I echo my consensus, shorter power downs would help everyone, and hurt no one, really. It would entice me to put more IN, actually, knowing I could use it more like a savings account that I can draw on in emergencies, and larger investors like their rapid liquidity as well. Please focus more on this than on 50/50 moving targets...
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Well thought out comments @SirCork.... AND of course....
GREAT Post @Fyrstikken !!
Cheers 2 You BOTH !!
I would prefer shorter power downs, too. That said, you lose security the shorter you make the power down period. If the power down window were, let's say 2 days, then you'll see big SP holders who get phished and have their entire SP holdings converted into liquid Steem and cashed out before they even have a chance to notice (coming back from their weekend or vacation or what-have-you), whereas, they would be able to save all of that SP if they could regain the account from the hacker before 7 days are up with the current parameters.
You could have an option to lock SP much as we have "savings" for liquid coins now.
Simple enough solution, I suppose.
Still, though. The lock period being shorter than the current power down period makes it inherantly less secure, for the same reasons that I stated in the first post (less time for any potential hacker to convert your account's total value to liquid Steem).
But, as I alluded in that post, there is a real, and quite obvious, security/ usability tradeoff and I lean towards a much shorter powerdown window, despite the inherent risks with that. I'd personally prefer a month powerdown (4 weekly powerdowns) over a seven day, but that's mostly because I'm overly cautious when it comes to protecting my investments, and doubly so when they're outside of my physical possession, and quadruply so when they're cryptographically secured between a network of nodes.
I can handle the frustration of having to wait an extra 3 weeks, given the peace of mind of being 100% certain that a blackhat won't be spending all of my funds before I get back from my week's vacation.