RE: STEEM Economic Changes Update (@officialfuzzy's thoughts & concerns)
The proposed changes do precisely that--alienate certain people...with your most valuable ones...the ones who actually power up, being the ones hurt by this. I go back to this point because if there is going to be a hardfork that so foundationally shakes steem community to the core, it should be done with the knowledge of this fact.
But what concerns me most is that these gold nuggets we call long term thinkers within community not only will be upset by these changes, but will potentially have theor energy turned against steem.
To me the worst idea is to anger people who could have been our biggest advertisers and participants through the hard times, and turn their energy against us...
I am wondering though what you mean by dan naysaying. It has little to do with naysaying as i put in the very beginning of my post. If you are talking about other people talking down to dan, it is because they have seen this type of stuff before. Big changes like these bring out old memories of big changes that didnt go so well in the past.
And like i said before and cant say enough--give people like tone vays fuel for their firepit.
Thanks for responding and i look forward to more discussion.
P.S. it is less about marketinf and much more about the blockchain changing rules so abruptly and starkly in contrast to the original model that brought is to a 400 mil marketcap. I personally think we will get back there without changes...but big changes will potentially lose more users than it will gain. And as stated before...these are not normal users...but the among the most loyal and resilient to boot. If im gonna makr enemies...id prefer them to be the type of perso who is weak and gives up quickly. sp holders are not that demographic.
Only long term thinkers that don't understand how steemit works will be upset since the new changes will reduce the inflation slightly on steem power holders, so they will benefit from such change.
You know how many BTC brought the market cap to these levels? About 600 BTC. Basically when there is no liquidity you can shoot the price up very easily with very little money but it is a false representation which is why it went back to it's pre spike level.
In a healthy system you would have price consolidation phases, which means the price will find a bottom higher than where it started, from there it would go higher and so on, thats how a real marketcap builds up.
However similar amount invested by @hendrikdegrote could just stop the downtrend for a few days, didn't it ?
Not sure what you're saying. But no one in the 'community' is my investor unless they are on the Steemit Inc cap table. In Steem there is only the community of Steem holders (SP, SD, Steem). And only SP holders have blockchain-level voting rights for Witnesses (and through their proxy, upgrades).
If we are finding opinions by channeling Tone Vays, the guy who doesn't believe Steem is a blockchain, then I'm sorry we are getting nowhere.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
No. Im saying there is an army of people like him and this will just make it harder to combat them. Whether or not you or I like it, toney and people like him will actually have something to point to. Its like givig ammo to your enemy when you are at your weakest (aka pissing off many people who have powered up and paid in blood sweat and tears for it.
As for who your investors are, your definition and the market's may not be the same. I hope for the stake of all steemit and those working hard on it yours is the correct perception. I think its wrong though. Piss off the community enough and see what happens. This isnt a threat. Ive simply seen it all before.
Break the contract once. Breaking trust once is all it takes. I dont care who says otherwise...this is not how it will belooked at.
Final point. What happens if, after another 6 months steemit needs to completely change what makes it steem again? How many big changes will it survive without a large community sharig the weight and believing in the vision?
I dont have a dog in this fight. I have only beem there since day 4 of PTS and right on the field for every piece of history that gives me a background and opinion that should carry some weight.
This, to me, is making the same kinds of mistakes we did in the past. Changing the foundation of steem should be a last resort. Are we at the point of last resorts?