Rumor says: "We might Be DPOS-TESTED SOON" - Time to show the world how strong our chain is!
FINALLY I am hearing scared people rumor around about a supposedly mixed-hat attack against DPOS blockchains (like BTS, STEEM, EOS & MORE). I find it interesting, but not scary. Not with these people onboard!
The Proof of Work people (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Unobtanium & More) are not giving up yet, and this time some University Fresh-Students eyed DPOS-systems and with a small anonymous donation in their direction I bet that the "other side" are doing what they can in order to get governing power in DPOS in order to change the direction in the main chain.
This can be great learning - No reason to panic
Only if they are successful of course can this be a way to learning and correcting mistakes, if there is any (I think they will fail miserably like everyone else who have tried for the past 8 or so years).
PoW Mining = Good for Power Plants - DPOS = Good for the environment & Much Faster!
The main difference between DPOS and POW, is that POW requires a lot of electric energy to work, so much in fact that it now shows that 3% of the worlds power-consumptions goes to crypto-currency mining, which is stupid, since in the virtual world there is no real mountains to climb or rocks to divide - POW is completely governed by outside factors (Many POW coins have been 51% attacked when profitability has been low, and caused many many coins to be delisted from exchanges and even exchanges going bankrupt because of sloppy security.
While Bitcoin & Ethereum stress to solve blocks, we can focus on expanding features instead of constant maintenance to stay technically alive!.
When people fall in love with their stock, currency, cryptocurrency and hear that a competitor has faster transaction time, SUPER SMART CONTRACTS + More under development, I have often seen what I call Fear of getting REKT (FOGR) and Denial of Reality (DOR), but it is the first time I have seen such dedication from hodlers i en eller annen POW/POS Shitcoin clone being so sure of themselves.
WORST CASE SCENARIOS
The top 19 witnesses are charmed/tricked or threatened to accept a bad fork... Which means that an unknown amount of people would have to physically locate all 19 witnesses to accept the fork, which would be picked quickly up by stakeholders and developers to sound the alarm, re-instate witnesses and roll back the chain to before the mal attempt and most likely we would have a big town hall meeting to breath easy with our fellow steemians.
A Group decides to acquire enough steem-power in order to be able to vote in their own people from witness 1 to 30, these witnesses will have a new fork installed that we cannot do anything about, lest the rest of us acquire more stake to battle - which for both parties will be expensive and probably we would not react fast enough as the "new mal fork" could for example allow for 1 block powerdown or 3 sec powerdown which would give all of the participating malicious players to get back and sell their STEEM in 1 block or 3 seconds and re-fork back to the earlier fork as the malicious "whales" would have no SteemPower but only liquid STEEM to be dumped on exchanges. It could all start and be over in 60 seconds.
Can you think of another one?
POW & POS Networks has been hacked multiple times with a variety of success. DPOS has afaik never successfully been hacked
- Bitcoin once was hacked to pay miners millions of Bitcoins - the mistake was fixed and the chain rolled back for integrity
- Ethereum once made a DAO which ended up splitting the community into Ethereum & Ethereum Classic under the slogan "code is law".
- Multiple low-traffic POW Blockchains has been delisted from exchanges due to double-spend attacks carried out successfully with almost no miners on the network. Even going so far as to "inform the exchanges about new Block Explorers"
- Even Merged Mining coins has been hacked from the get-go to provide a certain address with a never ending supply of coins, which happened in ORGcoin back in 2014 when the developer simply turned off all warning and instead made the network allow intended transaction go through. IE: Instead of a warning about not having enough coins in the wallet to send a trillion coins, it would just send a trillion coins.... and register on the blockchain.
- The list goes on and on and on - Many tokens/blockchains has been released for all the wrong reason, they will eventually be found out if they have not already.
Do I believe STEEM DPOS is in danger?
No.
Why not?
The whales, developers and witnesses/block-producers in STEEM have met each other, love the platform (which is STEEM the Blockchain) and would work together any time to prevent bad things to happen to STEEM. 24/7 there is always some competent people watching over their businesses, and if something does not work the way it should be, you can be dead certain that special phones will be ringing to wake up special people to aid STEEM at a moments notice. STEEM is the blockchain with the greatest fire brigade known to man, no matter the day to day politics - if the main chain is under attack, it will be mutually defended victoriously!
