I heard that anyone who downloads/operates a witness-node can just mass-create accounts on the STEEM-blockchain and somehow bypass Steemit.com? Is this true?
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I heard that anyone who downloads/operates a witness-node can just mass-create accounts on the STEEM-blockchain and somehow bypass Steemit.com? Is this true?
Yes but the accounts must be funded. Steemit funds the ones it creates.
Okay.
You don't need a witness node, there are many ways to create accounts and these accounts would show up as created by a user (like how anonsteem does it) and not via @steem and they wouldn't have the free 15 SP delegation either, only the 3 STEEM used to create the account.
Hmm, okay, and what do you think about this?
An account is just 1 wallet. People tend to forget that because of the social aspect. If it were bitcoin, we make however many we want and we treat them mainly disposable. Lots of people use crypto wallets in scammy ways. For instance, with referrals. Like if coinbase offers 100 with the first 100 deposit and referral, I suppose someone smart enough could do something similar. Since there's no social aspect to the transactions, nobody cares.
We care more about this because it affects our own social user experience. If it didn't, I bet nobody would even care.
@omitaylor
This is too weird, I need time to contemplate this, I feel a bit like a monkey trying to understand how to open up a tin-can right now... And you want me to understand how to make a bunch of tin-cans and fill them up with food and such... I will probably get there but hopefully I don't have to become a "developer" to be able to understand enough and to enjoy and benefit form this platform in a safe manner.
I think this platform is a good experiment but not really one that will be a happy place for most common folks. It's a jungle with smoke and mirrors making it look civilized. And everyone's money is at risk. Simply different personality types alone make it something sort of toxic. There's a lot of enablers, authoritarians, and control freaks trying to make it a horrible place and a lot of the same trying to make it a better place— and a lot of investors large and small caught in their crossfire of their crusades.
Bless us all. If I didn't like a little action I wouldn't be here LOLOLOLOL.
It would be fun to be a whale, a glowing green toxic-whale... (or maybe NOT, I feel kind of shitty when STEEM/SBD's drops, I wonder how a whale feels, some might actually have put like their "life-savings" into this system)... =)
And there is always a bigger fish!
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That's a really great picture representation hahaha
I don't know a whole lot about this stuff truth be told, I'm cramming and learning it fast and asking a bunch of hard questions because I've been considering getting further involved financially. I appreciate that you recognize my hard work learning it though.
Yeah, it is a bit like a "russian doll", or an onion or a computer game there is always a next level...
@friendly-fenix Absozoobalootly
(You where the one who told me about this @omitaylor!)
=)
I did? I'm losing track of myself. Hahaha.