If I won the lottery and powered up?

Tonight, I entered the lottery. I haven't done this for a very long time but it was symbolic.

The prize is 29M Euro which is $36M in oil money. What would I do with 29 million Euros?? I am a simple man with relatively basic needs and even though I would likely buy a decent electric car, house and travel a bit, 29 million??

I have talked about if I was a billionaire before that I would be funding all kinds of crazy and interesting projects. I would predict that my workload would go up even a little more than now but, I would be working on much more fun stuff. But with 29 million euros, that is not enough to be Tony Stark but, I don't need it all and I can still do some good and have some fun.

I wonder, how much STEEM does 15 million Euros get me?

10,508,474 Steem

What would I be able to do with 10 million Steem I wonder... that is 40% larger than Freedom.

Freedom. We love to talk about that here don't we? Do what you want with your stake, the system allows it etc... flag if you wish? I have always asked what happens if a mega whale buys in and with 14 million more euros and simple tastes, it is not like I need the curation returns.

That is ~21 million vests. With that I would be able to send witness #21 into #1 position. I wonder what witnesses would be doing to try and get that kind of vote behind them? I have 30 such votes. What would they be willing to change on the platform?

Quite interesting to think isn't it? Some random dude who wins the lottery can have such an effect on the platform that they can almost choose the top 20 witnesses. What happens if that is a corporation?

What about on platform? I wonder what fun could be had with 21 million vests considering the trouble that 1 TA and a fat whale with 2 million vests has caused? Yeah, that arrangement would come to an end very fast. What could I do with the bidbot situation I wonder...

Trim back rewards of those that use it? Hmmm, no, that might hurt some innocents who haven't done the math. What if I started my own bidbot and employed some manual curators to check content to see if it is worth a vote?

Start a bidbot?? I thought I was against bidbots...

This one would be different as it would be a Not For Profit Bidbot but not only that, it would undercut every other bidbot yet, always guarantee a positive return if the content passes the manual curator muster. Guaranteed profit for quality content. Perhaps I will send the curators a little further afield than just what gets ordered from my bot too... Oooh and every SBD above the decent pay of the curators sent to it would be burned. Gotta protect my Steem investment after all, can't have all that overpriced SBD on the market.

But, that is not really enough is it? Steemit is all about community building. Perhaps I would also run the node building exercise. Contracts with community builders who will get benefits to grow and support the community until a certain point at which, they would have their own support reduced and pass it onto another. Perhaps I would power up another million or two Steem and delegate out to some of them also.

Oh, with 10.5 million Steem, the 100% upvote would be $1318 at current prices. That is 13,000 a day. Perhaps I will just choose 10 community builders per month and upvote them once per day to get them to the ~40K mark in a month and the next month another 10. Within a year there would be at least 120 new mid-range dolphins to support their various communities. Of course, I would be earning a bit of curation on that too. That could go to pay some more manual curators.

There are just so many things possible with that amount isn't there?

I could apply a tax to trending and those who appeared more than once or twice in the week would get bumped down somewhat and have some of their earnings returned to the pool. Or perhaps, I would send my manual curators through there as well to evaluate and report back their findings...

With 14 million on the outside... Perhaps I could hire some data experts to run through and discover all the little bits of nonsense going on and perhaps apply some more taxes on some people who I have decided aren't in the best interest of the platform. People might argue of course that quality is subjective as are good or bad behaviors but, the rule still stands doesn't it? Do as you please with your stake.

I wonder how many other whale's, orcas, dolphins and minnows would actually support me and my 21 million vests? Some might support in hope of favor or out of fear but, perhaps some would support in a clean up process of the platform in the hope it could actually become what it was planned to be or, decide that my vision for the platform is better than the current pathway. Everyone loves vigilante justice right?

I wonder how fast witnesses would find consensus to stop me or would they stick to their guns and say 'the system allows it' so we have to live with it or deal with it as a community.

Of course, I am just playing around here and this is just for a little bit of fun but I do have questions as to what happens if someone does decide to enact their own brand of personalized justice like a 1980's Charles Bronson movie. How do the big fish react when a bigger fish threatens their positions?

Anyway... next week if you see a big spike in the price of Steem... I won ;)

Taraz
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