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RE: Only one Crypto thing to discuss today right?
I agree with you that PoW protocols are designed to fork organically if there is a divergence in views of the best way forward.
DPoS protocols don't have that, although I guess there is nothing stopping someone taking a snapshot of the blockchain and creating a new chain.
I see the balance as being between experimentation vs stability/ security - ideally I like to see blockchains mature to a point where changes to are limited to troubleshooting vulnerabilities and implementing scaling solutions... else it becomes difficult to build enterprises on constantly shifting sand.
Sure, yes, I appreciate the issues there - in Steem's case, practically, this probably means making test forks and allowing the community to experiment with them. To my knowledge this has never occurred and we only have competing networks that started with forks that are totally disconnected from Steem.
Well... I believe there was a plan for a testnet in January for people to test the SMTs changes... that's something at least.
When I asked Ned last week, it was "all on track", I guess now it's being torpedoed!
Oh yes, we do have a testnet afaik for testing Hard Forks - but the forks are always just packaged by steemit inc. and never really altered much. It would be great to see community lead fork options - that would inspire a lot of people I think.