Steemit Inc owns 24%+ of all existing Steem. If they are in for the long run, then it shouldn't be an issue to concretize their commitment. This move could help reassure investors in regard to Steemit Inc long term commitment. Steemit Inc has been capital in the development of the Steem software so far and thus the importance of such a move would carry a lot of weight.
Maybe Steemit Inc could lock their current undelegated Steem in a smart contract that would allow them to power down only 10% of them every year over the next 10 years. This should be more than enough to allow them to cover the cost of their operations and if the price of Steem were to go up more than 10% a year this means their overall capital would increase over time. 10% is only a recommendation.
I don't know how complex such a feature would be to add but I definitely think it should be discussed.
Source:
https://steemd.com
https://percentagecalculator.net/
https://steemitboard.com/ranking/index.php?p=0&s=vests
https://www.maxpixel.net/Steam-Steam-I-Virtual-Currency-Coin-Cryptocurrency-2996781
Hey, buddy I am not sure I like what you are doing. Did someone from Steemit hurt your feelings or something, or are you paid to attack Steemit Inc and @ned every day?
Mark Zuckerberg owns 28% of Facebook (still), why do you assume Steemit Inc. and @Ned Scott even want to sell their stake in the network they develop for?
Please tell me what your true purpose is with these non constructive articles, they reek of anger, spite and jealousy IMO.
Sincerely,
Fyrstikken INC.
(No, Our stake is not for sale also) @fyrstikken & @fyrst-witness
I'm sorry you're taking it this way. It's only a suggestion. If they accept fine everyone is better but if they don't, that's fine too. They are free to do what they wish for sure and I wouldn't want it otherwise.
Edit: My intentions are noble and because I respect you a lot, your comments and the comments from other people from SteemSpeak have made me reflect on the way I should go about trying to change things in the future. So I thank you for the comment as I think it helped me get better at what I'm trying to achieve. Sincerely. I stand behind the posts I wrote but I'll do things very differently from that point on. Thanks again!
Asking for witness vote decay is attacking Steemit Inc every day. Who's really paid here.
Why do you feel that asking for witness vote decay means "attacking Steemit" ? There are other people (including myself) who think that "witness vote decay" is an interesting feature that could potentially help the system: it would "stimulate" witnesses to not "sleep on their laurels" but rather go out and continuously engage with the community. Like in politics: if politicians were assured of your vote forever, they would make even less efforts than they make today, don't you think ?
https://steemit.com/steem/@inventor16/fyrstikken-believes-that-bringing-up-suggestions-to-the-steem-community-is-the-same-as-attacking-ned-and-steemit-inc
Yes
Bizarre comment. Witness vote decay is something that Steemit Inc themselves have suggested in the past.
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/proposed-changes-to-steem-economy
https://steemit.com/steem/@inventor16/fyrstikken-believes-that-bringing-up-suggestions-to-the-steem-community-is-the-same-as-attacking-ned-and-steemit-inc
If several persons misunderstood you, maybe, just maybe, you could have found a better way to express your thoughts? :-)
Then again, it could also be that we are all stupid, it happens! :-)
And believe me, I'm the first guy to deplore not having enough time to read more articles on Steemit!
Ah ok, now I see what you mean.
Questioning witness power != Attacking Steemit Inc
We know we are all hurt because of the Steem price but everyone is hurt because of this bear market. Could you make some better idea rather than this? I know this post wouldn't been made if the Steem price is $15 but look at the situations of the market
Bang On!!! :)
yes, this post would not have been made at $15
but he just wanted Steem Inc to send a message to the investors I believe, like XRP Locked some tokens.
Do you have any suggestions on how to get it to 15 dollars then I think we all throw you a party and get you to the top of trending ;)
Markets are markets and not everything is bear depending on which aspect and market you wanna look at. Culture and emotions play a large role into this platform with the social aspect and how it plays out on here could be an excellent study in Psychology, Maladaptive Psychology or if you want to break a tinfoil hat out... Psyops. (tongue in cheek :) )
Pretty much everyone on here wants to see Steem /Steemit or aspects of it succeed and if this dialogue helps make the price go up then great.
Have patience for 1 year, Steem will be on top of the world
Totally agree with you @hiroyamagishi ! It just needs a little patience and things will get much better here.
Some people still do not understand that:
creo que no debe sugeri eso amigos
My calculation says it is 26.3~ percent. If ned's stake is included than it is 26.91% of all Steem. I calculated these accounts: misterdelegation, steemit, steem and ned.
To be fair @Ned has been consistently selling his share for months.
Ned says the account he transferred the money to is not his. I wonder whose account it is.
finally someone sees the double standards of going at @teamsteem 's jugular and avoiding a pink elephant in the room. It is both Ned and Teamsteem's stake to do with as they see fit and people bitching about it are probably not going to want to be told how to spend their own money or stake. Thanks for possessing something besides groupthink and being logical.
