RE: New Accounts Don't Have Enough SP to Fully Interact with the Blockchain. Should witnesses update the Max Block Size? (Discussion)
Hmm... #3 sounds like a good solution for now - but what happens if Steemit is at 10x the current signups rate?
If we ever hit "the tipping point" and have tens of thousands of new users joining each week for a while - will the increased block size hold up? Or does the same problem repeat itself?
Thank you for sharing this issue, it's an important one. I would encourage a patronage model much like AnonSteem makes possible today. It's far from a perfect solution, but: I strongly disapprove of any plan that involves requiring new users to buy in for themselves, because it veers a bit too close into pyramid scheme vibes at that point.
Plus: If users have to pay for their friends to sign up, while it would slow down adoption, it would have a huge impact on the quality of userbase. Steemit isn't easy - quality users are important.
All just thinking out loud. Thanks for sharing - adding you to my witness vote list now.
The system will have to scale up eventually. That means higher usage, bigger blocks and increased costs for people running nodes. The main question is when and how fast.
Fair point. It certainly won't be easy, but we'll find our way.
@heymattsokol i agree with you because i remember when i joined last week , though i was enjoying the activities of posting and upvoting . then came the mesaage that my voting power is low. I beleive thats was when steem fell down in the currency chat, so i have to power up my SP. Now not because am compel to but because i knew the importance in the future. But for new users to be compel to always power up, itwont make a cut here ..they will not understand but just say is a pyramid stuff. So i dont support first powering up fee for fresh users.