I think what we really need is one of the witnesses, one outside of the top 20 , to become a bridge between the witnesses and potential contributors. I wrote about this last month. One dedicated to contingencies that the community can pledge work, delegations and/or computer resources to, both during contingency planning, in order to set up the tools needed 'just in case', and to scale up at the moment when things go horribly wrong.
As I wrote in that post, I would gladly pledge hours to such a coordinator.
A different thought I've been playing with is creating a reboot infrastructure consisting of:
- An arangodb database with an up to date patched state of the STEEM blockchain, basically containing the state STEEM would have if:
- STEEM had been RSHARES only.
- STEEM had been Bid bots free
- Self-vote and self-vote by delegation won't have counted as voted.
- Blog posts and comments kept only for the last 4 weeks.
- A new, simplified, arangodb backed blockchain that can start from an agreed upon snapshot that the witnesses see fit.
This could be one of many contingency measures. If things go wrong, boot up the new blockchain that would allocate STEEM-REBOOT (STMRBT) to top authors and investors, yet not to any of the pre-(miners).
The Arangodb backed solution won't be a permanent solution, but it could buy witnesses and non-STINC devs some time if the time ever comes for witnesses to collectively switch from STEEM to STMRBT.