Protect & Govern STEEM: Vote for Witnesses NOW!
TL;DR: Vote for Witnesses (or set proxies) so the community has more influence than a single individual!
It doesn't matter which witness. Just make sure they've got Steem as n°1 priority!
Vote here => https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses
Fellow Steemians,
the ninja-mined stake from Steemit Inc. has always been a danger to our decentralised governance.
This is true now more than ever.
Justin Sun is a smart business man and if I were a TRX hodler, I'd be pretty stoked about his recent shopping spree.
But I'm first and foremost a Steemian!
I've built on here for more than 2 years and I'm lucky to have seen all the many positive attributes this blockchain brings to the table of crypto.
Especially with recent improvements, such as SPS, Mira, Resource Credits and soon SMTs & RC delegations. The future looks bright!
However, our blockchain is at risk.
There are a lot of rumours going around.
While Justin Sun is saying that for now Steem blockchain is staying as is, there are too many articles & tweets talking about the current STEEM token having to be converted to TRX STEEM, or becoming worthless.
This is a major red-flag in my opinion!
Steem is not and will not become a marketing product for any other blockchain.
If it were to make sense to migrate towards a newer & better technology, then it would make sense to think about it.
But right now, with the improvements that have been built on-top of the Steem core code, there is absolutely no reason why Steem, as a blockchain, should cease to exist, just to become another TRX-10/20 token.
What to do then?
As @taskmaster4450 correctly pointed out (post), there is currently over 210 Million Steempower on Steem.
If I subtract 75 million of Steemit Inc's stake and subtract 48 Million which is currently voting for the n°1 witness @yabapmatt, then there are still 90 Million Steempower left not voting for witnesses.
Alone 50% of that, 45 Million, would mean that the community would have more influence in deciding the future of Steem, than any single individual.
That means:
Vote for Witnesses - NOW!
Vote here => https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses
It doesn't matter which one you choose, as long as the witnesses have Steem as N°1 priority!
It obviously would make sense to support the current top 30 Witnesses, to make sure that we've got enough power to sustain any attack, but there are a lot of great witnesses below that ofc.
Now, if you don't know which witnesses to vote for, then simply set a proxy (you can choose me or any other Steemian you trust) as a proxy.
Header over to the user's profile on Steempeak.com and do the action you see above in the image (ACTIONS => Set as proxy)
This will result in your Steempower being proxied to said user who will vote with your Steempower as well (only for witnesses, doesn't include regular post voting).
If you want to set me as a proxy: https://therealwolf.me/vote?for=therealwolf&action=proxy
This post is not FUD
As I said in my previous post: I'm an optimist by heart and I would love nothing more than a mutual beneficial partnership between TRON & STEEM.
BUT.. I will not accept any risks regarding the stakeholders investments on here nor to give up on a project with so much potential.
We are not just here to make TRX holders richer!
If we can all benefit from this arrangement, then that would be great.
But let's be prepared to fight for our blockchain and our freedom!
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Vote for Witnesses NOW (or set proxies) so the community has more influence than a single individual!
Vote here => https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses
PS: Please focus on using alternative Steem interfaces; such as Steempeak.com, eSteem and more ... https://steemapps.com/type/interface
https://soundcloud.com/user-166850331/toss-a-vote-to-your-witness
Vote for @followbtcnews!
Great initiative! For me, it is crucial that we ensure that the users and stakeholders who have stayed with us through a harsh bear market (or two), gets what they were promised (the SMT hardfork and the key value propositions Steem have as an immutable, decentralized social platform where everyone can be a part and own a part.
Our witness (@steempress) will do everything to ensure that is what the community gets.
@therealwolf this question has been nagging at me for the last several days now and I would like to get your opinion on it.
Do you personally think that @yabapmatt has a real desire to preserve the Steem ecosystem as it is given his involvement with both Splinterlands (that has a Tron feature) and Steem-Engine which is backed by Poloniex?
I am asking because all of those things plus that he currently is the number one witness seem (from my limited perspective and incomplete understanding of the full scenario) to have an incredible amount to gain by a Token swap and/or merger with the Tron blockchain?
In other words would you vouch for him to do the right thing?
I have had zero interactions with him and do not know anyone else that has and by my nature I tend to be suspicious of folks. Please do not feel obligated to answer this but an answer would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: Privex is backed by Poloniex in my understanding. Sorry if I am misinformed there or if I should have just used Privex in my original post instead of Poloniex.
ive had a LOT of interactions with @yabapmatt.. both way back two years ago when he helped me with voting bot questions.. but more importantly and recently the past few months. He has been Amazingly supportive of the ecoVIllage project im working on, and in short, after many hours of talking and listening i can say that in my personal opinion, yabap is a legand! He has his heart in the right place, and is a man who cares, and gives a shit about doing the right thing... He is also pretty successful, but its his character that counts, and from what ive seen, his character is SOLID! Im Very happy to see him in #1 spot... we are in good hands!
So encouraging it is to read this remark about Yabapmatt.
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Thanks for your input on this @eco-alex.
Very good question.
i have given my opinion of yabapmatt in this thread.. thanks!
I thought so as well. Glad that it passes your muster @oldtimer.
Hmm, this one is a strong one. Though @Yabapmatt is not saying anything so far, but i think his involvement in Steem-engine means good for Steem.
