I believe EOS will have something like delegation once it launches. Obviously as an ERC20 token it doesn't.
I can see where you are coming from on this subject. Even though I am a minnow, I do delegate to a couple of projects I support and plan to a little more. I also have about 150SP locked up in 3 failed attempts to create an account, when steemconnect kept adding or deleting characters from my chosen account name without warning! But that is a different story. I understand I can claim that back after a month.
I think part of the problem here, is that whilst there are many projects worthy of delegation, it might be hard for most of them to attract the attention they deserve from those with enough power to delegate.
You hit the nail on the head here I think.
The question then becomes, how to curate a project to curate the best projects, bringing them to the attention of whales willing to invest? But that project would itself need to attract the attention of some whales. Breaking out of that catch22 would be the important step such a project would need to bridge. Probably after it has proved functional with smaller delegations.
On a positive note @jerrybanfield has launched his growth proposal, he also outlines many other initiatives in his post linked above. There is also another project @steem-bounty.
Nothing seems to have attracted the attention of the big delegators like the top 5 or 6 projects we all know about. I ask myself why is this and I cannot find a good answer.
Delegation is an investment. How do you compete for this investment and how do you attract these big whales in 2018? I would love if someone would shed some light on this for me.
I feel your pain with steemconnect. I ended up with four accounts when I wanted two because steemconnect chopped off part of the username. It happened to at least one other person that I know of.
Yes, I finally got @blockpress set up, but only after creating blockpresss, blockpre, and blockpr. I also tried
steempy, but just got errors I couldn't debug. Probably a missing library or something, but I couldn't work it out.Well, at least now I know about @blockpress. I’m following the development now. I’m working on a steem/wordpress integration too.
BlockPress is not an integration with Wordpress, but its own themable platform. ;) See https://blockpress.me for a demo of the alpha. Or https://anton.blockpress.me for the same code with a different config and theme...
@tipu send tip!
This is so much better than an integration with wordpress. Very interesting. To be honest I didn't look very long and I just assumed WordPress. I'm now following your GitHub repo. This looks like something I'd like to work with.
Great! The beta will be released soon. Just got to get permlinks sorted, some styling/theming issues, and some documentation. Will be happy to assist/advise in theme/palette and content module creation. We have a channel on steem.chat now also, #blockpress. Really new and shiny and unused. But it is there. :)
Hi @antonchanning! You have received 0.1 SBD tip from @nikema!
@tipU is looking for SP delegators: pays out 100% of profit to all investors - more info here.