We have ZERO FEES, but what if you got 0.00000001 SBD/STEEM/SP When you sent tokens?
Think about it, would it be bad or good for the long term perspective to pioneer in this idea? What if ZERO is not good enough anymore?
I want you to take some time and really think about the pros and cons of this idea, because it is a game changing or a fractional part of a revolution to go from zero to a minimum something. My own bias is that it would push people to circulate the currency (SBD) and the assets (STEEM + SMTs).
Thank you for reading, thinking deep about it and commenting below.
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Little amount is good sometimes even zero causes problems . It seems as if we can never be happy ?!
Well, I think we are mostly happy. But we are competing against everyone and maintaining the #1 position on blocktivity like a boss. Would be great to throw in the cherry on the top and say - oh by the way, everytime you send tokens you get a little something for that as well.... Make it "too good to be true" but it is really true. Little amounts like... 0.025% of inflation goes to token transactions rewards for example.
Nothing is free in this world. someone is paying for it.
Agree :-)
the blockchain is paying for it, fresh coins.
Which means that existing users who choose not to participate in meaningless transaction spamming see their share of the market cap diluted, so they are still paying for it.
Existing users might also lose their ability to use the blockchain. It almost seems like there should be a minuscule fee to prevent malicious spammers from trying to crash it.
Well, we have bandwidth, but we can see that it creates some problems. I'm sure they're going to try more novel approaches in future HF's.
While you're right @hackerwhacker, we have a lot of people who think things can be free and are willing to test that by passing off the costs to others. I think @fyrstikken's idea is interesting, just one I'm not partial to. I still think it's worth looking at though, like the post shows, Think Different, if for no other reason than to challenge our perspective on things.
As other users have mentioned you cannot implement a system like this without it being a vector for volume attacks on the network. You also should not pursue volume for volume's sake. I have a few ideas but I consider them my billion dollar ideas, anyways the problem is not with technical implementations but the willingness of human beings to do things that would not increase their own existing wealth, which is why we see capital flight from France after their wealth tax and decreased investing in housing in Canada when foreign investment taxes are raised and so on. Basically if you pursue any type of system that automatically negates wealth accumulation you scare wealthy people away, and your chain would suffer because no other chains want to shoot themselves in the foot by being among the first to do so.
Somewhat ironically considering how anti-gov many crypto users are, they cannot see that some of the only big adopters of crypto simply seek to replace the services that already exist in the fiat space and be the ones to profit from scare resource accumulation, money creation, lending practices etc., they aren't actually trying that hard to solve society's problems because that would be less profitable for them. Basically the answers to our problems are all out there already, but why would anyone who is rich in the current systems want to change what's working for them.
Lets assume two things:
That would eliminate the volume attacks on the network, in fact it would speed up the network.
And, if 10-20 STEEM in the future became valuable enough to fight for, in our current state we most likely would crash, but with smart implementation of entanglement we could use the network to the advantage of the total user experience.
Crypto users are starting to rule now, and will rule hardcore in the future. But to comment on your statement, Professional Politics has created too many countries that spend the money of the many on stuff like... finding out how the sex-life of mosquitoes evolve over time with or without cocaine involved... among other stupid things you find in the 500 page long Invoice from the "government" to the "people".
Taxes the current system is an old dinosaur that needs to be replaced with a new system that allow us to DELEGATE our hard earned assets to projects that are not... how do I put it... a scam.
Because people die, and system changes as a new generation innovate, and that is definitive.
Not to get into a tangent but from a technical standpoint Iota doesn't have very strong legs to stand on, the project is likely at a standstill as it wonders how to convince people that the impossible is possible in that the processing and energy requirements of doing the transactions is likely much more than the devices they claim to be aiming for use in, and as things are now they won't be able to handle many transactions at all. Plus their distribution was terrible and it's likely an elaborate pump and dump with tons of buzzwords to distract and attract investors.
That aside, I do look forward to seeing how other dags or types of entanglement networks work out when tested to the limits in real-world cases.
Call it personal preference then that I do not think you should incentivize network activity as you are proposing. Look what happens when you give a refund on transactions, they already do that for, guess what, big stock exchanges. It distorts markets and volume for volume's sake is never a good thing, at least from what I've seen of when it is practiced in the real world. It just puts money in the pockets of those who can produce massive volume at scale, as they pocket the transaction bonus in a way that no normal people with access to normal amounts of computing power could.
Yes, government spends a lot of money wastefully, that is not news. But lots of services are provided in many countries, and so far I don't think anyone would argue that most people in the crypto space are seeking asset protection and return on investment. We are just seeing the new capital of cryptocurrency accumulate mostly in the hands of a new few, but I don't see them jumping at the chance to blow all their money on fixing societal ills so much as try to increase their networth.
Then we will see many fake transactions on blockchain, I think it will rose the steem price, it will be a bubble that will grow more and more. And when it will burst then it will collapse the entire network
what if there is "only" between 10-20 STEEM in the daily transaction-pool, a very small amount - but an amount. Think harder.
If we select that then we will need to add more tokens in the reward system, more tokens means more inflation and therefore a devaluation of the steem.
On the other hand, it produces spamming because you would send money from A to B, and next from B to A indefinitely in order to get more rewards.
Conclusion: I think it is not a good idea.
There currently is about 70,000 STEEM in rewards going out every day.
Lets assume the rewardpool for coin-transactions is between 10 and 20 STEEM per day. How does that sound?
Thanks for the upvote.
Now we have numbers with 3 decimal positions. This is good because it is easy to understand, and therefore there are more inclusion (kids, teenagers, grandparents, etc).
If we add more decimals, like 0.00000001, we will lose part of these users.
We solve the problem of inflation using only 10 - 20 steem, but the spamming will be present, and that means more costs for the witnesses.
That would definitely encourage more transactions. Just checked blocktivity and the record now is 2+ million transactions in a day, that's amazing.
Also gave your witness a vote, along with a resteem - cheers!
yes, we are beating everyone on transactions... just want to set the benchmark higher and higher.
Resteemed as we need some levers to guide preferences (from an economic) perspective in the way people interact. Can’t be a complete hoarding mentality that defines how we operate here. Thanks!
for sure, call in the mathmagicians :)
levers and breaks are always needed in these economic wheels.
I understand your perspective,putting an incentive to increase number of transaction might be good for the steemit ecosystem in general but we need to be weary of spammers waiting for a golden opportunity like that to abuse the system.
Hmmmm
Usually everyone charge sone pennys or more.. Its not big ammount
that is why I want to explore the unusual. Call it bonus-points for spending or transacting steem/sbd/smt - the bonus cards do it, the credit cards do it, why cant a blockchain do it? It can :)
Yeah.. Thats the point.. But in an unusual way..😊
Yeah blockchain can also do it.. But i think its better to look all pros and cons before
I'm not good for this! let me resteem and look what follow this postncomment if what other steemians can do! 😁
honest comment, I like that.
thank you sir! 😊 that's the truth.!