What with all the forking around on here lately. I thought a little levity might be in order? This is my last post under the old/new regime! Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Below is my original #newsteem art work suggestion for the new front page of Steemit. I'm posting from @busy :-)
Steem Scream
Is HF21 going to solve all of our problems? No.
Will it stop all those shit posters? No
Will they be more visible? Yes
Will anyone with enough down vote power be willing to take the steps needed to stop the abuse of the now deminished rewards pool? Highly unlikely.
Here is my suggestion for HF 22.
Increase the number of witnesses that get paid to run a node from 21 to 200. Maybe then there will be more witnesses willing to risk losing their delegation from the most powerful accounts on steem who still have far to much power in selecting witnesses. Only verified accounts (KYC) know your customer allowed to vote.
Yes that old chestnut.
One Account One Vote!
PS Virtually everyone who has invested fiat or alt coins and Hodled steem, myself included have lost 97% of their investment. Imagine if you had invested a couple of $million? There are many who have invested much more than me.
Am I bothered? Not at all.
Steem has the potential to change the world as we know it. We just have to keep iterating until we hit the sweet spot.
Happy Hard Fork campers. 😂🙌👍
I have a crypto friend that asked why I think Steem is so great. He pointed out that we're a "shyte coin". I like to demonstrate some of Steem's strength over other cryptos. Here's one:
Move crypto from account A to B
Move crypto back from account B to A.
Repeat 1 million times.
Depending on how much crypto you started with, you will end up with significantly less crypto (having paid fees 1 million times).
Steem, you will have the same amount at the end. Zero fees.
Also, you can complete the transactions in just a couple of days. Other cryptos are slow! Bitcoin will require weeks!
Exactly right Ade, people outside of steem really don't 'get it' heck some people inside steem don't get it lol.
I have tried trading bitcoin at the height of the last bull run.(2017) It was virtually impossible to trade anything without paying a huge fee of $100's to get the trade done.
Bitcoin is the real shit coin as far as transaction speed is concerned. Litecoin is better but still costly.
I've also had Bitcoins stolen from exchanges and from @Wirex via a man in the middle attack (allegedly)on my account with no refunds from Wirex or VISA. What a shit show!
Wirex have an account on steem as well which is about as helpful as a fart in a spacesuit. It's a crap card and I would warn people about using their crap services. Don't leave any crypto on Wirex. There is a lot more I could share but Wirex is under a police and FCA investigation atm. Anyone who is shilling for them is going to get dragged into it.
On steem. We own our keys. We do our own trades with no middle men and no need to trust 3rd parties.
Steem is the hands down winner on every count. It's just that people don't see it's potential?
Zero fees! Send tokens anywhere in the world instantly. It's a no brainer.
This is my alt account @molometer ;-)
I am still holding out that Voice will be the cure for what ails us here.
I am still holding
Out that Voice will be the cure
For what ails us here.
- old-guy-photos
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
For sure, but EOS is having major issues itself atm. Don't think voice is coming any time soon. It should have been active in June?
No they have to roll out EOS 1.8 or whatever it is called on Sept 23. I think Voice may be going by years end. To me it is like a slow moving hurricane off shore. We know it is coming, but not sure exactly when.
Have you signed up for voice beta test phase?
It will be interesting to see how it looks. From the screenshots that I've seen it looks strangely familiar! 😂👍
No crypto is perfect. Steem has done technical benefits and a good community. The freedom means bad actors can operate here too, but hf21 opens some possibilities to deal with them. It depends on what users are willing to do. Time will tell
I hear you buddy but it is sometimes very difficult to tell who the bad actors are?
We do know of those that blatantly shitpost 10 times a day and upvote themselves and couldn't give two hoots about the community.
Then there are those 'others' that hide behind a raft of 'community' groups and 'ethical bots' and suchlike who pay to join these groups and then get a stream of upvotes from these so called 'community groups'.
Vote buying is vote buying no matter how you cut it or try to hide it? Some people choose not to be so sneaky? Or just don't give a rats arse about it.
I was thinking about a meet up in Cambridge on the second weekend of September. What do you think?
I'll do a post on it if you are interested. @steevc @basilmarples would like to join us too @adetorrent
There are plenty of obvious offenders to deal with. It looks like some trending posts have already collected lots of downvotes. That page is being cleaned up.
Cambridge is possible. I have a gig on the 14th.
Whereabouts is the gig happening? Maybe we could incorporate it into the day time meet up?
I'd like to come and film the gig for DTube if that is acceptable to you and the other people playing?👍
Alternatively we could have the meet up on the 15th in Cambridge?
The gig is in a pub in Baldock as part of the Balstock Festival at 8pm. Of course I'll be encouraging friends to come. It's free entry
Sounds like fun, I'll try to get over there before the gig to do some 'behind the scenes' video if possible.
Great name "Balstock" 👍😀
I'll do a post about it nearer the date in case others can come. I'm quite excited about it.