I don't see this as an attack, just due diligence by the community to improve things.
Why do you cover your hair with that helmet? Surely it is as glorious as your beard.
@fyrstikken, Facebook has sustainable revenue model such as Ads. What is the sustainable revenue model of Steemit inc? If there is no sustainable revenue model for the company, the easy answer is leave with money when they can. I have been searching exhaustively to find the business model (sustainable revenue) , but there were no clear answer. May be I missed it , but not on witepaper, bluepaper, or other existing posts. A person claim that the company make money when people do power up, which can be the sustainable source of revenue (a good thing), but NOT CLEAR. If I were a savvy, shark business man, I would leave with the last cash out at the right time. I have not think through of the aftermath...well.. if this happens, I think this online community will survive after the Steem value in the market hit to zero. In fact, it have already happened once, ay? If you see the statistic, someone cashed out A LOT when the fruit was well ripen.
sorry i have some noobie questions like if i power down all my steem can i not then upvote? also how do i become a witness? thanks a lot =]
es un anal plus
Teamsteem enjoyed a nice delegation for a long period of time, he also managed to amass over 65k steem at some point. He also was a top 20 witness for at least a little while.
Currently, he has around 11k SP. He now holds a #34 witness position on a platform he has powered down 55k or so, and he wants to give advice on how SteemIt Inc should manage their stake?
Edited as my original numbers were incorrect, as pointed out by the OP.
I've never been over 65k. Many factors have influenced me to powerdown some of my Steem, in particular them owning around 40% of the Steem at some point and them powering down at 100% rate of what they own or at least a huge rate. I've also bought back many thousand worths of Stem when Steem was worth 10 cents.
Wait a second, you bought and came up on a lot of coins? What effect does this have on you @teamsteem if they lock 10% ? And I feel you are asking them to lock into something you have to offer, or are affiliated with
Okay, 65k Steem. I stand corrected.
{"type": "challenge_authority", "value": { "challenger": "inertia", "challenged": "teamsteem", "require_owner": true }}It isn't necessarily a bad idea in my opinion but I feel like there are 20 things that Steemit INC needs to do or needed to do for this place to not be so messed up.
There is no reason why STEEM should participate in the bear market like the rest of crypto considering it has a legitimate platform and functioning product. Yet it ends up falling just as hard if not harder than other cryptos which are 95% speculation.
Well there has to be other funding models like advertisements that will be paid to content creators in vested STEEM. So that Steemit INC is always using outside money to purchase STEEM and providing buy support on the exchanges.
In the end Steemit Inc doesn't need to do anything. They are rich and @ned , the founders, and early investors successfully made a lot of money. Now it is a platform that probably 50 or so make decent money on and the rest fight for scraps and chase the carrot.
They get free hosting though for their thoughts. Could it be better? Sure..... But it worked out fine for those who set it up. They got rich. End of story.
4 posts on the trending page at the same time. Impressive....
You'd think someone with your amount of followers and age of account wouldn't need to boost each post onto trending to get responses. Seems like you have an ulterior motive here with these, team power downey junior.
Most of the witnesses don't follow me. Most of the witnesses haven't answered even if the posts were on trending so I would have even less reactions if I hadn't put them on trending.
I still very much want to see Steem succeed. I have all the incentives to.
I'll have to take your word for it I guess, not much else to back that up with.
What do you mean? I can't short Steem. I own some Steem so I have all the incentives to see it go up. I don't know how it could be otherwise. It's not like I could make the price go down either.
You're not that stupid that you can't see how filling trending with your negative and controversial posts wouldn't effect the price.
Requesting features that are much needed are a negative thing?
It seems like I've failed miserably if I tried to influence the price.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem/#markets
Requesting features that have been discussed to death without bringing any new solutions to the table.
People trade currencies for a lot more reasons than to invest in the platform, short term price proves nothing.
Anyone can (be) short steem. It doesn't have to be a formal structure on an exchange. I'm not suggesting anything like that is going on here though.
Yeah you're right. I'm not denying this. I know you're not mentioning this to corner me but I mean, to me the number of Steem that I own is a lot of money...
You're a witness yourself, it's not like there are no existing places where witnesses could discuss things among each other. I don't see many other backup witnesses raising questions and concern and feeling the need for attention as much as you do by buying votes as if there's no tomorrow.
The direction Steem is taking isn't the sole thing of witnesses. I prefer it being discussed in public for the most part and on a decentralized platform.
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They should do whatever they want to
I wouldn't say this is a good idea, they could really hurt Steem if they were allowed to do whatever they wanted.
Ten percent is good amount, 25 % is just a loot!
I guess we need to take this article seriously.
Pretty dumb idea IMO. This is supposed to be a decentralized and free platform. People should do what they want with their stake instead of having rules imposed on them. If people truly care about freedom and decentralization, then they must be willing to take the associated risks instead of treating them like a centralized authority that is obligated to behave a certain way.
