Dolphin Council: It's time to organise and make our mark

in #dolphin6 years ago (edited)

Essential reading for Steem Dolphins: This could be what you've been waiting for.

There's a lot going on in Crypto and the steem blockchain. Even though it can be tempting to look at the Crypto Market and be discouraged, the reality is that Cyrptocurrencies are here to stay and so is the Steem Blockchain. Is the future of steem guaranteed, most definitely not, but what we do here and now will determine its future.

For me, steem has and will always have a special place. It was the place where I found an amazing group of people. Those that are willing to go against the mainstream narrative, to think for themselves.

But we need to work together and pool our resources and for this reason, I want to create the #dolphincouncil, this will be a way to bring together steem dolphins.

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We often talk about "herding cats" in the UK. This is a great phrase as it describes the difficulty in coordinating a group where each person has strong personal will and identity. When I was first thinking about this group, I kept putting it off as I had many doubts.

Steemians are too strong in their need for individuality and opinion to work together was my worry. And even if this is a great idea, why would anyone listen to me?

I have seen others organise and create groups, from the Friends of Gondor, who support @fulltimegeek, to @helpie, @thealliance and country based groups, such as @steemitbd.

Why a Dolphin Council?

I became a steem dolphin a few months ago. I bought in and put my hard earned money into what I believe in. Then, I thought about others who have done the same in recent months. I wanted to reach out to these people as they too have put up the stake and powered up to become steem dolphins.

Dolphins have invested a significant sum into the steem blockchain and need a way to have their voices heard. They are not Orca's or Whale's and cannot get that instant recognition for their views as larger stake holders. But together, if we coordinate, we can have a real influence in how the steem ecosystem grows.

My message to you: "Let's work together to give steem the direction and leadership it needs and make it what we all hope it can be, a truly successful blockchain that powers the social media of the future"

The Vision

I would love to have a group of us Steem Dolphins work together. According to @arcange's most recent post, the number of Steem Dolphins has risen to 1,917

How Much Influence Can Dolphins Really Have?

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This means Dolphins now hold 13% of all staked steem power!

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If we do some analysis, we see the average Dolphin holds 13,000 Steem Power

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What Does This All Mean?

If we can have a group of 100 Dolphin's coordinate, that is 1,363,100 of steem power. That is enough to move a witness significantly up the charts. We have combined vote value as large as a Whale

Witness Votes

One idea I had was creating a voting block for witnesses, we first discuss our top witnesses and we then commit to vote together on our agreed top 5. This could give a massive push to witnesses that are genuinely adding great value to the blockchain and growing it in the way we agree.

Boosting users who are adding real value

There are a lot of curation trails and other curators on the platform. My vision is to have us decide on one account to vote on per week. Considering each of us can make 10 votes a day, that's 70 votes a week, without taking us below 80% voting power. We can pick one user each week to upvote, this could be a developer, a promoter or a content creator.

Can you imagine how much impact we could have if we were able to incentive's users in this way with our combined voting power?

How will decisions be made

I believe in one user, one vote. As long as you are a Dolphin, you get a vote and we use a simple majority for most decisions with a super majority of 75% for changes to our own rules.

Once you join, you make a commitment to work towards the overall vision of the Council.

How Do I Join?

At the moment, I have just started a private discord group. If you are interested, please comment below or send me a message and I will send you a private invite.

I am open to ideas and suggestions, so please let me know your thoughts in the comments below, or privately in our discord group.

With the price of steem being so low, I still have other commitments that I spend my time on, but if this takes off, I am willing to invest more time into making this group work.

@kabir88

UPDATE:

Thank you all for your great comments and encouragement. We now have 8 of us on Discord, that's a lot of voting power working together!

A big welcome to @c0ff33a (6,518 SP), @zaku (7,267 SP), @newageinv (10,241 SP), @giantbear (6,651 SP), @daan (5,363 SP), @soyrosa ( 5,503 SP) and @flipstar (40,469 SP) who have all joined our Discord group.

