RE: Smokin', Tokin', Cash Heartbroken? Wary Check on Your New Neighbor On The Blockchain …
I am not defensive albeit being a cannabis advocate and also a witness (member) on smoke.io. I'm merely stating what I think are important factors to be considered before labeling copycat/clone/whatnots.
AFAIK none of the top 20 witnesses removed any witness vote from the creator of weedcash. Or any of the other witnesses who are weedcash discord admins.
We are a small niche and still advocate pro acceptance. Most of us are first #legalizeit advocates. Then witnesses, of which the main task is to sign blocks without missing too many.
All that means is that it emphasizes the legitimacy of the sector by having more platforms.
Eventually both platforms may evolve differently (depending on the evolution of SCOT weedcash is a content site with Steem's rewards mechanics integrated where smoke is a fully fledged blockchain). I also think that it will be interesting to see how all platforms approach the actual struggle, user acquisition, going forward.
Let's all first focus on getting users, creating utility, and eventually - hopefully - enjoy scarcity. Without those we are merely at the mercy of BTC markets. Dancing it's dance, rather poorly as we can see when doing a simple ×3 right now and comparing the marketcap of each token to its value when BTC was at 20k.
Maybe the real thief is they who created the markets/scene in the first place. Those satoshis are bringing us value and at the same time taking it away. 🤔
Lastly, it didn't take people away. If people left Steem for smoke then it means that they saw more (future) value in smoke than in the known issues Steem suffers from. You can blame smoke for that, but alternatively you could assess that rationally rather than throwing stones. The blame game helps Noone, not your preferred platform either because it means you focus on the emotional side rather than on possible improvements. And it also makes you seem colonial, expressing ownership over... something which isn't yours in the first place but every users.
BTW I come from the Usenet era, not sure what you mean about PC and thinking that you may not have fitted the era rather than that you expressed libel/slander (depending on whether you consider this chat or publishing). I wouldn't know what that taco thingamingy is either since I abhore the sheeple cult and it's submission to the prowess of marketing. I see very little dynamic, I see blind fanboyism and stuckupism.
Wake up. Steem isn't the promised land and will never be until the fanboyism evolves in more rational assessing and subsequent acts.
Yeah China claiming they own 20% of bitcoin was pretty funny. Anyways not sure what I meant by that I was going somewhere with that it's getting late for me. More platforms is cool in all but in a world where companies want monopolization finding the platform that can acheive mass utilization across the spectrum of chains would be ideal wouldnt it? More platforms in this environment to me means more fragmentation and wall gardens. You know how YouTube Shadow bans people? They just don't shoot them through the algorithm. So I don't know if there has to be some kind of weird way to incorporate an algorithm too in my opinion. I personally really like the bid bots and how it represents a pure sort of form of capitalism.
Smoke.io is a DPOS system. Any witness “campaigning” for walled gardens and shadow banning would soon find themselves with all but dormant votes.
We actively promote ourselves censor-free as alternatives to IG, YT, and crackbook. All platforms with fiduciary duties.
You seem to bring many arguments to the table just for the sake of saying something but without actually looking at the specifics. In other words: you’re bringing nothing to the party. Nothing but noise.
At the same time, your earlier comments about “theft” and “marketcap” have shown that your colonial behavior isn’t better than that found from those platforms. DoubleFknStandards, I smell.
Lastly, you wouldn’t do wrong in looking at the distribution of BTC mining. You may be surprised to discover where a majority of mining is centralized. Companies set in China definitely mine more than 50% currently, with hundreds of millions available to further invest in hardware. Hardware they also manufacture and sell to the world. 20% may not be far off the mark.