What a sexy beast.
Starting it off with a bang.
The creator of Bitshares, Steem, and EOS is quite the enigma.
What's his angle?
What's he really thinking?
Is he a crypto idealist or a corporate lapdog?
Is he a Trojan Horse or a boon for any network he touches?
Is he just fickle and whimsical and likes starting new things?
I felt the need to eventually field this question because no one else seems to be touching it with a ten-foot pole (for good reason). 
I mean I get it. I've built plenty of things where I'm like, "Shit, I spent a lot of time on this but if I had the option, I'd start from ground zero with a fresh slate." Trying to untangle a spaghetti factory is harder than just starting over a lot of the time. Especially when the thing you just built is decentralized and doesn't even technically belong to you anymore. How frustrating!
There's no such thing as a free phone.
The cake is a lie.
Hours later...
Back in Summer 2016 he was rocking Steem something pretty fierce as we can see. $9000 payout for "Groundbreaking Account Recovery Solution". Funny huh? How we just take account recovery for granted. It truly is a groundbreaking solution that adds security without adding any attack vectors to the network. The recovery account can only help you recover your account, and can't conspire to steal it. Pretty smort.
But as we see on March 15, 2017
Now, for those of us that don't speak
I just had an idea for EOS and I've been working on it for 48 hours straight like a boss.
You can tell from the post that his mind is still unravelling from the gravity of quitting Block.One. All the reasons it failed and all the reasons he quit are just lurking in the background going unsaid. He talks quite a bit about EOS for someone who just quit and is now posting on Hive about it. Nothing new there.
Lastly, anyone building anything that results in economic profit and loss imposes tax consequences on their users. Tokens like Voice or Hive create tax events every time they change hands. This is why I decline rewards when I post on Hive, they are not worth the tax accounting. With the growing sophistication of the tax authorities and the loss of privacy, none of these token-based ecosystems / platforms stand a chance unless they automatically do all of the tax calculations and boil it down to a 1099. The only way to automate such calculations is to have full knowledge of every purchase price and sale price. Such things are not possible if users are trading on multiple exchanges in a decentralized manner.
The previous four posts did not have declined rewards.
You gonna make a tax aggregator for Hive so everyone pays theirs properly? Make sure the government get's theirs? I wish you would! That would certainly settle the crypto idealist vs corporate lapdog debate in one fell swoop.
All-in on passion-projects only.
Mostly the post is about how even DPOS can't scale. DPOS was supposed to be this epic scaling solution, and it is: compared to the "competition", but at the same time any "dapp" that wants to scale up to tens of millions of active users is going to be forced to create centralized solutions that are subject to regulations. Of course I'm still holding out hope that second layer off-chain stuff and torrents are going to eliminate a lot of that burden but that's a discussion for another time.
The point here is
@dan!Unless he's playing grandmaster 4D chess and did this all on purpose,
Most creators fall into the same category. No one wants to build something they're passionate about and then trust other people to manage it. Why risk it? The chance of corruption is high.
He centralized the network out of greed and the need to control it, to the point of restarting the entire chain so that he could get that ninjamine just right. Then he designed consensus so that the ninjamine could elect 30 top witnesses based off the stake of one account.
The icing on the cake was all the claims about how DPOS is more decentralized than POW because each witness controls exactly 5% of the network while mining pools are much worse... even though one account can elect all witnesses.
So Which validators are more decentralized!??!?!!11
The tradeoff is decentralization vs scaling; you know this.
You can't have both.
I get it, I really do, but you can stop getting high off your own supply.
I will allow it.
We've had enough of that nonsense.
This is an issue between ideals and real-world implementation.
It never works out the way you think it will.
It's not the things that
It would just be crazy if it did. As THE lead dev and founder of the project in addition to all the other experience, I'm gonna go ahead and make a wild guess that
Something
Hive is a primary example of an entity that should not exist: a network that refuses to die.
Do you know what a 99% drop in value does to a corporation? Completely 100% destroys it, or guts it enough to get bought out by a vulture capitalist on the cheap (JSUN: say not The Defiler's name!). That's what happened to the precious Steemit Inc. We will miss you, good riddance!
