To add to it, I wrote the following else where: One is a suggestion and 2 is about usability aspect and a possible opportunity of STEEM
#1.
Suggestions
Why don't everyone - community, witnesses and STEEM Inc take this opportunity to create a truly decentralized, community driven project by introducing a QA process which will be independent of the blockchain development ?
The Goals can be formulated from the witness testaments regarding HF20 written by the developers.
A DAO can be created and this can do the following but not limited to it:
help the developers to run the TESTNET
ensure that the code has enough test coverage
maintain the CI-CD pipeline
generate transactions mimicing the MAIN-NET
publish test reports on a periodic basis
help to bring in bug bounties
create a code of conduct
Attempt to join various blockchain consortiums
work with Academicians in reasearch
A starting point can be using something like https://gitlab.com/SBCDAO/
#2.
On this, the requirement is this "have volunteer assignments for various surveys and volunteer + their specific task on a immutable fashion". Hyperledger based private chain was the first preference because the geo-graphical region I am in has a blockchain academy run by the government and it is a partner of hyperledger + stellar. The technical volunteers wanted an open system like wikipedia and Openstreetmap so that its possible for anyone and everyone to audit the data. We managed to convince the stake holders for a public chain and due to obvious reasons STEEM blockchain was the first choice. Right now damage assessment for the homes are over and a damage assessment for the infrastructure is about to begin. The proof of volunteer assignment and task assignment is already on private STEEM chain. Now, the question is, unlike a private deployment which is controlled and tested, the public chain behaves ways like what happened this week. So, is it possible to for anyone to ensure that in the next 2 - 3 months time there will not unexpected behaviors happening ? I am well aware that you or any of the witnesses will not be able answer this question. But if the STEEM Inc has any means to contact, this could be something that can be taken up. The next opportunity could be Ushahidi rescue request platform who is interested in on a blockchain -- this also open. Since there is no way I can communicate to anyone in STEEM Inc, just sharing it here so that someone takes it up if it makes sense.
timcliff September 30, 2018 10:39 PM
@bobinson it is just as possible for a consensus upgrade on Hyperledger to experience the same issues we went through here on Steem