RE: @ned - are we on the verge of a Steemtrain wreck? Answer NO - BUT THERE ARE STILL VALID CONCERNS
Thank you for posting benjojo.
Lack of communication at Steemit is a problem. Lack of leadership is a problem. Allowing bully accounts to dictate policy is a problem.
There are many high powered accounts in a state of change.....whether it is renting out SP, delegating SP or powering down.....this activity alone should indicate there is a problem. If there is no benefit to having great amounts of SP.....then there is no incentive to having great amounts of SP.
The latest HF has resulted in people for the most part voting in terms of percentage rather than value. What is the gain in having SP?
Have tried to contact you in chat.....benjojo not found is the message.
Elf spice has said.... he is loki...if that assists.
Thank you for opportunity to think on these things.
All the best to you. Cheers.
I felt I had to post this. The lack of comms is really really bad. I have absolutely no idea why they would allow it to get to this. After all, it's so easy to communicate on steemit.
I think the HF19, as I think @dan and @aggroed (among others) predicted, was a mistake. I was all for it becuase I thought it would be fairer.....shows what I know!
This is sue though, if it is real and the lack of transparency is really concerning. I hope they address it now.
Not sure why you couldn't get me on chat?? I am not often in there but I'm supposed to get e-mail notifications and my account is definitely working last time I checked!
cheers bud.
I don't think we should blame hf19. Block chain based data systems are relatively new. Steem is an experiment as is Bitcoin. Whose to say bitcoin will be able to keep up with its growth and the nodes will just need too much disk space to work in say twenty years?
Bitcoin has been running for eight years. It has worked this long and that gives confidence. Steem has worked two years and yes in order to do anything interesting the straight forward approach means you need an RPC node. I feel elfspice is sincere but that doesn't mean he is correct and if he is incorrect it doesn't mean he is insincere.
I am not blaming HF19 for what @elfspice is talking about.....which is an issue with the database architecture as I understand it.
I agree, either way I believe @elfspice's intentions are good. There are too many observable issues which combined with his explanation, right or wrong necessitate far more communication from steemit.inc and @ned.
HF19 had nothing to do with it. It was going to hell anyway, already, beforehand. HF19 just extended the bonanza of rewards pool milking to everyone, instead of just the premined giant whale accounts, who were already doing that 'responsibly' before.
I'm not holding my breath on there being any change in the leopard's spots. They have kept denying thte facts of my own experiences, but today, none other than @furion came out and said what I have been saying since I first started to try and work with steemd
https://steemit.com/steem/@furion/updates-on-steem-python-steemdata-and-the-node-situation
BTW @furion, I already wrote failover scripts, and if anyone had been sponsoring my work, even a little bit more (and I did this work while living in a homeless shelter and spending my days at drop in centres) I might have already provided the solution they were looking for.
But nobody wants to support my work, because I tell it like it is about the shit I am dealing with, which looks bad. Damn straight it looks bad, because it is bad. Amazingly, it is possible for a piece of shit to smell like shit.
Yes, I am indeed the same person behind the two accounts. I switched over to @elfspice because, well, it's my old nick, my first online username in my first forum account at DMT World. And the hive. If you think the fact that I have been involved in the drug underground chat networks in any way discredits me, you are right out of line. In 2013 I was running an account on the Silk road, and I ditched it because I was fatally mismanaging my assets and resources. I even begged to be honest, with DPR, to let me refund my deposit and close my account. It had appreciated by 300% at the time. He said no. I had a friend help me out with faking transactions to meet the requirements, after I had begged 3 times to just let me have my deposit back.
I can tell you, it did not endear me to DPR, and I honestly thought, as the scuttlebut said, that he was not in fact running it anymore.
I don't even know what to think about it now. Ross Ulbricht in his media impressions since his arrest, did not read like the DPR that told me, basically, that he didn't write the code running the server, and he couldn't change the rules of refund.
I have no idea what to think of it all now, whether I was really talking to Ross, or someone else when I was trying to get out of SR. Or if Ross was the real DPR, or not. I think he probably was.
But suffice it to say, that I learned one thing out of all this.
Nothing is what it seems on the internet. Especially if the government law and its agencies has something to say about what is going on.
You people at steemit, and the premined accounts, is it a coincidence that suddenly you are all turning on each other, right after the SEC says that it has jurisdiction over securities contracts, like Steem Power?
FUD?
yeah, I'm getting paid so good at this that my whole living depends on me keeping 4 high end video cards and two machines mining altcoins to pay my rent.
You all have an opportunity to stop the lies, and redeem your reputations. But you are continuing to step up the lies. You are gonna get in so much shit, I am not even gonna shed one tear over your misery. You don't know what misery is. If you end up dead, you are gonna have it easy.