Do you know what a 99% drop in value does to a network? To a community? What sickening adversity does to a ride-or-die group?
And we are a ridin'.
We are in the: "hard times create strong men" phase (ignore obvious sexism). We are in a consolidation period. The fat and muscle have been stripped away and all that remains are blood, sweat, tears, bone, sinew, and skin in the game.
It's all piss and vinegar.
And what came out the other end?
Smite all the non-believers!
Hive to the moon!
Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if it's your own!
I believe!
My life for Aiur!
The point is that while this is an inclusive network and everyone is welcome, few will be trusted. Link Marines and the XRP Army have nothing on us (although looks like XRP is catching up). If you thought sports fans were nuts, just wait until such zealotry has a monetary incentive and DIEHARD community behind it.
Hive no longer has leaders: it has voices. Some are louder than others. Ask anyone around these parts who the biggest zealot is. Who's the most ride or die person on the network with the most influence and persona? I don't even have to say the name, everyone already knows. That's how tight we are here at this point.
The zealots of Hive are inspiring. When I look around and see my peers I say to myself, "Yes, this is my team, and I am proud." The ragtag rebels continue to work on rocket. Hive to the moon. Abundance for everyone.
Didn't you successfully launch a BILLION dollar ICO? Haven't you been working like nonstop for like however many years as one of the most experienced blockchain devs/executives in the space? Aren't you a huge Bitcoin bull of top of all of that? I assume Block.One resources went into Bitcoin for a reason. Now worth $5B.
https://bitcointreasuries.org/
And you have the audacity to come here, shilling your other projects (which is fine), on the founding account, claiming to be impressed by this community's progress, resilience, and decentralization, without actually putting any money where your mouth is? None huh? $0?
Tom Hanks is in trouble now!
Because something doesn't add up when the guy who makes $12,000 a year has 3x the stake of the founder. It's not that we're asking for handouts... oh no... we are way way way past that point. It's that when you come back to this network as such a wishy-washy cryptic enigma that is so classically on-brand for The
Something doesn't quite add up here.
It takes a lot to earn trust these days.
@danTruly, this is a guy who just keeps going and going and going. Apparently the next project down the line is a book:
Consider for a moment that everything you think you know just might be wrong or incomplete.
... A prison... for your mind.
So yeah one of my witness partners is reading it now, and apparently it is classic
I'm reading the book between doing other things. On page 74 and wondering if he's ever going to get to the point
this thing is dan af
I have spent the past decade experimenting with
technologies designed to be resistant to capture by small groups
...
If that was his goal, then I'd say he's failed miserably at every attempt
...
Proof of Stake blockchains, like the ones I
have created, tend to select for the wealthy and
cryptocurrency exchanges which manage deposits of other people’s tokens
...
at least he's honest about it
...
jfc dan
page 100: so everything I said for the past 100 pages doesn't really matter
...
... larimer always falls for the same damn trap: he builds a world in his head and fails to understand how people would use it differently than he imagined
You heard it here first folks! This book is the most
I see dead crypto!
Remember this movie? Spoiler alert: Samuel L. Jackson creates a bunch of disasters on purpose and kills a lot of people just so he can find his foil: the Unbreakable Bruce Willis. Immune to all harm and sickness. That's what us old people call the Shyamalan Twist. Year 2000 didn't have Netflix. They can't all be winners.
So is Hive the Bruce Willis to
There's a reason no one really talks about
No one really wants to come out and be like: F-
Sure, it might feel like a small victory that
Users on Hive are salty and grizzled and it's not like we're just going to get our hopes up because the founder pops in to talk about EOS, scaling, regulations, taxes, and a book that is apparently a random stream of consciousness as it relates to overall generic governance.
There's a lot of untapped potential floating around on Hive (nothing new there). The next two years will be pinnacle. Getting new users during a mega-bull run is easy; it's retaining those users during the inevitable crash that's tough. Maybe
The zealots of Hive will grind forward regardless.
For The Swarm!
Can someone have an HR rep email me?
Step on my throat... you rudely large man!
Break my fingers... you brooding mountain!
Wow! I'm the worst.
What's wrong with me?
Thoughts?
