Ahhh! But that is not my idea!
My idea is to keep the current "limited witness slots" but add to it a feature to either approve or disapprove a witness. Ergo "downvoting all others" would be impossible, or do I misinterpret your explanation?
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We are talking about an attack on the top 20/30 witnesses, the rest does not matter much for this attack. So basically if they seize 10 and downvote the other 20 they can control more.
hmm... but downvoting 20 others with enough power would then allow another group of 20 to rise to the top? Or am I completely misunderstanding?
Like I said, not yet fleshed out :) Maybe others can chime in to explore if this can be used as an attack
100!
In reality, such an attack would not be likely to be carried out by a government or other large group because they already have enough money to just buy their way into the top 20 anyway ;)
However, the idea of downvoting accounts while also being able to upvote accounts would certainly be a less noticeable way to takeover the system, since the downvoting and witness account running could be spread over numerous accounts, making it hard to track and co-relate the actions to one another.
I do think there is some merit to reducing the number of witness votes though, maybe 9 is a good idea, so that the same SP cannot be used to affect more than 50% of the witnesses.