accept that proof of brain will always be gamed Agreed The present downvote issue is driving many long term users away, and that will likely escalate under HF 21. The current downovote system is horribly

So curious - what was your motivation behind buying the $10k+ worth of STEEM? How will the proposed changes affect your reason(s) for thinking it was a good decision?

Curation rewards will be one potential motivator.

I have put in a lot of effort towards advancing what I believe was the best proposal. There are 19 other top witnesses though (plus the devs doing the coding+testing work), and others have their own views.

So what do you recommend we do?

There is no date yet.

Real author rewards are practically non existent because there are practically no stakeholders taking the time to find and vote on content. Higher curation rewards, along with the other changes are an

Only if enough stakeholders vote for your proposal to get paid to professionally write. It is certainly possible, but I don’t know how likely it will be that you get sufficient support. Can you make the

That's fair. I do do other stuff too. I should probably do a better job at "selling myself" as a lot of things are done behind the scenes and people don't really see the impacts. Again, I'm not

Responded on your post, since it seems like a better place to have the discussion.

Hi Bernie. Believe it or not, I do appreciate / enjoy it when you start these discussions. It is an important topic that we need to keep talking about, and you are one of the main people who can actually

No. Please read the Steem white paper.

Agree on almost all of your points. If we have better incentives for people to search out quality content though, IMO that would be better (not worse) for new members.

There is almost no legitimate curation going on today. We have tons of authors creating good content, but very little in terms of content consumption. I hear your concerns, and they are valid - but I disagree

One is the benefits to the SPS is that after it is live, the community can make proposals such as yours, and then we will actually have a means to pay for the development.

I’m not sure what specifically you are referring to. I’m not the one who came up with the name. In terms of hoping that improving the economics of the blockchain will potentially increase the STEEM price

It is possible, although it would be more development for Steemit, more things to test, which would mean more time before the fork. There is already a lot of pushback from the hardfork containing too many

I was up for it, but again - the main thing was that it would affect backup witnesses too.

Myself and others have put a lot of work into trying to get Steem listed on more exchanges.