Hi. I appreciate that, although I currently have no way to confirm you are you. Please contact me through an external source (Discord, etc.) so we can discuss further.

That's a fair point. I personally don't think there is really a good argument to be made for vote decay (outside of the cases I talked about in the post), but I agree it is probably not right to throw

I disagree, and feel that is the wrong approach. Everyone who cast votes within the past few weeks is obviously still an active stakeholder. Stakeholders are responsible for adjusting their votes accordingly,

I'm fairly flexible in terms of the number. 1 year was just an example that I came up with. If we get to the point where there is consensus around the idea and we are actually at a point that we will be

I don't know the reasons behind the original decisions. In terms of why there aren't more than 20, the more "consensus" witnesses there are, the longer it takes to form an irreversible block.

I still see it as a useful feature, but ultimately the responsibility falls on stakeholders to use it properly - just the same as witness voting. There is danger of people who just "proxy and forget"

I think you'll see that many find this post offensive. Ok.. Telling people "you are not doing enough" when many have been doing more than some in the top 20 for quite a while is absolutely ridiculous

You are free to complain to whoever you want, but you are asking a group who does not have influence over the largest stakeholders to change the voting patterns of the largest stakeholders.. In my view,

It is up to the stakeholders to choose who is/isn't a witness, not the other witnesses. I am technically a stakeholder too, but my vote is not enough to change whether someone is in the top 20. I am downvoting

Yes, permission granted. Please just link back to the original post as a reference.

@sgt-dan just let me know in the comments that ionomy has a BTC-STEEM market now, so you have the option to sell there if you want.

@sgt-dan just let me know in the comments that ionomy has a BTC-STEEM market now, so you have the option to sell there if you want.

Oh, cool. I don't remember seeing that when I was exploring it before. Either I totally missed it, or they recently added it :)

It's a valid request. You would need to reach out to the individual witnesses.

I am waiting for Bittrex to open back up. No idea how long that will take.

Part of that is a "chicken and egg" thing. If more people start doing more trades, volume will pick up.

Sorry about that. I had a typo in the post title / URL and the only way to fix it was to re-post. I have requested that users downvote it down to a 0.00 balance.

They already demonstrated on the Steem chain that they were.

Everything including witness votes will copy over, although you will be able to update witness votes on each chain independently after the fork.