RE: Comparing Steemit And Ethereum: Some Thoughts
It will never stop to amaze me how you can get +100 votes but only 25 view and one relevant comment. Anyway I am answering your comparison here, since I am more familiar with the technical details of Ethereum than Steemit.
Btw, you put an "s" on my name the second time ;-)
I have to admit I missed the documentation on Homestead but anyway, Ethereum has a lot of documentation, from the code, the wiki (not always up to date though), they website. They have a white paper, a real one. They have a yellow paper, for the technical details.
Steemit has a thing they called white paper that mix everything from economics to security. Just why?! We would have benefit greatly if they made like 3 different papers so average users, investors or/and coders would know where to look for. After reading Statoshi's paper on Bitcoin, you cannot not follow his path, with clarity and simplicity.
If I spend the same amount of time under the hood of Steemit, I won't have the same level of understanding.
Last, on the contract and gas, you have to compare having the whole platform being controlled by a blockchain or by some middle-man. For instance Steemit.com can decide to censored who they want, you would still see trace on steemd.com but you would only have busy.org to see it. The average user doesn't know how to download the whole blockchain and explore it.
In general I would prefer a model where end-users don't need to pay( I don't know what is the process for synero). I am very much into decentralization but I also like the trade-off of Steemit. Unfortunately, I don't think that Steemit has a big advantage as the first social platform on a blockchain. I feel like users will be very prompt to switch to next thing, because they more or less know what to expect and look for.
Again thanks for your post ;-)
Regarding your statement:
The 100+ votes were mostly bot votes who were voting at 1% voting power (observed this on steemdb.com). I suspect the 25 views is close to the number of humans that clicked on the link to this blog post. As for the relevant comment, I suppose it's a great deal better than none, but it would be nice to have a regular following firing a boatload of comments at me. 😎
On considering your recent commentary, I thought I might suggest collaboration toward some documentation for the beginning Steemian. I had been into delving into Steemit, but like you , I was disappointed by the lack of easily digested documentation etc. The world needs a Steemit for Dummies book.😞
In brief, I felt we are on a similar wavelength and if we both figure out Steemit in collaboration it might save much time and effort. We could create a series of blog posts providing a hands on guide of what's under the hood in the Steemit machine and split any rewards or apportion them with fair percentages. What are your thoughts?🤔
I like that idea... a lot!
In your recent post you said that one of your objectives is a:
On a similar note, I would like to see a "DIY Hello World Steemit Tool". While not an earth shattering engineering feat in itself, it would create a shell within which a novice could branch out and develop more sophisticated programs, assuming they have some basic programming skills. They have something similar for Ethereum.
How far along are you in your study of the Steemit platform? In other words, could you get Steemit to print "Hello World" as a Steemit Tool?
Finally, if you prefer, we can talk on the phone because it is faster to exchange ideas or we can continue correspondence too. Then there is also Discord and other speech mechanisms. We might even pull others with similar objectives into the venue and produce a document. Or, co-author a Google Doc. I've used them to collaborate on papers before and it is quite good.
we could use busy.org if you are there. If not I have been introduced to Discord very recently. I see we are not on the same time zone as I live in France.
Busy.org sounds fine. We can chat on the #steemit channel there to discuss what direction we want to go...
Assuming you are in UTC or UTC+1 (I'm UTC-7) and keep normal hours, 1500UTC to 2000UTC is our optimal window of opportunity for chatting.