I do have a whaleshares account same username, I also have a weku account same user name (I think), and a trybe account same. All of them are like my second account on steemit, Just-in-case. So far I have not done anything with any of them.
Trybe got hacked a few days back while they were moving to a new server. They have also changed a bit from being a coincentric social site to stretching their legs to becoming a bit more of an ordinary social site.
Whaleshares has been around for a bit, and I have looked through a little bit of their stuff. They did a nice walk through for a non-crypto person on getting a bitshares wallet thing. I'll figure that out as time goes on.
Steemit is in a little bit of trouble. The netcoins thing did nothing to help steem. I am sure the people at netcoins will put everyone's email addresses to good use, fortunately most of us likely used junk email addresses anyways.
The 50/50 split thing will not help steemit obtain any new content. It will likely decrease the quality of the content. People need to understand that when as a content producer that 50% is not likely to happen unless you strictly use steemit. All dapps like dtube, busy, esteem, and steemspeak, all are capable of charging their users a beneficiary fee. I am pretty sure that fee does not come out of the rewards being received by the curators. The fee these Dapps can charge are as high as 30%. I know dtube charges 10% because they recently wrote about Lowering the fee to that point.
At the end of the day if people are posting expecting rewards then those rewards are going to go down. A few of the witnesses have tried to say that a persons rewards will go up, I have no clue how they figure that is going to happen. Those seeking to earn are going to go the sure bet way and vote for content from known creators, not some joe shmoe that just joined.
I would like to thank you for all the support you have given me, without it I would have a heck of a lot less SP and a lot less vote power to spread around. I am fine with what you decide.
If you can talk to the witnesses, get them if they are hell bent on doing this then they must make it so that any beneficiary payments come out of the curation side of the rewards and not the content creator side. But of course that idea would be shot down from all sides and no prisoners taken because then you are STEALING from their entitled curation reward.
Yeah, DTube's "we're lowering the fee" thing. They used to take 25% and redistribute it to people who voted on the post. Now they take 10% and keep it. That's like Steemit Inc. claiming that they were lowering the account creation fee when they were actually raising it. There's an immense amount of dishonesty here.
Isn’t that with everything since a service costs money?