I like this change. It burns DEC for those who are not paying attention; and allows the programs with NFTY Arcade and other 1 on 1 agreements between players, card holders and scholars to continue as they do now.

Allow me to elaborate, though:

All new reward cards are soul bound. Traditionally, the market for 1BCX cards were in legendary or epic cards that are not part of the "ghost cards" or starter set.

This means that there will be less of these 1 BCX starter set cards thrown onto the market by bots and people in hopes of people trying to fulfil Collection Power for higher leagues.

This change is done in concert with other changes that make the game more efficient for those who are paying attention as new players:

• Higher R Share for cards levelled appropriately to the league
• Proposed future SPS staking requirement in lieu of collection power requirements for higher leagues.

I think that this is a change that needs to be observed not in isolation, but in in concert with the other changes that are on the roadmap that everyone knows are coming, along with those that have already been implemented.

Finally, a question: has the Splinterlands team contemplated the impact that a third party developer may have if they were to build an alternative marketplace that did not use sm_rent tx; but instead did "delegations for x" instead?

Would this not defeat the purpose of this proposed "tx fee" on the markets, and just shift the load (and presumed AWS server costs) - elsewhere?