I've asked or suggested. Thank you for your kind words.
Fair enough, thank you for sharing.
That's true, in the spirit of libertarianism, people should be able to do what they want. However, when you have so much wealth and power to significantly affect others, you need to watch what you do...
I hope they do this, it would practically guarantee a successful future for STEEM tokens!
Ripple for instance locked up their 55 billion XRP in an escrow account last year, for more or less the same reasons @teamsteem suggests here. I don't know whether that did any good for them, it needs to be analysed. But it doesn't seem like an outrageous idea nor like an "attack on Steemit". It's a suggestion to be discussed ... at least this is how I see it
yes, it does sound like more of a suggestion than an attack.
Yeah.Good idea. We need to release the full Power of Steem on the World
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I don't think forcing Steemit inc to lock their Steem will get us far in this direction but it's a good small step nonetheless.
That's not a bad idea at all... and it could actually help the price of Steem, by taking a very large block of the currency off the table, and giving people exactly knowledge of exactly how much and when blocks would come to market.
I don't claim to know the logistics and technical aspects of it, but seems like it would be worth pursuing.
So kinda like putting in some ultra-hold hair gel? Not a bad idea. The crypto markets are quite turbulent right now. A little stability would be nice.
It's a good article to consider.
24% of all existing Steem ... Thanks for this info.
You probably have a great and it can help to grow the steem revenue. Hopefully the steemit.inc team will take note of what you have stated on the post
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Decentralization right...!?
no me parece que se este atacando a steemit inc, simplemente es el punto de vista de teamsteem, la cual soporta en su post.
nice promoted steemit and up vote my comment thanks
disculpen pero porque sentido o causa deveria bloquear a steem no entiendo muy bien amigo del tema :/
quiero mas una explicacion algo basica y saludos amigo :)
Yes that would be a great idea. Technically I think it is not possible at the moment.
But what can be done is lock it in a multisig account, but then you need to find trusted escrows.
It would be amazing to have time-locks on steem!
good suggestion
They could easily crash the market when cashing out even a small portion of their holdings. Steem's daily volume is low.
not to happy about this post at all
hmmm
You’re venturing into shitpost territory.
Has he crossed the rubicon?
I'm sorry you didn't like that one as much as the other. I'll try to do better next time. I take your opinion seriously.
Im not a coder, but i think, make a feature like this, is easy and quick.
Btw the company can deposit that steem to steemitblog, the official account, and make a power up. Is not 100% solution, but its a clear sign, they want do their things well :)
This year we have Steem inflation, a new 30 million Steem has been produced.
So we should also include this solution that no longer has inflation.
SMT's and account creation should burn a lot of it.
Ok, maybe
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Thanks for the input. In all honesty, I'm not a huge fan of buying votes.
Not a huge fan as well, they ruin content quality for Steem's frontpage. However, it also drives demand for Steem / SBD.
That is an interesting idea. I first found out about smart contracts a couple months ago when I started using @byteball. Still a complete noob though when it comes to blockchain technology. Sometime's its too much to take in.
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I donot agree. They donot need to do this to gain investors' reassurance because there is no doubt prevailing at moment that Steemit Inc may not holds long term plans or their long term plans may be dubious .
Its an intresting prespective for sure.
why people leaving steemit network ??
Some leave, some stay, some come. Steem continues to improve though.
Bear markets have that affect though.
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Hey, I agree with you. Nice post
Helpfull post thanks so much..
it's great
Oops.... What's the matter buddy ???
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I go with @fyrstikken here: from the outside it looks as if you were hurt and trying to balance accounts with Steemit, Inc.
The problem with these multiple open letters is that with every new submission you'll be losing credibility. After the first letter many may have been interested, given your standing within the community. However, after the third attack boosted to trending, it looks as if you were just looking for reasons in order to constantly expose Ned and his team.
As @acidyo perfectly mentioned: a responsible stakeholder wouldn't want the trending page to be paved with these type of messages.
In only 5 days you'll be meeting the people who you are attacking here in person - why don't you wait and go discuss your points in a more professional way then? Ned even opens the conference with a Q&A where we'll have plenty of time to address the questions we want to be answered.
See you in Krákow.
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Not against that but I don't see how it will make much of a difference. I would rather they delegate their Steem Power.
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"I advise Steemit Inc to lock their current undelegated Steem in a smart contract that would allow them to power down only 10% of them every year over the next 10 years."
Oh Man, You just nailed it. I agree.
But your suggestion might be good for the community.
However powerdowning steemitinc's stake is always seen as a negative sign for many people.
But I always give the benefit of the doubt thinking that they only needed money for gas or food, development work, etc.A time-loocked stake can be unlocked so what is the point of locking it while it can be unlocked and then sold @teamsteem?