My first comment since HF20! Hell this is why we can't entice investors to come here. Its just another centralized project that claims it is not centralized.
But honestly Bernie this and the guy that is now #35 because he is "partners" with JB. Wow now he has two witness servers, WHAT? Is that cool for someone to have multiple witness servers?
Its the good old boy shit we deal with daily in our Fiat world, we all hoped to escape from here.
If it was not for the great friends I have made here there would be no reason to stay.
SMT... do you know of one company outside of steemit that is planing on having a SMT?
I have not heard of one real company outside of the steemit platform and if that is the case it will be a total waste of time. Its just a harebrained idea to sell more steem and I don't think it will work.
Another big problem is the powerdown and HF production testing. Until that is removed there will be no big push for investors to join this platform.
What intelligent savvy investor would invest in a company that will look up his capital for a week or even 13 weeks. Nevermind..........
Spot on. Steem will never draw those big investors @ned has always dreamed of for this exact reason. It's nothing but a fanboy club that @ned ensures will never change.
Why? Because he's scared and inexperienced.
I would upvote this reply but it would just get returned to the reward pool so if I remember in 15 minutes you will know I agree with you 100%
The most counterintuitive and inefficient mechanic possible. FFS.
Another @ned special!
I thought it was only for self upvotes?
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No, it's for all votes. So unless you want some of your voting power going to waste, wait until comments/posts are 15 minutes old.
The voting window only applies to 25% curation rewards. If it is not functioning correctly than there is another bug in the code.
Look Under Curation Updates here for the information:
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-velocity-hardfork-hardfork-20
Yes, that's correct. You still waste a lot of voting power if you vote on posts/comments during the first few minutes after it was published.
When the original post came out I thought it was all votes before 15 minutes. But many said it was just for the self vote.
Here is @themarkymarks take on it. here
I believe they changed it to prevent people from using large upvotes to get the curation for themselves. It didn't matter whether they were self-upvoting or using bots to do it. The author was able to manipulate it so that they got the curation. Now it's burned. It seems it would make more sense to just get rid of this time limit. A vote should just be a the same no matter when it's cast. But then I also don't know why they get burned when voting on a post more than 7 days old.
Its a penalty portion of your curation rewards that get returned to the reward pool not the vote given to the author.
We will all have to wait 5 to 7 days to know what they really did?
I think the jury is out for now because how can we accept anything but the facts after it happens?
True dat!
This will better serve the original mission of the curation rewards budget: to ensure that the Steem blockchain distributes rewards to the most valuable content.
Do you believe that crap?
No the rewards go to whovever the richest steemians want the rewards to go to and none of them are reading your posts.
LOL! No! Just reporting on the mechanics.
Absolutely agree, This is becoming nothing more than a Steemit Masonic Lodge. As for Bernies original question, no idea who almost any of the top 20 are. They just cream it in and have zero engagement.
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https://steemian.info/witnesses This one will give you the full list of witnesses. What they are running, links to their witness profile and much more.
This one will tell you who votes for them. http://www.steemreports.com/witness-voters/
@appics - they did an ICO to launch a SMT based app. Not sure whether they are still going with SMT. I am not able to find anything on SMT in their site https://appics.com/ now
That is someone who has been on steemit since July 2017. And they just started the app recently.
I am talking about a real world profitable company not a start up or a new company trying to fund itself.
Most people don't realize that Tesla for example is not a profitable company. If it were not for stupid investors they would have collapsed many moons ago. The cars are cool and the ideas are awesome but its not a profitable business. Take away taxpayer funds its even worse.
All the pie in the sky bull is just pie in the sky bull. There is really nothing new under the sun!
I agree - basically there seems to be no one with a healthy P&L or for that matter even a P&L
Pies & Lemonade? :P
i think they are still going ahead with their SMT - i just saw an update post this morning actually. i'm very excited for their project! i think it has great potential. also following you @bobinson- i like your passion & honesty and i hope some of your ideas can be put to good use!