Hi this post is an AMA. I am going to be tweeting this post. I really mean 100% that you can literally ask me anything. A lot of my Twitter following is from the cosmos ecosystem. If you are unsure how to make a blurt account, please know that there is a community member running the sign up system and you can easily do so using PayPal. This is a rate limiting mechanism that protects the blockchain, and provides this community member with some funding to continue to run the sign up system.
This system does not compromise the cryptographic integrity of your keys.
Do you really know what double u had done ?
If you really know will you still support him ?
Double u has told more lies than megadrive did, and you were part of those conversations. Would you care to give your say on that.
It was him all the time who first insulted users, asked them to leave and we're attacking anyone who supported foundation.
He was the one affecting chain, and then again no with another set of lies
I don't have any issues with double u staying as a witness and voted by community even ctime alone
But will you clear your stand on those Lies as a founding member and let community know who actually had told lies.
As megadrive have stayed while you gone, his credibility is in question, and If you don't support him now price will anyways drop, but also more people will go away from blurt.
Thanks
Hello there sir, and just so you know I'm not making value judgments between various statements because hey free speech maximalist please do not look at this as me taking a side against the wonderful mega drive or the wonderful double u.
Instead, please look at this as me saying hey we best get this thing right going fast quick and kicking
Well it does not seem like this sir..
Things were fueled up after your statements
Double u is now more confident than before
It's not about double u or mega it's about the community
If any one can threaten the community, then do keep telling lies and yet stay in power . It does not assure a healthy community.
Freedom is one things and abusing one. There is a lot of power abuse.
You need to understand that this platform does not have a clear leader. In fact, you are one of the 20 clearly elected leaders. Your power and influence over blurt is equivalent to MD.
Thank you so much for all of your work to build on blurt, and I am looking forward to seeing what you put together next. Please keep in mind that the front end interfaces that you create are yours and yours alone and you can do whatever you'd like to with them.
Thanks for your statement. I will try to keep doing things like I am now.
I am on the same thing, I will instead limit people on the frontends, and even find more ways to tackle this. Thanks for trusting me .
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If Blurt is completely Decentralized and runs in a True State of Anarchy do we even need any humans ? Can everything be run by robots ? What does it cost per month to run Blurt ? Image servers, any other costs etc etc ? Is it all Free ?
We need humans.
No, we shouldn't try to make a social platform built for humans, run by robots.
I think that it would be unwise to measure the expense of running blurt in dollars. I think that is relatively low, maybe $100 to $200 per month.
The thing is, running blurt is in fact very expensive. Blurt is expensive because it demands the time of highly qualified people to operate and maintain it. In the case of blurt, 100% of those people are 100% compensated in blurt itself. Furthermore, 100% of those people are 100% compensated in staked blurt. On a few occasions that I can recall, we have paid software engineers and other currencies, but in at least a couple of those occasions, I do recall feeling a distinct lack of alignment. I find that it is much better to find people who are enthusiastic about blurt and then teach them how to build on it, rather than finding people who are already programmers, whether good or bad, and then paying them to work on it. Desire is a key factor here.
While this is a strength, it is also arguably a weakness, but it probably has to be this way for reasons of publicity and internationality (people may not be able to pay themselves in their local currency or may have to pay expensive fees). Witnesses are not immune from getting depressed when the course falls and not doing maintenance and upkeep on the system if they don't feel like it. And then enthusiastically getting back to work when things are looking up and the course is "going to the moon".
From a classically traditional point of view, it would be wise to be able to pay coders and developers more reliably, i.e. not to have to use the coin itself. But then the question would arise how else to pay them.
As a rule, good programmers and developers can pick the cream jobs and have no need at all to work on speculative objects and get involved with an uncertain currency. Unless they are not particularly outstanding, maybe not even mediocre at what they do (or are youngsters, still in their training phase). Exceptions prove the rule.
If you go to pure tech forums and see how much zest, interest and expertise is exchanged there, the whole thing here seems more like a soap opera. Though I think soap operas are liked and watched by the majority of people. Mediocrity is what sells best, even if everyone denies that. Genius sells badly if no one understands it.
To the third point, the enthusiasm you speak of last. If you're enthusiastic, you basically don't care what others say, whether they think what you're doing is stupid. The enthusiastic person ignores that. Since it is probably not possible to maintain the same level of enthusiasm all the time, a system thrives on exchange. Old people leave, new ones come. Some take a break and come back. Others leave and are never seen again. And so on. The enthusiastic need the frustrated and vice versa.
Now this is something people perceive and enjoy as drama when the enthusiast turns into a disappointed person. For a very strange reason people like to blame others for their declining enthusiasm. But even this is understandable when one is left temporarily from humor and good spirits.
We never raised a dollar for blurt. We never will.
How would you rate the quality of Blurt compared to other crypto-based platforms with a blog function? On a scale of 1-10 (1 = very poor, 10 very good)?
I think that leaves us just rating the forks of steem against each other and in that case my opinion is that blurt is the finest one of them. The reason for that is the transaction fees. In fact in other ways the platforms are very similar to each other. I think that the transaction fees are what are likely to ensure that blurt remains sustainable over time.
