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RE: [AUCTION] I'm selling my POCKET TOKENS!! Here is why
Your post says 1,000,001 tokens, but @pocket-a tells us you only have 1,000,000. I suspect you spent one of the original tokens on your confirmation message when you typed confirm. One token is basically dust, but it might be worth updating the quantity in the original post. :)
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Cool. :) This is the largest lot of pocket anybody has offered to sell yet by a long shot; I'll be very curious to see how much you get.
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A heartfelt "meep" and good day to you, sir/madam.
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Well, it all depends on the visibility I manage to get ;)
Yeah... I'd love to help promote your sale, but I've got to be careful not to appear to be pumping POCKET, particularly not before genesis ends in a week and a half.
Don't worry.
Btw, I'm new to steem, and I'm starting to notice that what you are proposing is missing. But I believe the way you proposed is too overcomplicated.
What do you think about my points?
When I wrote the MIST post, it was to lay the groundwork for Pocket, which is to lay the groundwork for more interesting stuff in the future. By the definitions I gave in the MIST post, Pocket is itself a MIST. It's a set of rules (the pocket protocol) that define some function (claiming and sending tokens).
What did I propose? I'm not quite clear if you're talking about Pocket, the MIST thing, or something else. I didn't really propose much in the MIST post except a conceptual framework.
Maybe so. How would you improve it?
The MIST "meta-protocol" is simple and ok. The problem is in my option that whatever protocol one wants to implement should be done on the blockchain by modifying that protocol, not by using the text of the post as an instruction.
It's the implementation of the protocol in Pocket that I believe is the wrong way to solve the problem. I understand that this is the only way to do it without the consensus of all the community, that's why I believe that the discussion should be done with the steem development team.
Ah, I see. So - building it into the core Steem code would be great, but would be much harder to do. Partly because of political reasons, partly because I don't write C++ and am not really interested in learning. If I had to wait for that, Pocket wouldn't exist for sure.
There's a middle option called Steem "plugins," where you can create a module that isn't part of the core code, but that the Steem witnesses can run optionally. It's how resteems, follows, and maybe reputation are implemented on Steem.
That would be a much better way to do it, but doing it exactly right wasn't my goal here at all. I intentionally made a lot of suboptimal decisions because I wanted to prove that you could build a token using comments alone. Taking the existing interfaces and making something entirely new with them seemed like a really cool challenge. I wanted to show people they could do something that maybe wasn't obviously possible, to expand their minds about what might be possible. We'll see if it works.
Using text of posts is absolutely a bad way to do what I'm doing, and unless this is wildly popular and changes the world, it will probably be the last time I do that. But it's also the only way to do it that doesn't require building a new interface.
I had a great discussion about some of this stuff with @picokernel over on the announcement post, might be interesting to you if you're interested in the technical side of it.