This is kinda danger game, I don't like this idea at all, it will cause a lot of conflicts and discussions
Here's my alternative sollution:
Return all curations rewards from delegated power to Blurt Power owners
Scammers will give up, they won't be able to cheat and profit on it anymore. Blurt Power holders will be happy to delegate their power to honest curators. Curators still will be able to profit by publishing reports. Investors will be happy too, they will know that the game is FAIR
How do we return the delegation without the user keys and without hardfork?
Hardfork is needed.
That's not possible right now, our lead time for hardforks is at least 3 months.
I understand. It is time to talk with devs and community. It is time to ask them if it's possible to do and how difficult it would be.
Ps. Right now, I would suggest to do nothing with upvu account, just let it run as it is. I remember the POB drama, when they blocked azircon account. The price of POB token went down from 2 HIVE to 0.2 HIVE
I'm in touch with the devs and there are still many gitlab issues unfinished before we can add more to the list. We wouldn't block the account, just new delegations to it via the UI, they are welcome to spin up a new ui and get their users to use it, or have users use the cli wallet to delegate.
maybe simple warning about upcoming changes on delegation pop up or main wallet page would be enough?
The thought of this concerns me too. It appears that a lot of the Korean "investors" have bought Blurt in order to use UpVu. That's going to be a lot of Blurt for you to prop the price up.
Why hardfork?
VgA
Because this proposed change can be done no other way than hardfork.
I have another solution as well, for unfinalised airdrop attestations we can exclude accounts from receiving tokens which delegate to such harmful accounts. I can do this with the STATE token airdrop and put it front page for awareness.
Blocking the ability to delegate is the same as returning delegation, and is something we have the power to do right now, we don't have the ability to cancel/return delegation.
Maybe I am just tired but in the first paragraph you say "return all curations from delegated power to Blurt Power owners". Then you go on to say "Blurt Power holders will be happy to delegate their power to honest curators".
Why would someone delegate to honest curators if their curations from the delegation are returned? I cannot wrap my tired brain around this.