RE: Who Really Owns Your Steemit Data? - The Community Seed Nodes Project - Forever Nodes
It's so funny that you use words like "smokescreen" and "political positions" because these are things that I had to deal with while trying to decide how to get these nodes funded so that they could be a real possibility. The issues are indeed broad when it comes to the technology behind the blockchain, and there are also other issues that I'd like to address. major ones as a matter of fact. This is what i see needs to be rectified first however because none of the other things matter if the network isn't in a consistent stat. I have to ask though, If there were a bar or standardized guideline to be set defining what exactly a witness was and how one would qualify as being able to actually do it, then what type of oversight would be in place to make sure that those standards were upheld? For the most part, The guidelines set forth in the whitepaper, Especially the price quotation, is expected to be regulated among the top 20 witnesses +1. I started to raise a bit of noise about the accuracy of that, and even how to stabilize the feeds as others have been able to manage it, but most have not (@justinadams witness maintains a stable price i'll add - see steemian.info/witnesses). A few people actually agreed, but just the same, a few people held resistance. Something about me being new and trying to change things. . . I kindly responded with the steemit logo proudly displaying it's "Beta" signature... This thing is still in the testing phase. Tests are designed for a reason. If change isn't accepted then how will we ever move beyond beta and pass it?
There are a number of issues that exist within the steem blockchain which is working directly against everything that you should be focusing on in order to maintain a clean and overly connected network of people who want to see what each other are up to.
However, the system was established with a clear disdain for and active work against setting up a central authority who would be capable of determining whether you have made a good decision this day or a negative decision. The lack of a central authority, beyond that of the witnesses, whom they themselves don't understand but from which depends their success is the core, is the very life supplied of what everything's about.
The problem, if we must to put our finger on one in particular, is the fact that we, as users, already except that the beta is implicit. No way in or out exists except through the beta. They've called for access to the financial side of things far, far too quickly. All of this would probably be easier to deal with if people weren't already counting on it to give them part of their rent. That's why all sorts of cunning manipulations may be in the offing once the weather opens up
No one on the blockchain has the power or the authority to make a declaration of how things are going to be and the power to make it stick in fact, most of the serious ones have already planned how to get out, it just needs a certain impetus. In the absence of an authority to go to, you get to see the worst parts of human society work themselves back together from nothingness. Congratulations, it should be amazing.
Luckily it does stay amusing.