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RE: My First Reaction To HardFork 20, "Velocity" - Proposing Mining via Proof of Burn and Proof of Transaction
All due respect to your superior understanding of how blockchains work and the things witnesses do to maintain the blockchain, but I take SERIOUS, SERIOUS issue with a couple of the things you suggest - because I think it will be a total disaster for SteemIt with it's continued ability to grow:
Making people wait for a WEEK to sign up?!?! Talk about a TOTAL LACK OF PUBLIC RELATIONS...
$10,000 for an "immediate" account creation?!?! That's just about THE most GREEDY-sounding thing I have ever heard anyone say on SteemIt - EVER.
I had you down as a Witness - as a write in. I love your SteemSupply site. But, after this, I'm going to make sure you are taken off of my list of votes. You might be intelligent, but you are not wise.
I would suggest to read again the HF proposal and my suggestions :))) There is no greed as the money are actually burned, it's not taken by the blockchain or ne. That made me smile :)
And at the moment there is a HUGE problem with people abusing Steem and creating thousands of accounts to get free Steem. Throttling the account creation for the scammers is one goal of the HF20. And the week before the user actually starts using the blockchain could be spent in an omboarfung process, with one tutorial per day.
That way we'll make sure everybody understands how the network works and we don't run into a massive confusion like your post suggest you're in.
Peace!
seems like a better way to curb abuse would be an account verification system that rewards a user if they submit a questionable account. or perhaps make steemit a one person one account tied to their national ID card or drivers license... woud go far in curbing false accounts....
Upvoting for the anti-spam proposal, but I don't like the link between the ID and the account because of it been a privacy problem.
Linking any official identification with an account would be useful for social media platforms like Google+ or Facebook. I would really like it. People would stop saying many fool things there.
But in the context of a free speech platform like Steem, that proposal is not interesting.
There has got to be a happy medium somewhere between waiting for 1 week and paying $10,000 for immediate account creation.
A nominal fee of, say, $10 - or 5 Steem - would chase out the creation of the vast majority of the "free accounts" and spammers. It would also be a great way for people already on the inside to "sponsor" real, actual people into the platform to help ensure the creation of real accounts by real people.
I joined in May and got 10 Steem, immediately. I don't know if that was a promotion from SteemIt, or @marketreport, or what the deal was - but it was a great help. Then, I saw all of these accounts start cashing out their Steem Power. I went on my rant and told them how dumb they were being: https://steemit.com/steemit/@bi5h0p/how-to-get-yourself-unfollowed-on-steemit I have managed to take my 10 Steem and turn it into 50 Steem, so far. Up until 2 months ago, I only used computers for gaming - so I saw no reason not to take my useless waste of time and direct it towards more constructive activities. Even a complete idiot knows you don't cash out your initial investment after making your first $20.
I'm not sure what "burning" $10,000 is, in regard to SteemIt account creation, but if somebody went to the trouble to actually deposit that amount of money for the immediate creation of an account, you did nothing to convince me that it was a wise investment, or that somebody didn't actually pocket that money somewhere else. I mean, who just burns $10,000, besides the Joker?
"Omboarfung process?" I was a Medical Lab. Technician in the Army - and I never had the pleasure of coming across a description of that particular life-form. What is that, again?
Feel free to convince me, again, why I should be voting for you as a Witness? I'm all for what's good for Steem, but I'm still not convinced you know the best way forward.
Spamming account creation is a major concern. No one wants to see inactive accounts and even bots, to me, are extremely annoying. If the goal of Steem is to reward users for creating and curating good content, there has to be something done to curtail this issue and fast.
Since the beggining of being in Steemit I always have been thinking that the platform is giving people free money and that could make more people wanting to create an account here.
People needs Steem Power to interact with other users. And that seems to be the reason of giving free money to them.
I would suggest to just create accounts, waiting for the user to create some real content and, after a time, giving the money to them as it is done already now.
Steem Power is a must especially starting out. That is a reasonable offer for new users to stick with the platform in the short term.