Why are you not giving updates on SMT launch ??
Custom applications with their own way of rewarding will save steem from such bots. 15 min 30 min time frame is just a waste of time for humans. Bots are much more intelligent than humans. They can vote on 15.01 min but humans can't.
I think we have to remove SP with reward relationship. Just tie SP with bandwidth. The more SP you have the more you can post. If we talk about reward, 1 upvote = certain fixed amount irrespective of whatever amount of SP you have. Your vote will count as 1 (with fixed voting reward)
Their last update was that it would be available sometime early 2018. There is a lot of activity in GitHub for it. I suspect they will announce when they have something to announce.
I am also not seeing communities in this, but I am going to check the other update.@timcliff I was hoping it would come along side the HF 20,so apparently we might see different launches?
@vikasjaat, removing SP and tethering posts to bandwidth would be a very terrible idea, besides, changing monetary policies is sure to cause some court cases to pop up except stated when bringing in investors.
SMTs are going to be hardfork 21. Communities are in the works, but they are a UI layer change, and unrelated to the blockchain hardforks.