I think that on the whole this will be a good thing for EOS, of course, it's all good exposure, and I can't wait to see if Thomas is going to get his dead crow to nail to the gate post that he always spoke about at the beginning.
I hope for the sake of the legitimate BP businesses and their staff and families that something will be done about the 'fake BPs' (I'm going to call anyone that now who is not running an api endpoint).
I hope something will be done soon to stop these fake BPs from stealing EOS from token holders.
I'm currently unable to engage on any other EOS topic until the issue of fake BPs is resolved because anything else just feels like a moot point while fake bps are creaming off EOS tokens every day of > 100 EOS and they aren't even running any servers, website or anything!
I am suggeting that as an emergency measure the top 21 agree to unregproducer any fake bp that is calling claimrewards but not publishing an api endpoint.
Why would anyone think that a fake bp should get paid?
All the best for the Alliance, I hope it will actually DO something, not just talk.
Obviously I have to remain commercial about my activities so please allow me just one more paragraph to promote a vote for eosukblocpro . If you would like your interests represented by a team of professional and down to earth business people with experience in internet consultancy, technical project management, web app development, business administration and education, then we have all the ingredients required to make a great BP, including an endpoint at api.eosuk.io :-)
We published an EOS Wallet for Mac and Windows too (which you can also use to vote for 30 not fake BPs) at https://eosuk.io/wallet
We would love to get your support so we can help to nurture and protect the EOS Blockchain, starting with calling to account any fake looking BPs. EOS UK is campaigning hard for votes and at the time of writing, is just ONE place away from achieving Standby Block Producer pay, so every vote really does count!
Please contact me if you would like to support this initiative or need any hep with your EOS.
Best regards
Roger
EOS UK
The Alliance has no power to "do anything" other than bring people together and talk about it. Which I imagine is not what you are looking for :-)
In terms of real action - the main thing to do is to vote those BPs out. Another possibility is to file a dispute with ECAF. For that you would need some evidence of wrongdoing. I'm not sure what that would be, but if the regproducer calls for open API endpoints, and they are not doing that for some reason, then that sounds like a technical breach.