It can't, that's true. But what it could also do, is give also an idea of what type of reverse-engineering people might do with the new system, and consider what they might try to do to over compensate for the change to game the improved reward system.
The initial work to simulate things and notice patterns, trends, and possible "reward exploits" could be possible by using historical data and user patterns.
As time goes on, and since money and value is at stake, doing simulations is going to be mandatory in order to minimize any possible damage that could arise. We don't want to make buying/holding steem a roller coaster ride for investors everytime there is a hard fork. Or do we? :)
Stability with our changes and the value of STEEM, and minimizing problems needs to always be key. So if we can create tools to snapshot historical transactions and run them through algorithms, we should be doing that..
It would yield a lot of interesting data. I can think of about 50 steemit accounts that I'd be checking on, everything from a minnow, dolphin, whale, or bot for the new system. It would be interesting to see how the historical transactions run through the new reward calculation would work for / against them. :)
It can't, that's true. But what it could also do, is give also an idea of what type of reverse-engineering people might do with the new system, and consider what they might try to do to over compensate for the change to game the improved reward system.
The initial work to simulate things and notice patterns, trends, and possible "reward exploits" could be possible by using historical data and user patterns.
As time goes on, and since money and value is at stake, doing simulations is going to be mandatory in order to minimize any possible damage that could arise. We don't want to make buying/holding steem a roller coaster ride for investors everytime there is a hard fork. Or do we? :)
Stability with our changes and the value of STEEM, and minimizing problems needs to always be key. So if we can create tools to snapshot historical transactions and run them through algorithms, we should be doing that..
It would yield a lot of interesting data. I can think of about 50 steemit accounts that I'd be checking on, everything from a minnow, dolphin, whale, or bot for the new system. It would be interesting to see how the historical transactions run through the new reward calculation would work for / against them. :)