RE: The account-based voting revolution
Not sure I follow how this would mean the end of curation projects - actually it seems this would boost them up. Curie for example has the second most followed curation trail on steemauto, currently with 995 users trailing their vote behind. Under current system, Curie's influence comes mostly from the large @hendrikdegrote vote trailing and to a lesser extent the ~100k SP that Curie itself votes with. So yes, if it goes to one account, one vote, those two large votes would not have as much influence. But currently, the 995 trailing votes from steemauto mean next to nothing in terms of the payout that a post receives on a @curie upvote because the vast majority of the trailing voters are low stake users. But it is still nearly 1000 users who think that Curie is doing a good job curating. Wouldn't those trailing votes mean that Curie actually would have more influence if this is the way things went?
My own curation project, @r-bot, has ~100 voters who have joined its curation trail on steemauto. People have joined the trail because @r-bot consistently upvotes good content. I haven't promoted it much, @r-bot does not regularly post, nor leave a comment. The team of manual curators just quietly goes out and upvotes good content. Wouldn't this change mean that the @r-bot vote would suddenly be worth a hell of a lot more than the ~ $.50 the manual curators who vote with @r-bot can hand out now?
Yes, that depends on the type of curation project. The projects which have 2 million SP delegated to them by one or two people, but don't have much of a trail will lose out; while something like Curie which has a large popular following but few delegations may benefit. I'm fairly sure Ned didn't absolutely mean "one vote is one vote", there has to be some systems to keep spammers and dust accounts from exerting so much influence; while also offering greater influence to active members. Let's wait and see what they come up with.