Ouch, I didn't realize that one spammer could grind the network to a halt.

That makes me even more worried because these spammers are all over social media with their bots advertising for ETH and spend tens of thousands of USD to do it. Facebook and other places started banning crytpo ads because so much of it is a scam and tricks the low information crowd into "moon money"... Doing a simple wallet transfer for 0.001 SBD is a pretty inexpensive way to spam the network, it would take less than 2,500 USD worth of SBD to send one wallet transaction to 1 million people. Yikes...

And those same people raising all the money for SMTs will have the funds to do a lot more than that.

The more I learn about how bad this is all going to be the more it makes me want to fire up a node to help in the capacity I am able to.

Everything I am reading about the Steem blockchain is proving more and more this is unsustainable for every metric. I am here for the uncensorable aspect of blog posting and it would really suck to see this go away.

I am gonna reach out to krnel and ask him about getting a node up and running as I talk to him sometimes, though I likely don't have the funds to run a full node if it is too expensive.

Voted you for witness.

Thanks.