@Riverhead: nice to see you here posting. You actually have two posts here on this thread, which is exactly 50% of all your posts on Bitcointalk in last 3 years!
. You don't seem to be very talkative (at least here on BCT), so such number of posts here show your genuine interest in this project
As a valued member of Steem and Bitshares community, I think you would be very welcome here too, but could you please explain those "james/morden/moonscape/nexus-dev/riverhead" multiaccount games resulting in pushing everyone else out of witness list? This is not a behaviour one would expect from a friendly and helpful community member...
Thanks for the welcome
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There's nothing wrong with running multiple witnesses in DPOS and in fact it happens on all of them including Bitshares 1&2, Steem, Muse, and Moonstone-dac. Graphene is a completely transparent chain so it's trivial to follow proxy chains and created by records to figure out who is who. Naturally there are ways to create truly anonymous accounts but deception was never my intent. The dev said there would be 500 slots so I figured no harm no foul. Turns out there was only 11.
Here is a breakdown of the accounts:
James/Riverhead - Mine.
Morden - My curator on Steem that wanted to try his hand at being a witness since he has no chance of getting in on Steem, Muse, or Bitshares. New project new opportunities for new people
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Moonscape - Account created for Roadscape - a frontend dev for Steemit and creator of steemd.com. I haven't spoken with him yet so he has not been voted on. I could have left it as a non witness account but honestly I wasn't expecting this level of scrutiny this early on lol.
nexus-dev - Created for Nikolai (toast) who has joined our Slack and was a core dev for Bitshares and currently runs Nexus Development which is the core dev team on Makerdao - an Ethereum based stable coin project.
Moonstone-dac is a cool project with a lot of potential addressing one of the primary complaints of Bitshares 2.0: inflation. Inviting some experienced people in the space can only help this project reach the potential we're all hoping for. Bonus if he gets the EVM ported
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Many thanks for explanation! I actually assumed there was no malucious intent, but just a playing around
Regarding the scrutiny - probably Steem early days made me so suspicious
- I was one of the first miners of Steem and there was some not-really-fair play at the beginning from several parties... For Steem the early mining and distribution was crucial due to crazy inflation rate, so I automatically assumed here it also could be the case. But in fact it lookjs like early mining here should not affect things too much.
And of course, you are right, having/attracting experienced people here will help a lot.
I have actually two questions to you if you dont mind:
1. How it happened that you have so little posts on BCT, while being very active everywhere else?
2. How you managed to become an active witness right now (no.17), even without the vote from the Dev?
This is just my curiousity, sure you don't have to answer
. I am just getting some info on potentially one of the main players here
