Hi thanks for your post, I hereby confirm my stance as follows:
- (Are you willing to shorten the SP power-down period to three to seven days from current period? )
I am willing to shorten to 4 weeks as per the steemproposal I made, this gives a healthy balance to security and funds availability as well as prevents mass dumping on the market. You supported this proposal if you recall, but you never voted my witness when you decided to vote for a couple, I was very surprised and disheartened that you didn't because I was fighting for the very same lower powerdown times that you wanted and voted for.
Not right now, this is a massive change and there are no steemit devs left to code it, I do believe the free downvote pool is unfair and leads to downvote abuse, it also makes it a double deduction for example if you upvote something else you move rewards away from everything else, but by downvoting a particular post and upvoting something else at the same time, that post is extra penalised. Downvoting is needed to stop abuse otherwise the reward pool could be drained my malicious parties, but I don't believe in the free downvote pool. My business is heavily affected by it and I actually commented on your last post that I understand how it feels to be downvoted because I recently suffered the same, you didn't respond to me.
Smart contracts, yes! I agree that if we had smartcontracts we could do some fancy pegging of SBD to become more of an algo token like DAI, also SMT's without smart contracts are less appealing than other tokens on EOS, ETH or TRON that have that option if needed. If SMT's are going to compete with other chains then smart contracts should be added.
In the end none of this can be achieved with the current state of Steem, ex Steemit devs refuse to work for Justin and the only way is to get them back and get paid directly by the DAO they won't come back and build as long as the centralised witnesses are in place, and the longer we leave it the quicker we will lose them to other outside job opportunities.