available I've decided to power down as soon as possible and move what little capital tied up in Steem that I have remaining and invest it in other projects. I love you and all the freewriters dearly and I hope that you can all forgive me for seeking other opportunities in this rapidly changing blockchain world. I hope that one day we can all get together again and have a few laughs like in the old days. All the best, Lee.
I totally understand that you have to go where things are better. Is the sports site still working out for you? I just am not interested in sports - unless I am actually doing it and never got the hang of it. Wishing you all the best. Btw, @ntowl is working on a website to stay connected. Maybe we will meet up there...
Thank you for all your support.
And let us know where you are hanging out - maybe we all end up joining you :)
In my opinion the best option for you right now would be Uptrennd, I'm currently over there right now building an account and they have just added a lot of new communities including one for writers. I believe that you could work out a way to continue the freewrites there, but it might be a good idea for everyone to at least open an account on Uptrennd because it doesn't hurt a thing and it will put you in the loop to keep up with what is happening on that platform. I like Uptrennd because it has a very unusual economic model with a deflationary economy that is self balancing, I can't explain it so you will just have to investigate for yourself. Uptrennd is not fully decentralized though and I have no idea what kind of time frame we might be looking at for full decentralization if ever, so that must be a consideration.
I'm doing great on Scorum and I still believe that it is possibly one of the greatest investment opportunities of our time. I'm am not all that into sports myself but I have found a way to stay active and build a great account anyway. There are others there from Steemit who are doing likewise, there are ways that people who are not big sports fans can still participate. The big influx of money on Scorum has yet to happen because development has been slowed by the bear market and because blockchain adoption has slowed to a snails pace. But they have developed technology for the gambling industry that is at least a year more advanced than any potential competitors and it would cost them millions of dollars to catch up. Once they have enough funding to complete this aspect of the platform to include all live major sporting events and the gambling community begins to understand the game changing technology, then the demand for Scorum coins (SCR) and the use cases for it will expand enormously. So here again, it costs nothing to open an account on Scorum and for people to get their foot in the door before market conditions change and adoption begins to pick up speed again. I asked our CEO this morning if he could provide any incentives or at least let the Steem community know that we are still alive on Scorum and that our future looks bright, so I hope that he posts a message on Steem sometime in the near future. I worry that he may not feel very diplomatic about doing so and it may come off like he is trying to hurt Steem, and I know that he would never want to do that because he has always believed in this community and supported the work here on Steem, as have I.
Here is my Uptrennd referral link, I would really appreciate all who use it and help me build my account over there. https://www.uptrennd.com/signup/MTc0NQ
If anyone from the Free Write House joins Scorum and verifies through you and your Scorum account I will send them 50 SCR to help get them started.
thank you. I still have an account on Scorum - have to find my passwords and such. And will check out the other one - but as you know, there are only so many hours in a day...
Absolutely, and whats worse is that I have a one track mind, I can only keep up with one thing and if I try to do more like I've been doing for the last few weeks I end up confused and find myself making lots of mistakes.
Here is another initiative on Uptrennd that I had not heard of, this is a great deal! https://www.uptrennd.com/post-detail/huge-welcome-bonus-for-the-steemit-community~MjIwMDcy#postMzQ5Mjgx
Thank you!! Doing it now :)
Is your name the same on uptrennd?
"Pete Pierson" on Uptrennd and just "Pete" on Scorum.
I think I'm good with my votes now @mariannewest 🙏
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nice list! i have some same witnesses in my list
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