The SMT code wasn't finished. I agree, we were told it was (or at least, almost all of us misunderstood what we were told), but the reality is that substantial portions still needed to be written and more

It was implemented as part of curation reward changes.

It was discussed long ago in the original roadmap for the HF (in the comments, which is where the elimination of the quasi-linear curve got discussed and decided on) and the removal of this curve has been

yep, my brain was just much more focused on end of June at the time I wrote this...

Order of voting no longer matters within a window. The first window is set for 24 hours. So if you vote on a post within the first 24 hours, you get the same amount or reward, regardless of when other

Correct, you can vote as early as you like now, without any penalty.

The reward to authors is also linear.

Looking on hiveblocks.com, it appears he is an early miner (first mining reward on Apr 2, 2016). That would also explain why he has multiple similarly named accounts: when you mined, you needed to create

Given Hive is increasingly aiming to be a platform for blockchain-based apps, it would be interesting to see a graph of raw transaction activity over time.

I don't think any of the issues above would impact the rate at which blocks are synced. But, anecdotally, it seems like we're getting about twice as many transactions included into blocks lately (i.e.

As you say, I don't anticipate any problems due to the amount of testing that's been done, but it always best to be prepared :-) The snapshot bug still managed to slip through all our previous testing,

I laughed the first time I saw the term "impermanent loss" used with respect to AMM (and I haven't changed my opinion since). One of the interesting things about financial analysis is how easy

Yes, I also tried to do a little research yesterday, out of curiosity. My little bit of research of people with this last name only turned up people I would have called "white" (including some

Thanks for the performance info, I had no idea a plain witness node could create a snapshot so fast.

Not sure about the racial aspect, but sounds like everything else you've deduced is correct, from what I've read. This is such a depressing story, yet it's not even surprising to read about events like

Ouch, I'm late to the news, but sorry to hear about this. I hope they get a better handle on what's going on and that you make a full recovery soon.

It already exists in hive.blog :-p See my comment above...

It's not a sensible strategy for a long term holder, but you can see how it would make sense to someone who plans to quickly cash in on their post rewards and not hold it.

I asked around, and it looks like your friend can opt out of the beneficiary payment by going to the settings page on hive.blog. It looks like this:

No worries, it is easy to get mixed up which subsystem manages a given API method on an API server. Thanks for the report anyways.