Please understand that I have not been chasing features, the only feature that we have added to blurt really is the transaction fees, otherwise we just tweaked some of the protocol distribution settings to deal with how people earn coins. Frankly, I still think that both steem and Hive are very good and that they both should be concerned that it doesn't cost anything to store stuff forever on their blockchains.
I think what is neglected on all Chains is user-friendliness, ergonomics and the browsing experience. More so on one and less so on the other.
What is abundant on one platform does not exist or is not visible on the other, for example so-called communities (which I prefer to call thematic interest groups). I don't see them on blurt. Do they exist?
Someone who knows the ropes once said to me that every system has to be oriented towards the absolute stupidest, so that the user-friendliness can be improved. Professionals and technicians often make the mistake of not taking seriously that non-technicians have a completely different view of the digital environment than they do.
What do you mean by fees? The fact that every vote costs me something and every publication on my blog?
Could I still run a Blurt witness on a Rasberry Pi ?
Yes I think so
Do you think individuals have the right to attempt to order the founder’s fund to be sent to the dao?
What’s your stance on the property rights of this fund?
Well in fact they do have the right to attempt to order anything that they would like to. That's free speech maximalism for you. Does not mean that it will happen but they can advocate for that if they would like to.
like every account on blurt except the accounts that have never been used, the property rights of the so-called founders fund or the so-called foundation or whatever the heck that thing is, must remain intact.
I suppose that the final point here is that we don't actually have a governance mechanism that can make those changes in a legitimate way. The real way to make those changes is to create a fork of blurt, or to do what blurt did to start, which is a snapshot and then an airdrop.
Otherwise, the only way to make those changes is to create a software upgrade that all of the witnesses run at a certain block height. I think we do not need 100% consensus. it might be 2/3 if I'm not mistaken.
I find your attitude most refreshing.
What changes are those?
Can you explain to me as a non-tech what is meant by snapshot and airdrop?
Megadrive was concerned about the chain being forced somehow to empty the foundation fund.
I think this concern was totally invalid.
In cosmos, it is possible (example Juno) to use governance to affect individual accounts. That's not possible on blurt.
Thank you.
You mean there was fear that someone could influence the witnesses to write code which would allow them to freeze someones account?
I think it's imaginable and therefor it's probably possible. But that would require a lot of criminal energy. And people hate being criminals from my point of view.
It is totally totally possible to either nuke or freeze accounts and to move funds arbitrarily between accounts. The key protection against this is the witnesses themselves. That's why it's really important that you choose good witnesses because those witnesses protect you against more or less endless and myriad threats.
That was to be expected, that the money is the most important thing to you! You must have enough already!
Dissolving Blurt Core and it’s funds means dissolving the team, dissolving the infra and taking Blurt into the dark ages.
Maybe. This is totally one possible outcome.
Thanks for your stewardship of blurt man.
He is allowed to ask anything and well I don't know I think it's a perfectly valid question if those kinds of conversations are occurring.
I just beat him to it this time!
He first apologized for a few lies. For the remaining dozens not!
With those funds gone the foundation can’t operate, protect the chain or retain developers. We have a cohesive team and developers do not want to be at the mercy of ctime’s control of the proposal fund and beg him for pay.
After I debunk your lie that you used to justify my exclusion from the Witness channel, will you stop blocking?
We should probably put him back into the witness channel because I would like for his influence on alert to be proportional to his steak, meaning that his influences likely to be large. That's okay with me.
The flip side of this is that @double-u can run a witness without access to that channel, or make his own channel and that's cool with me too.
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Please read this comment 6 days ago https://blurt.blog/blurt/@mariuszkarowski/rdl72a note it was prior to any official foundation post and prior to my personal post that riled up this group.
Also read this recent comment:
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@ctime/rdwwg7
Coupled with the recent major flex in shuffling witness votes.
Do you think it very much looks like an attempt to disarm the blurt chain to sieze power?
I don't really think that's possible.
They could, but I believe that it would be too expensive. In addition to that, I do not wish to control this blockchain, so if users who are following consensus rules gain an outsized influence over the chain that is okay with me.
Since blurt is basically an information warfare weapon, it's pretty hard to disarm.
In this case they are using social engineering and threatening legal action to return the funds by force. If they were to get enough funds to modify the founders stake via consensus would that not be a violation of property rights and as bad or worse than the freeze they are so worried about?
It would be best, of course, to mock empty legal threats.
The funds can't be "returned" -- they were put there in blurts Genesis.
If they got enough stake, they could possibly modify balances, or even without much stake, they could make a fork.
But in either case, those resulting things would not be blurt. Blurt has "the no's".
It is so nice to see one of the people leading this ship actually have transparent conversations in public on the actual blog... Thankyou Jacob. This is actually quite ground breaking and exemplary.
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@Double-U
You get a chance to mend your differences and start new but all you do is mock @MegaDrive in your comments here.
If you are serious about Blurt then up your game and act like you care.
If not just stay silent and wait for your pension fund to give you some good returns in the years to come.
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Will there be a Blurt blog running on the Cosmos Blockchain soon ?
This is the perfect time. I am Ready for Blurt-Cosmos
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