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RE: Steem Total Value Powered Up - $37 million - March 26, 2023
This week's power up is pretty good. More activities can be done. The APR rate, for example, can be slightly increased. I think the 4% APR rate is reasonable.
In order to increase the APR, I believe it would be necessary to reduce author, curator, and/or witness rewards (or to eliminate the SPS). It's explained here.
Basically, 15% of new tokens are divided proportionately among STEEM power holders. So... it's technically possible to increase the APR, but it comes with tradeoffs, and it's not as easy as it might seem.
Thanks for the link. There are many interesting informations about the hardfork. And now I know which keywords I can use for further searches... :-)
It seems that this problem has remained insurmountable. The whole problem is delegation. Without this opportunity, there would be no problems.
I agree that delegation exacerbates it, but the same problem existed before delegation was in widespread use (and you can still see it with certain accounts who are not using delegation, but are gaming the rewards).
IMO, the fundamental problem is that these changes were always done based on a hunch, but no one ever took the time to study the problem and perform a careful econometric analysis. As a result, it has remained too easy for large stakeholders to overvalue any post of their choosing.
Google built its entire business on the back of its PageRank algorithm. Steem's reward system serves the same purpose, but no one has taken the time to give it the attention it deserves.