Us Steemians build together the best blockchain with the best people who will continue becoming better and better and better year after year after year... Nobody is quite like us
Hope to see you at SteemFiesta in South America 1-5 December. Check out the @SteemFiesta page more information and surprises! Oh - and also come and visit me on SteemSpeak Discord at: http://SteemSpeak.com (redirects)
Sincerely,
@fyrstikken - Please vote for my witness, @fyrst-witness at: https://steemitwallet.com/~witnesses
Thank you :)
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PoW Mining = Good for Power Plants - DPOS = Good for the environment & Much Faster!
You are the first whale here that emphasizes this.
This is not the only reason why POW and with it ETH et al will not have a future, but a very important one!
Interesting worse case scenarios. I believe the second one would be very hard to accomplish as well. There are close to 200 million STEEM vested and only a little over 112 million liquid, of which about 80m on exchanges. To gather enough SP to become a 'dictator', one would have to convince many stakeholders to power down and sell their stakes. And it wouldn't happen overnight, there would be a counter-reaction, which doesn't have to be a bid for stake.
Good spotting.
Supply: 311,911,024 STEEM (Worth $111,352,236 SBD); $8,902,205 SBD (7.403% of supply); 111,562,410 Liquid STEEM (35.767% of supply)
Plus, purchasing enough stake to force vote their own witnesses via an exchange would definitely pump up the price of steem to at least $0.7 or more, making the purchase even harder.
That and the fact that steemit Inc could (and most likely, except they want the death of their platform) use their own stake to counter the hackers voting Power.
On steem?
Self proclaimed community watchdogs are actually hacking and stalking people.
This group https://steemit.com/@steemspeak is ran by https://steemit.com/@fyrstikken, They are hacking people that enter this discord server https://discordapp.com/invite/sqxV63P . Once you are hacked they profile you long enough to know all of your activities. They introduce workplace gangstalking visits and bring it to your attention cleverly and discretly so only you get it. They are very covert and tricky with everthing they say and do in this server. Some claim to have worked for or are working with the FBI and the NSA. Mixed with decomisioned traders and coding criminals, Its a scary mix of creepy people and thier intent is to drive you crazy and deplete everything you have ever aquired in life, even your freedom.
My hacking started with them introducing ransomeware that has options, dump my coin or delete my system drive. They acnowledged this to me in the server as it happened.
This hacking and stalking is done so they can manipulate the target to pump and dump for them. Threating and Making victims wear head phones, so nobody in your household can hear thier dramitization towards you. In 2017 this server was sidemarked as a drama show for entertainment purposes only as en excuse to say whatever they want all the way down to killing a politician. They have a server side command called "hey asshole" making a promt come up instructing everyone to wear headphones. They want everyone wearing headphones so nobody in your vicinity can hear them mess with you. Fystikken says its because of "mic feedback" but once your a target you get exactly why they make eveyone wear headphones.
With headphones on they subliminally direct victims with very low suggestive whispers mixed into their radio shows music. Combine this with them being able to manipulate their own individual outputs sound volume, which they control on the server side, they can pick what individual people hear and what at any given time. They decide who you hear on the server and change the volume controls for them. They can make some really low or off for those trying to investigate. They control who hears what and know who is who.
This team will find absolutely everything they can about you prior to using thier sugjestive and threatning program. They Introduce pictures that mean something only to the target, inducing paranoia while they watch and listen thru all of your circumvented devices. They are very aware of what makes you tick. They know your work schedule and use it for work stalking along side of this. I received multiple threating letters to my work and home addressed to my screen name from this group.
Fyrstikken tells people to sell their houses to buy crypto then dumps it on them. He has done many pump and dump scams. Quatloo being one of the first I witnessed and was done multiple times thru 2016 and 2017 them. It should be investigated for fraud. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=655793.0
We always have the chance to shoot ourselves in the foot by doing bad forks.
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