Hey thanks for this post, you know it is really coincidental that internally we are debating whether it is a good idea to burn only exchange accounts that never honoured the airdrop to its users or to also burn every account balance that never transacted since genesis. If you can help get community consensus on that it would help. We will do a HF to at least burn the exchange accounts, which accounts for something like 170 Million Blurt.
Regarding UPVU, we already limit support for it on the official blurtwallet.com where users cannot enter in upvu and some others into the delegation field. @blurtbooster also doesn't vote on users that delegate to UPVU, but perhaps we need to advertise that a bit more as a deterrent with a positive spin.
Sadly changing delegations to only allow delegation to smaller accounts won't work, if I was UPVU I would simply create a UI, the user enters in their username, and the app directs the user to vote for a related trail account with smaller BP or creates a fresh account. This will lead to spam transactions, bot trails and more pressure on names being taken from the namespace.
It will also create an oligarchy where only whales can benefit from delegation and users cannot, so there will be whale club UPVU services that benefit only whales.
I think the way forward would be to penalise accounts that delegate to upvu or further reward ones that don't, example accounts that delegate to UPVU won't be eligible for airdrops, I will actually do that for the Gamestate airdrop, maybe there are other incentives and disincentives we can come up with.
Regarding the Blurt logo we tried to campaign the community to look at other options but most people selected the existing logo.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@blurtofficial/community-feedback-fresh-blurt-logo-options
Thanks
simply making delegations automatically expire after one year would be an easy way of mitigating damage
in the same way hive made witness votes automatically expire after one year
100% we are planning to do witness vote expiry, delegation expiry is a good idea thanks!
Wow mega drive and world travel pro have rly turned into witnesses to be proud of now. Talking factually, looking for community consensus before acting. Thanks guys.
Burn the token on exchange accounts that never honored the airdrop is a good idea, this would remove a sword of Damocles from Blurt's head if one of them would decide to dump it (or their clients if they were to add the trading pair so late) and we can easily consider the expiration date passed for this airdrop. As I wrote this morning in a comment on this post I give my consent for mine that I should have had if Bittrex had added the BLURT/BTC pair.
For the delegation, as I wrote too, maybe blocking an account you delegate to upvote you is a potential way.
You mean like a witness delegation blacklist or something?
I mean when receiving a
vote_operationbroadcast add an "ASSERT" if theauthoris in the delegation list of thevoterto refuse the vote but maybe it would be too much consuming time on the treatment of the operation.How many C++ devs are in the Blurt core team?
Can circumvent by sending upvu a memo to vote on another preferred account. We have two adhoc C++ engineers.
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Yes but why?
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holy fuck, what is wrong with you
Pls read: https://blurtlatam.com/@megadrive/ri9xzm
that doesn't address account sovereignty
An account that has never been logged into, is dead... End of story...
and if you take those blurt tokens, all 175 million of them, and you recreate them somewhere else, so they can be USED by someone, then you've just expanded the AVAILABLE number of tokens in circulation by 175 million, which will drive blurt value LOWER
That is true... They must be burned and end of story!
well, in their current state they're basically frozen
but the point of burning the accounts is specifically so those same blurt can be recreated as NEW blurt on the ION blockchain
Hi @megadrive @world-travel-pro In my opinion the unused airdropped Blurt tokens should be forfeited and it should be hard-forked. Then there must be a burn mechanism as well.
The idea of disincentivizing UPVU users by a way of your idea is also good, does this includes Tomoyan's "service"?
I also agree with the re-branding the Blurt logo although it doesn't matter especially if the value of blurt token had picked up considerably.👍
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