RE: Do forks with fallback - my HF21 wish
As far as I know, there was a fallback solution.
Impact on User Experience
By measuring more of the critical resource types the blockchain will more accurately price operations in RCs, but that also means that as of right now, resources are not being accurately priced. So after the RC system goes live, the user experience will have to change and the new system will need time to reach a new equilibrium. Due to this uncertainty, we added a “fail safe” to the code that will enable witnesses to revert from the RC system back to the old bandwidth system if absolutely necessary."
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It seems like it wasn't absolutely necessary.
I totally agree to support the guys who know what they does.
And sad part is I'm not sure it's still on equilibrium(?) phase but one of the HF20's goal was to enable more people to sign-up through dApps or high level stakeholders. However since it became freemium there is no other option than powering up the newly created account. This is my alt account with 3SP
It was always freemium. You've always had a cost to operate. That is literally the root of a dPOS system. The revised math here simply attempts to enforce it more accurately.
In the old days, you just had somebody giving you a handout to get you started, and look at the noise and spam that created. Your remark betrays that you do not fully understand what proof of stake means. Not a snarky jab, just a simple fact. It's well documented, beginning with the white paper and 1000s of posts since then. Please investigate, you'll find it quite enlightening.
Thanks for the information, sir. Yes I'm a bit ignorant about crypto and its terms like dpos. As a regular social network user I feel this freemium thing after HF20, when my interaction capabilities down to some numbers. For example we lose that great argument "How much did you earn from facebook so far". or "3 seconds transaction/s (but only once per day if you are new)"Facebook wouldn't mind me spamming, I agree it may help to solve spam but it shouldn't turn this place into where only the rich ones able to talk, I think we are still in equilibration phase, otherwise a newly created account doesn't have any option but powering up. Which kinda hurts the aim of the HF20. AFAIK it suppose to increase the sign-ups via dApps using RCs. However I don't know who would want to put money in day one.
Dang I shouldn't press enter so fast. Now I left with 13 comments with 1200 SP. I'm a little bit tired so I forgot to check what I wrote in the first place, I kinda repeated again. Sorry about that. In the meantime I was looking for games to play because I can't afford to be active enough on the platform.
Yes, the equilibrium phase will help you, in a few days time, but also, a person with less money is not entitled to have equal signage space in times square with a person who can afford to put a sign on every building, and thats probably okay, because that same town square DOES allow the poor person to at least stand there with a sign of his own making, and if his message is solid, someone will help him be seen.... If its just spam, he will not be annoying everyone with giant blinking signs. And that's okay.
I don't think 'equal signage space' is the goal. If new users can't post, comment, and vote, they'll leave.
Whales can post dictionaries. New users don't need that, but they need to be able to engage effectively for Steem to survive.
Bandwidth - the ability to speak - shouldn't be a barrier to nominal engagement. If the result of HF20 is such a barrier, we're about to see the definition of 'death spiral'.
I don't think you understood my comment accurately. But no matter, neither of us can afford this comment thread till the patch and it will all be different then anyway. :D