Yea, I also cringed when I saw the comment about blockchains having "freeze features". What you said about the "leaders" and "influencers" in the space not understanding the basics of the technology is unfortunately the sad reality.
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Instead of feeling cringy and superior and trying to be mysterious, make a post and explain the concept to the community. You are a witness after all.
Keeping people in the dark is a common thing among profiteers. The dumber, the better.
Its "cringy" because it was said by CZ, not some newbie or average user. CZ is one of the most prominent participants in the crypto industry, so for him to not know blockchain fundamentals is reasonably cringy.
The idea still applies.
This post discusses many ideas, some people will read it and undressed some concepts, they will probably understand (especially the decisions) the whole situation even better now that they know a few things.
Instead of silence, witnesses should spread knowledge and educate the community about the chain. It is well known that a dumb population is easier to control, a smarter population will keep everyone in check and accountable. Guess why witnesses were posting movie reviews and streaming games instead of doing what really matters?
Just accepting the final decisions without knowing why and how is pure slavery. Treating people like if they don't have the brain for it is also pure slavery.
That's true.
Not to be argumentative, but I disagree that it still applies.
Nobody was talking about the "masses" here. Its not "cringy" for the wider community to be confused, and lots of people, including/especially witnesses will be glad to take the time to assist. That's not the issue here.
CZ is not part of the wider crowd. The man employees very smart people that can help him understand blockchain. He is one of the foremost participants in the blockchain industry, and it is cringy to not know your own industry.
Not to be argumentative, but I disagree that it still applies.No worries, it's always better than believing in something just because it feels good.
Nobody was talking about the "masses" here. Its not "cringy" for the wider community to be confused, and lots of people, including/especially witnesses will be glad to take the time to assist. That's not the issue here.Well, I was. Your replays to people should be based on what they said, no based on ideas you think you could have a good answer to them.
CZ is not part of the wider crowd. The man employees very smart people that can help him understand blockchain. He is one of the foremost participants in the blockchain industry, and it is cringy to not know your own industry.Already answered that question, at least have the decency to check my comments above.
Keep on cheerleading,
Thank you,
this post by @blocktrades that you are commenting on does exactly that (explain the concept)
No shit sherlock.
Now the hard question: Why @blocktrades was the first to talk about it? Get it?
and witness that only communicate with the community 1 time in 4 months is BS.
and don't you dare start talking about "They are doing a lot of work in the BACKGROUND"
If @blocktrades is doing it, all witnesses can do it.
If you think @blocktrades is the first to talk about consensus mechanisms on this platform after reading a 2020 post, you are sadly mistaken.
The DPOS systems has been posted, blogged and commented about in countless instances on the Steem platform (and other message boards & fora for that matter). It's been subject to a LOT of debate.
Nearly all of the original top 20 witnesses have been pretty vocal about their views in general, which is only normal since before participants in this network should vote for anyone as a witness, it's nice to know their views.
I would personally say it's necessary to know their views before voting, but it seems that currently there are witnesses in the top20 that have NEVER posted anything...
YET YOU ARE VOTING FOR SOME OF THESE.
The reality is most people are not interested in understanding the technology. I have said time and time again, when there is a crypto that can hide all the tech stuff, people will flock to it in droves.
Cg
I would call it "feature" as long as the developers of that blockchain put in place the tools to do it.
For instance, this "feature" has been more designed and elaborated in EOS.
So, from my side I don't see it's wrong to call it in that way.
It's absolutely not a feature, IMO. It's an aspect of the technology. Sure, you can put in place tools to manage that aspect of the technology. But that doesn't make it a feature, it's still just an aspect of the technology, not something that was designed by choice, which was what CZ was implying. Now you could argue that tools to manage it are a feature, but that's a different point.
Well said!
Exactly, this is my point.
I agree that this is an aspect of the technology. But it is also true that when you design and write the code, if you put code to freeze accounts you are adding this as a plus, as something specific for that blockchain, you could summarize it as a feature.
I understand that freezing accounts could happen in all blockchains, not specific ones. But you could label those blockchains in that way when the majority of miners/producers/witnesses decide to apply a specific code to do it.
btw, I liked your article. Good to see the history behind the decision of DPoS.