That gives us a combined SP of 89,012!

We are currently working on drafting the constitution. The first 10 members will get founding member status, as well as shaping the direction this group takes by giving their views on the constitution!

I will add further updates here.

If you haven't done so already - please resteem this post.
Thank you to @anthonyadavisii, @antiabuse, @armincopp, @baah, @bashadow, @erickpinos, @jufriadii, @riseofth for the resteems and helping us to spread our message.

@kabir88

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This is a lovely idea - im involved in a number of community projects etc, and there a number of ways I contribute. Happy to say it's a yes for me with what I'm seeing here :)

My discord contact is: nigelrhil#5737

That's great @lordnigel, feel free to invite any other dolphins that you may know who have a similar outlook.

I have sent you an invite via your wallet and discord. See you there and bring that enthusiasm :)

@kabir88

I'm interested as well. I'm not yet a dolphin. But It won't take that long anymore.

Amazing, would be great to have you onboard @d0zer.

The markets picked up a bit today. I am wondering if we've past the bottom already or if there are more discounts to come.

What do you think?

I still think we are going down more. Volume is still very low. This could just be an upwards correction.

I would love to have a group of us Steem Dolphins work together.

Sounds really good, from my 'orca' point of view. :-)

Thanks @jaki01

I think we have often looked at the whales and orcas to fix all the problems. I think it's time for the dolphins to step up and present a solution.

Hopefully we can coordinate once we have our own internal structure and constitution drafted

I’m excited to be part of this project!!!

Great idea! I think many more Dolphins will continue to come as I am seeing more minnows increase their stakes as well. These are the accounts that we need to create this community to help not only the “middle class” of Steemians but also promote new user growth and adoption! I think I am in the Discord group although still learning the ropes there... Look forward to more details!

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Thanks @newageinv, when I reached dolphin status, it was a bit of an anti-climax.

Atleast now minnows have an incentive for powering up and taking a leadership role in how our community grows.

It is a very exciting time. What we do from now will determine the direction and character of the steem blockchain.

The details are still to be worked out, so everyone who joins early can have a genuine input on how this group works and grows

I think it could work and sounds really promising @kabir88

Also a dolphin here. If there is a way to contact you via discord, let me know. Definitely interested in joining if there is still room ;-)

That's awesome @mindtrap, I have sent you an invite via your wallet

Send me an invite please:) (emrebeyler#9263)

welcome @emrebeyler, I've sent you an invite via your wallet

Outstanding initiative. I hope to dolphin up soon so I may contribute to this.

Just have a lil bit of debt to deal with first but will keep working my way there in the interim.

Looking forward to working with the group and making great things happen!

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Thats amazing @anthonyadavisii, someone with your skills would be great to have in our collective.

Let's hope the price drops a little lower in the short term so we can all pick up some more steem power ;)

This is a brilliant idea

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Sent you an invite,

I left message on discord.

I would also like to join. I have some visions of where I think steem can go and want to join a community where I can express these ideas with some others who have the will and means to do something about it.

There's a public link to the discord channel on the latest @dolphincouncil post.

Look forward to seeing you there

@kabir88

Thanks, I have joined.
I look forward to having reasoned conversations with reasonable about reasonable solutions to our current problem.
Now I'm off to my real world job.

Hoping one day to reach Dolphinhood, when I do if by that time the Dolphin Council is formed I will join. I will try to continue to follow the updates, and It sounds like a very good Idea to me. 100 Dolphins having 5 real witness choices in the top 20 would be something. It will be interesting to see if 5% of the dolphins can pull something like that off, and if thy do The Dolphin Council could be who people turn to for guidance.

Actually while that is an awesome idea and I think it would be perfect if those 5 witnesses were run with communal ownership directly by the council such as rented servers but even then I think they would need bounties for development and solutions to problems as well to solidify a consensus on what direction and how to approach it for this council to really work.

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We can't predict the future, but the opportunity to buy at these orices may not be around for too long.

I look forward to you joining us. Your seat awaits for when you're ready