Chronological protection of Steem Blockchain governability

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As many people already know, our network has vulnerabilities regarding governability and I already addressed those in another post.

Another user(onealfa@onealfa) posted an idea that made me consider another point regarding security.

I disagree with his position of valuing more votes from older accounts, but I think we should have a chronological safeguard to prevent another Coup d'etat in the Blockchain:

The Idea:

  • All SP influencing the account, acquired by either Power Up of Delegation should have a 7-day gap before beginning to affect Witness vote positively;
  • All votes casted to witnesses should only be computed 2.5 days after been casted.
  • Power-down, undelegation or uncasted votes have immediate effect on witnesses.

Justification:

  • Such measures would give the whole community plenty of time to come up with a strategy in case of hostile takeover.

Further Thoughts

  • Just reminding whoever comes to read this article that such measure should be implemented alongside others, like the Vote Dilution and Vote Expiration.
    • Vote Dilution I believe is the best suited measure against a single party controlling the whole Security Council
    • Vote Expiration is to prevent dead accounts from influencing the living ones;
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