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RE: Steem blockchain multivote security vulnerability

in #palnet5 years ago

I agree that having fewer votes makes it much easier to get enough witnesses to block consensus.
But then let's stop false statements about decentralization. Recently almost every witness is using this word in his articles/talks. At the same time, the system is designed to consolidate power.
Downvotes could centralize governance even more.

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I think something even better to discuss would be adding a slope with a cap for witness votes. Like, when you just power up your stake is only worth 10% the vote and it will go up to 100% within 30 days or so. This way anyone powering up would have to commit at least for 30 days + powerdown time.

What if we tie the Witness Votepower to some rules like:

  1. The younger an account, the less influence.
  2. The more SP a account powered up, the longer it takes for his Witness-Votepower to rise.
  3. The less reputation an account has, the lesser his influence.
  4. An account cant have more influence than (lets say) 5% of the Community no matter how much SP he owns.

I already tried to get this mechanic into a formula and when i have more time, i try to explain better how and why i think this is good.

Im not that good with maths. Its just about the idea and i would be happy if some people read this and think about how we could make the formula better or what problems this could cause. Thank you!

https://steempeak.com/steem/@remotehorst23/steem-blockchain-has-a-major-problem-and-maybe-the-solution-is-pretty-easy

ad.1 - Yes. 1 would be best, 3 would be quite good. But I'm afraid both are impossible.

ad.2 - good idea!

ad3. - reputation could be manipulated, could bring more problems.

ad4. - not possible without KYC, as STEEM owner can always split his stake between many accounts as needed.