This changes things a lot. You have my apologies for accepting their insistence that there was no problem. You'll be getting the SBD from that post. I'm absolutely disgusted with Steemit.inc..... they left any attempt at answers to @gtg then @sneak tried to make out that reasonable concerns about real issues were 'baseless fearmongering' . Between their appalling communication with the community, the things fuzzy said in my post, how they handled my post, you and a few other things, my concern is rapidly turning to complete disenchantment.
I will update my post for a third time and link @furion's post and yours.
It's useful to know the apparent limitations of those with the privilege of 'leading' this community. What a shame.
Just another thought, it's interesting that I still believe that Steem can scale and apparently so do you, you mentioned in your comments that you thought the solution was relatively trivial. It begs the question why the lack of communication? Why try to make people who clearly support Steem feel like they are idiots or working against the community?
With so much going for them....I mean, what's wrong with them?
grabs popcorn
There's no lack of communication - I told you plainly before he's spreading FUD. He's taken you in.
steemdrequires a lot of resources - to run with a full set of plugins. Most people, exchanges included, don't need those. We provide tooling and container images for runningsteemdin production in a variety of configurations.We at steemit run these in production 24/7, so we'd know precisely what it takes. He doesn't, by his own admission.
Heed fools at your own risk.
Please could you point me in the direction of the container images? Docker I presume? There may be a cut-down RPC configuration that suits my needs, and could address all my questions in one short answer!
You must have tunnel vision or towering arrogance. Even after Steemit is being forked, you cannot admit a failure of communication.
If what you say is true and there are no technical issues (bearing in mind I think the most serious issues are Steemit.inc's communication and perception handling) then why is there evidence of issues?
Just insisting there aren't issues is about the silliest approach I can imagine.
There are other issues I've raised that never get address...not just technical.
You reaction to me has done one thing for sure, it's changed a massive supporter of Steemit to someone who is considering going elsewhere. Don't worry, I'm under no illusion that this is something you give two shits about.
Would you consider not self-upvoting your empty comments. You have no idea how bad it looks , especially in a situation like the one being discussed. Yet more perception handling blunders. Surely you realise that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
Ok trivial was the wrong choice of words...completely. The greatest issue is communication and handling. My limitations around the technical side of things are abundantly clear. I think it's fair to say that the majority of people using steem are in the same boat. I hope what comes out of this is not more disenfranchisement but an acknowledgment that we can do better together and have every opportunity to address issues and strengthen our unity of purpose.
I do not understand US law in the slightest, I'm not even sure what a security is.....how it relates to crypto is a complete mystery to me. If mined SP is going to be considered a security, I have no clue what the implications are for those that mined it. What I do know is that some of them worked very hard to get there and have behaved with integrity for steem and steemit as far as I know. Ultimately I see any outside interference from governments (who are of course the architects of most of the world's ills) as uneccessary and counter-productive. If there is an issue, we should handle it as a community.
That brings me to your hard fork proposal. It's a perfectly reasonable suggestion. If enough people form a consensus to begin a new network, so be it. There are several precedents. But how do you do a fair distribution? Who controls the dev stake? How do you ensure that everyone already involved gets a fair stake without recreating the previous issues.....not all whales have been bad and steem wouldn't even exist without some of them.
It's a sorry state of affairs that is seems to have come to this. I have raised concerns over the steemit premine several times. My biggest concern has always been that. On the new chain, I think it is imperative to do an analysis on how much premined accounts have taken out so that those that got into this with the best intentions, who have not cashed out or are founders (especially ned and dan) are compensated. I don't know yet whether I would support a fork or not, it rather depends on how it is dealt with, how fair I perceive the distribution to be, how well looked after the founders are etc. I am certainly not against examining the possibility, especially if at the same time we can address legal issues, flaws resulting from distribution and technical aspects all at the same time.
The utility of steem and the community should be the greatest concern for us all.
>got into this with best intentions > DanHHAHHA, Ever wonder how almost everyone talking positively about Dan have a vested interest in one or more of his projects, or just a complete newbie who thinks Dan , the anarcho capitalist, aiming to secure life and liberty for all, will "revolutionize" the finance and tech sector. Just lol
Oh, and EOS is a complete joke as well
on his "rebuttal" against Vitalik's criticisms of EOS :
Not even exaggerating when I call him a shameless conman, people outside of steemit are literally laughing at the platform (and eos) and its founders.
Its a nice and innovative concept, but run by some really shitty people