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@yabapmatt is one of the honest people I know on Steem. This doesn't mean that he's perfect nor that he will put Steem before Splinterlands, but he's a good person and he will do his best.
Thanks for the answer @therealwolf.
100%.
There's way too many users who use witness voting the way they use curation, i.e. unvoting because they disagree with something a witness or someone involved in the witness does with curation (upvoting & downvoting) and often sit there with just 10 used witness votes or like to play politics and using their witness votes or proxies as a way to attempt to garner upvotes. These are all very childish things to do, we're talking about the security of our blockchain here so set aside those issues and vote for the witnesses you know have the best intentions for the blockchain in mind or proxy to someone you trust is up to date with who he votes for and uses all 30 votes.
I think many do not really understand the concept and purpose behind witness voting. More enlightenment on this would be helpful.
The top 20 steem witnesses for Steem are at the fore of decision making for this blockchain.
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I'm bound to say that of course I unvote witnesses from time to time, and I think witnesses actually try harder to do their very best if they can't take votes for granted. :)
Like I prefer manual curating over auto upvotes I also prefer 'manual' witness voting instead of choosing my witnesses once and then just stick with them forever.
However, I agree that every Steemian should make use of his right (and 'duty') to vote for 30 witnesses.
That said (and that's why I comment here at all), I think one single account should only be able to vote for five to (at maximum) ten witnesses!
Otherwise a big stake holder like Justin Sun could be able to control the whole blockchain. And it doesn't really matter which percentage of STEEM power he owns now. A person who spends more than four million dollar for a lunch with Warren Buffett would be always able to buy as many STEEM as necessary ... :)
Your last sentence is pure gold.
I've never really utilized more than 30% of my votes. Perhaps I will just set you @acidyo as my proxy since I believe more in your love for steem
I would like to see number of witnesses and witnesses votes changed during a fork. Maybe go to top 30 witnesses instead of 20 and change your votes to only 12 witnesses. This would help decentralize things. I always thought top 20 with 30 votes per account was to centralized
Socks. Limits on the number of witnesses an account can vote for are bypassed by sock puppet accounts.
A better mechanism to decentralize governance through witness votes is 1 steem 1 vote. No matter how many accounts are casting votes for a user, they can only vote their VP once.
They would have to split their stake to vote with multiple accounts though, and every individual vote would be worth less. I think fewer votes is actually closer to 1 steem 1 vote, as the influence one can excert right now multiplies with every vote one gives.
Certainly managing the witness votes of multiple socks is easily done using proxies. All the socks could simply proxy to accounts that each vote seven witnesses, and all the VP the owner spread through all the accounts would be cast for 30 witnesses in total, if that's what they wanted to do. However that VP would be split and only approximately 1/4 would apply to each witness (28/7 = 4), so it would reduce considerably the stakeholders ability to vote his entire stake for 30 witneses.
1 Steem 1 vote does so 4 times more.
Yes. Forget what I said, I didn't think properly.
Yeah, I agree. Maybe the math is wrong, but from the back of a napkin this sounds like a solid plan. It'd require more participation in order to approve things.
Yeah not sure the exact math. We can debate that. But needs to be changed. However the current witnesses most likely will never incorporate that type of change, so we would have to do it on a hard fork that separates from the current block chain.#steemclassic
Alternative Steem interfaces become more relevant after the Tron acquisition/partnership/collaboration or whatever they call it.
My personal favorite is @steempeak
Absolutely necessary now that community stays active and uses their stake wisely for the good of Steem.
Vote for witnesses
OR
Set active members as proxy
I have my proxy set to @blockbrothers!
thats what im doing since 4 years!
The Portuguese community @steemitportugal in Steemit has a witness and we would be grateful if anyone can vote for us.
Link: https://beta.steemconnect.com/sign/account_witness_vote?approve=1&witness=steemitportugal
Hug from Portugal!
would be great if some of those witnesses tell us for example "that they talked to steemit employees, that they tried to contact some people at trone..." so we could try and resolve this SHIT SHOW!
Yeah why don't they talk to then, make a video for proof, and get the facts straight before continuing to freak everybody out!! The post says he's all worried about tweets, anyone can tweet anything!! lol I may have to unvote this witness if he doesn't work on facts!!
we did get an steemit employe interviu, from the talk it looked like all is fine "for now" :D
Voting our witnesses is a mandatory thing that needs to happen universally in Steem. We DO need to know that all the witnesses are on the same page and are all ready to fight the fight though. I really want to have a list of our "dedicated" witnesses. The top 100 list is just a list of names and the amount of work to investigate every one is onerous. These are important times for the chain and we need to have an "all hands on deck" call to arms, beyond the "AMA".
It is a lot of work to investigate witnesses. BTW, I am pretty happy the witnesses aren't all on the same page. It's why voting for those you feel best represent you matters. Vive la difference!
That onerous burden of witness voting is why I set my proxy to @krnel. I did that some time ago, and chose him because none of the witnesses he votes for were running bidbots, unlike @therealwolf and @themarkymark. I have always vehemently opposed botting, and made sure my witness votes didn't go to profiteers.
I only mean same page in dedication to Steem and not over on EOS or other chains. I've been here for more than long enough to see the change in a lot of witnesses and their seeming motives. The proxy can be a good option for people but they also have to do due diligence on the proxy which might not be that easy for some.