I like humans, but...
So, today I was thinking about our security...
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. -Georgia Guidestones
The Bitshares blockchain Witness nodes have to be run by humans right now. Can we replace those humans with bots that get voted in to do the same job? Our Witness nodes are scattered all over the Earth so as long as we have a routable internet or meshnet and electricity, then in theory we could just "hire" some reliable bots to run/secure our network, right? Autonomous bots that can upgrade themselves, are impervious to social engineering, can be coded with "3 laws", keep the blockchain on IPFS, reboot or wake-on-lan when necessary and so on... I think we could reduce our financial overhead and risk quite a bit by eliminating the reliance on those humans. I know that sounds bad, but please just follow along with me here if ya could...
Bots can save us money and lower risk. The (unpaid) Committee sets it up, and multisig takes care of the rest.
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below, thanx! :)