There's often talks about our unstake function taking too long and people preferring a faster method. At first glance some may argue this is so people can leave the platform quicker but I believe the better argument is that most outsiders are more used to unlocking their staked tokens faster on other chains and the 13 week function on our chain being too long for their liking.
I figured I'd post this poll and at the same time give some of my thoughts to a potential solution that may both keep the security that staked Hive along with account recovery offers to users while at the same time bringing the unstaking period down from 13 weeks. I'll add this as a poll after the common suggestions I've heard over time.
13 weeks - Keep it as it is
4 weeks - unstake your Hive in 25% increments every week (not counting curation rewards in the meantime)
1 week* - turbo powerdown (opt in - with potentially some burns), let's outsiders try the influence and rewards on hive while letting them change their minds about their investment quick. This is something that's been discussed in the past, I believe @theycallmedan suggested an option to let people choose how they powerdown and if they want out fast it would take a partial stake when choosing this option and burn that hive.
4+1 weeks - Okay, so this is my idea surrounding a faster powerdown than we have now while at the same time covering the 30 day account recovery option that our chain offers accounts which many others may not. This would basically give you a weekly powerdown the same as we have now 1/13th of your stake for the next 4 weeks, then on the 5th powerdown you'd get the remaining 8/13 all at once.
The idea is that if in the odd cases you have people who are unavailable if their account gets hacked to recover them in 0-4 weeks, we wouldn't give hackers 25% to 75% of your stake if 100% of it occurs on the same day as you got hacked before your recovery timer runs out. Instead, they'd only access up to 7.6923% per week the same as now but once recovery deadline has run out it won't change anything regarding what happens with the rest of the stake thus giving those who prefer a faster unstake the option to get it all on the 5th week.
Now this idea and option only retains value behind it if account recovery timer maintains its 30-day limit, if that were to change to be longer or shorter this unstaking mechanism wouldn't make much sense.
Other - suggest another unstaking option.
I'll keep this poll at only one vote per suggestion.