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RE: Split the rewards of your posts with other beneficiaries | Only on SteemWhales.com
Any chance you will develop something for easily delegating SP? :)
Also, can you elaborate more on the safety of our posting key when using this function? Thanks!
I could easily do a tool to delegate SP based on SteemJS. But I'm not 100% positive on this feature, I don't really see why we should give tools to inactive users, instead active curators should get rewarded more. I made a post about a curation bot recently that I consider a good alternative to delegating SP. Maybe I'll do it still, I agree it would be used a bunch and it's quite an easy job.
Good question about security. I should have talked about it in the article.
Your key is never sent over the wire (of course), and you can check that with any tool you'd like (chrome F12-> Network), or even WireShark if you are paranoid . Still, even in that case, losing your posting key is not a huge trouble as long as you control the owner key (or password) as a potential stealer could only upvote or post for you, not steal your coins.
For the delegating SP feature, I believe it would require the active key, and that would be a bigger security concern for users.
However, I need to mention that any app that currently asks for your password (steemit, steemconnect/busy, steepshot, esteem, etc) is a bad security practise for STEEM in general. We should be using our posting keys or keys in general to stay safer. As a general rule, my tool will always ask for the lowest credential required for the action requested. That's one of the reasons why I opted for a simple posting key solution for this tool (instead of using for example steemconnect).
Wow, thanks for such a detailed comment! I don't know everything you said but I feel safe and that's enough for me.. :)
I agree with your logic of not giving convenience to inactive users but for most high-stake users they normally have easy access to get this done, so this may only makes less resourceful inactive users less convenient. While SP delegation may still be useful for innovative usage of accounts, not just curating for rewards.
Thanks again for steemwhales.com. It's one of my favorites!