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RE: Cookie Crumbs 3: Accountsquatting with a Bonus & Addressing a Neccessary Change in HF20
You raise some valid points in your article, and a lot of your suggestions do make sense to me, but I must immediately oppose any tribunals making blockchain-reversal/deletion decisions.
Posting fees and more downvote-bots is something I'd likely be supportive of.
Good write-up, we always need more active thinkers who contemplate possible routes forward to better the game's mechanics.
If you oppose blockchain-reversal, consider the hard-forks and the replacements which start from scratch and are a complete deletion of both the good and the bad here.
The less deletions a blockchain has, the sooner it gets entirely deleted/replaced.
Especially a blockchain like this one, which had no fees so far, had too small minimal transaction amounts and includes entire posts.
could you elaborate on:
maybe I am missing something?
Once steem blockchain becomes unsustainable, there will be hard forks or replacements which will not include the old posts and these will be the long overdue deletions.
The problem is, that starting from scratch will not only get rid of the spam, but also from the good content.
Steem blockchain is not eternal, not even in blockchain terms, and its being immutable only makes it worse.
There have to be ways to delete obvious spam, not just to prevent future spam.
I guess this is a discussion about the general nature of blockchain then.
As I understand the concept it has to be an immutable ledger.
You may be correct, and I bet you know more than I do about blockchain.
I did stumble upon the phrase 'immutable blockchain' which makes me wonder if there is redundancy in it.
I do not comprehend what prevents a blockchain from becoming mutable in principle.
The whole idea of blockchain is to run an immutable trustless ledger.
Allowing later modifications to older blocks would essentially make the whole idea pointless. It will then require "trust" in those who can change the historic blocks.
Simplified: a new block validates against the previous block, if a previous block gets changed, all subsequent blocks become invalid. So changing old blocks would also require rerunning the whole chain from that point on.
Technically this would only be possible if all "miners" (in case of steem witnesses) were in on it, but even then, copies of the unchanged blockchain would still be available. You would basically create a new chain all together.
Some trust in a big enough majority of reliable people (Which most of Steemit's top 30 witnesses are) is crucial for the sustainability and efficiency of a blockchain which should become mutable, or else.
I'm not sure how to do this just right, but one of my followers brought to my attention that you investigate people on the platform who aren't on the up and up. This is a post I did yesterday that might interest you...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@richq11/scam-alert-a-public-service-announcement
Thanks! Yes, that's what I do ;)
The kinds of offers like you describe in you post are becoming more and more common. My best advice to anyone, don't go for service offers that are brought to you in any such manner. Only use services that you can see are working!
I'm going to keep writing posts to warn people... The devs and admin won't do anything- so I don't know what else to do. I've been monitoring his wallet and people are falling for it. I got another message this morning.
Stay vigilant! Unfortunately too many users here are gullible or inexperienced and the sheer amount of scammy operations, phishing attempts and abuse in general seems to be hard to control.
I've been there! That's how this account came to life!
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