PostsCommentsPayoutsplanter (43)in LeoFinance • 4 years agoRE: One HiveUnrelated, but you seem to like to research. Look into acidyo, strawhat, hivegc etc. You will be surprised at what you find.planter (43)in LeoFinance • 4 years agoRE: Lets organize and buildUnrelated, but you seem to like to research. Look into acidyo, strawhat, hivegc etc. You will be surprised at what you find.planter (43)in #dhf • 4 years agoRE: Hive-Engine DAO Funding ProposalDon't you guys already collect revenue via the deposit and withdrawal fees? Why is the community paying for something that you will benefit from monetarily? Also, $100k? What…planter (43)in Threespeak • 4 years agoRE: Let's Get StartedYep bingo, and stop paying out ridiculous payouts via the DAO. It's a leak in our dam, needs to be plugged.planter (43)in Threespeak • 4 years agoRE: Let's Get StartedThis is true but a surging price is the best advertisement there is, and people collecting large payouts from the DAO on a regular basis is part of the problem why HIVE continues…planter (43)in #hiveblockchain • 5 years agoRE: Hive Hardfork 24: Upcoming Release Candidate, Testnet, and Other InfoJust because that stake has been removed doesn't mean someone else couldn't acquire a very large stake and power it up over time and do exactly the same thing. Sure it wouldn't…planter (43)in #hiveblockchain • 5 years agoRE: Hive Hardfork 24: Upcoming Release Candidate, Testnet, and Other InfoThis doesn't make attacking HIVE easier, it makes controlling it significantly harder. Right now it takes significantly less HP to control the consensus witness spots than 5…planter (43)in #hiveblockchain • 5 years agoRE: Hive Hardfork 24: Upcoming Release Candidate, Testnet, and Other InfoI have thought about this plenty and worked out the napkin math as well and it all comes down to one easy trade-off. Someone preventing something from happening is infinitely…planter (43)in #hiveblockchain • 5 years agoRE: Hive Hardfork 24: Upcoming Release Candidate, Testnet, and Other InfoHow do you figure? 1 vote with a sliding voting scale so you can use all your voting power on 1 witness or however many you choose by adjusting the voting weight down.planter (43)in Hive Improvement • 5 years agoRE: Hive Improvement Proposal: Decentralize blacklists on HiveChanging from 30 votes down to 5 votes (or 1 vote with a slider) wouldn't have stopped it? My napkin math looks like it would have, but I haven't double checked it yet. And…planter (43)in #hiveblockchain • 5 years agoRE: Hive Hardfork 24: Upcoming Release Candidate, Testnet, and Other InfoCan we also include changing the number of consensus witnesses to something larger, like say 100 for added security? That or change the number of votes from 30 to say 5, or even…planter (43)in Hive Improvement • 5 years agoRE: Hive Improvement Proposal: Decentralize blacklists on HiveThis isn't really related to this proposal, but do you have plans for an overhaul of the witness structure so we don't see similar things happen again? For example, could we move…planter (43)in #steem • 5 years agoRE: Steem Consensus Witness Statement: Code UpdatedDoesn't this look like the top witnesses just ensuring they will remain the top witnesses?planter (43)in #steem • 5 years agoRE: Steem Consensus Witness Statement: Code UpdatedDoesn't this look like a form of the Top witnesses just entrenching themselves in the top witness spots?planter (43)in LeoFinance • 5 years agoRE: Communities Are Finally Here And Sun Votes On TronPeople talk about this like it suddenly could become centralized in terms of witness selections. Um, it already is. Basically 2 accounts dictate the Top 20 witnesses. Last time I…planter (43)in #steem • 5 years agoRE: Steem - Is Justin Sun's latest YouTube Video today cause for concern?I have long wondered why witnesses don't decline payment on most of their posts? They are extremely well paid in comparison to authors yet they somewhat double dip by also taking…planter (43)in #steem • 5 years agoRE: One last middle finger from ned...Steem doesn't have that great of a rep out there eitherplanter (43)in #steem • 5 years agoRE: Steem, You're Not Listening To Your CustomerI agree.planter (43)in Project HOPE • 5 years agoRE: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Let's all step back and figure out what can be done to stop LOSING STEEM USERSI think he makes a great point here. The downvote has been rationalized until its supporters are blue in the face but the reality is simply that it is far too negative to work as…planter (43)in Project HOPE • 5 years agoRE: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Let's all step back and figure out what can be done to stop LOSING STEEM USERSYep, you are exactly right. The downvote button is a weapon for negatively much more than it is tool for accurately valuing content. The downvote needs to go, or at least go…