This should help: Quantum analogue computing - PDF We could say that discrete mathematics pairs better with digital systems (for obvius reasons) than with analogue ones. And continuous mathematics pairs

@moeknows I upvoted your blog post to help improve the visibility of your proposal. However I don't agree with certain aspects: no belief or opinion is more valid than another. Therefore, such a system

Don't be shy about posting a link to your proposal, doing now for you: Steem Proposal - Account Rating System From your proposal: To put it another way, no belief or opinion is more valid than another.

How Google did it is that they manually picked a number of websites that they considered trustworthy and gave them a high reputation. Looks similar to how Ripple is decentralizing their validator nodes.

A fork using the same DPoS protocol would be the short term solution. But DPoS needs to evolve for a NEWSTEEM to survive long term.

At the same time, with our current binary computing (newtonian, as opposed to the still-in-infancy quantum computing) we quickly run into limits of space (to store data) and speed of operation (to communicate

Don't be sorry @joeyarnoldvn, the idea is to ignite a debate.

@elindos I'm not into games, but I wish you lot of success for your enterprise!

DPoS is fine, when the cost to take over is extreme. It think DPoS suits Bitshares better, but BTS wasn't designed as a "social blockchain". STEEM as a social blockchain created human agreements

So the only real option here is to fork out the ninja mined stake and start over on a forked Steem blockchain. A fork is the short term solution. In my opinion the DPOS protocol has encountered its governance

Certainly parameters such as account-age wont be affected by peer to peer vote. Also if REP value increases it should mean that an attack on sucha a chain would be more costly. The cost calculation for

Maybe a good REDPOS implementation could use the account-age (or the entire REP) as a parameter affecting not only the eligibility of an account, but the voting power of every account. If "NEWSTEEM"

Yes account age is jut one parameter. A good REDPOS implementation would logically depend on a good REP system development as REP would be a key aspect of such a protocol. What Justin Sun did to STEEM

DPOS is not a democracy it's more like an anarchocapitalist experiment. Is not 1 person 1 vote (or 1 account 1 vote). It is based on ownership rights. The blockchain is a consortium of several SP owners,

A potential witness doesn't need much SP on their own. A potential witness just needs that users with enough SP vote for them in order to rank higher. This Justin Sun experience has shown us an

Thank you!

Decentralization is very important, because there is a belief that the decentralization end up brings us mass profit. Steem price(profit) and decentralization need to go together. After Justin entering

Agreed. It's about two different subjects: A) Protocol philosophy. If REDPOS protocol is an improvement over DEPOS for a social blockchain. B) If a specific implementation on a certain protocol is a better

@nonameslefttouse the implementation of a REDPOS protocol would indeed need a very well thought REP system (account age should be a parameter, of course). I am aware that the current REP on STEEM was

Having twenty real witnesses all representing their own personal interests in the top twenty meant the chain was 'decentralized' and as secure as could be. The blockchain would continue to run flawlessly