"will never eliminate corruption and corruption in 100%, you can only make sure that they are at an acceptable level."
Corruption on Blurt is not at an acceptable level. It is so bad that it is ruining the platform for all users except the corrupt insiders. For example, I am one of the top curators AND top creators, and yet I am not growing, nor am I reaching anyone with my message, nor am I making any money.
"mk and ctime put me or fervi on the first position"
I'm happy that happened, but it did not solve the problem. As you have pointed out, witnesses can only witness, they do not have access to the back end of the platform, they don't gain access to the printed stake (which dominates the blockchain), they can't ban or unban users, freeze or unfreeze wallets, etc.
"we could veto any unfavorable changes in the blockchain"
Could we really? All we need is another witness or two that thinks like us, and we can fix things? What can we fix? I've never been a witness so your advice would be valuable.
"setting up own RPC node + image server, own frontend and if it was really hot, what a glue chain separation and how with hive and steem when justin appeared and then it's fun in your own backyard."
Can you explain this a bit more?
"I think the main mistake in your thinking is that you look at this network as a broken item that needs to be fixed otherwise it is useless, and not.. as an ecosystem or a town."
I look at this network as an ecosystem or town that is broken and needs to be fixed.
"if necessary, there will be another "blurt" to which they will move"
Yeah, maybe. It seems that with each move, we get smaller and smaller, leaving behind a majority of people who simply don't care enough to make the change. And the token price just gets smaller and smaller as well. Blurt's top price was 0.11 and we may never get back there. Hive's top was 3.4, and Steem's top was 8.2 USD. In each case, the top came early on, except Hive, which existed since 2020 and had its top in Nov 2021. Will Blurt get back to the tiny price of 0.11 USD? We are down 97% from there at the moment.
I agree Blurt is better in some ways than Steem and Hive, for example, it has a more original name. I know of many Steems and Hives on the internet but I don't know of any other Blurts. We could definitely use a better logo, though... that angry face drives a lot of people away.
well, here you need specific numbers and charts because based on impressions, you can only speculate. There is a problem, but no one has yet clearly estimated how serious it is.
not quite so. Witness has a version of the blockchain network that he can modify in any way through a hard fork that he can perform.
The problem is that in order for such changes to pass, most witnesses must agree to this update and upload it to their installations or it will simply not pass. Basically, the relevant specialists could thus gain full control over the blurt if they were in the majority of the top 20 simply by updating accordingly. This is why, according to the MD team, the blurtbooster was created. In part, the intention to secure the network with a rate controlled by the founders so that they could not be easily thrown out of the top 20 is therefore right because it protects the network from, for example, another Justin Sun who could simply take over the network with a huge amount of money. The problem is that in addition to this advantage, there are also numerous disadvantages that you know, of course.
And image servers storing all images of course.