Okay, interesting thoughts @blocktrades. But can we add new designs while this new snazzy chain is being made? It is a legitimate concern that Steem behaves too much as a plutocracy. We need this to be changed.
Bag of "Goodies" I want to see happen for New Steem (Neem?) #Neem
Can we discuss speed trade-offs in favor of an increase in the amount of consensus witnesses? Perhaps we can employ sharding in order to maintain similar speed but increase the number of witnesses. Personally, I want 63 consensus witnesses.
Reduced amounts of votes per account on witnesses from 30 to 3, at least 8.
Remove curation for STEEM and relegate it to SMTs. STEEM inflation switching to 91% staking, 9% block rewards and we cut inflation rate down to 4%.
Make "Steem Power" (Let's just name it Stake damn it!!!) an equation of Stake Amount * Stake Length so that rewards and influence on "Neem" is not such a plutocracy system but more about rewarding people for their devotion to the ecosystem.
Example: Dude #1 stakes 5000 "NEEM" for 1 year, Dudette #2 stakes 500 "NEEM" for 10 years and they both end up with equal rewards and influence.
I expect the rate at which Hive"evolves" will make Steem look like a Sloth. We will have far more developers and far more people generating new ideas, now that we'll finally have a chain where Steemit doesn't act as the gatekeeper for even the smallest change.
holy crapolas this is all SO EXCITING!!!!