Thank you for that. Brilliant and transparent replies and I totally agree on your points about bidbots and the fact we need a universal blacklist.
Now let's see how many replies from the top20 we get!
You need cloning mate!
Sorry, Ned and I have been hiding in our bunker so that we don't have to face the mean internet people and their questions. Can you believe they want transparency? Barbarians I tell you.
Ok, I was reading very seriously until this part. I almost spit my coffee on my laptop :)
@llfarms@berniesanders I always had a feeling you were the same person, but I can't just figure out how the @ned comes in after seeing his livestreams and also seeing LL on the steemfest stream :)
I see stats saying that o only a small percentage of votes come from the boys, but they control a massive amount of the reward pool. We have efforts by groups like @steemflagrewards to deal with those who abuse them, but that's like pissing in the ocean. There's a short-sighted dash for cash going on. The blacklists should help, but it's clear most bots don't use them. Certain accounts that ought to care about their own reputation are selling votes to known and persistent abusers. They should be called out on this, and I've done so.
What are the minimum requirements for a server? So I can start a Witness?
Are there any plans to make witnessing more efficient? I would love to run a little node or smthn on my old Gaming PC.
Because my PC just stands there and is not being used (didnt game for 2 years now) and wants to do some maths..
While I would love to distribute to decentralization, as student I have no money to rent a server..
Besides that, great Interview!
Greets from germany :)
My concern is there are now 100+ bid bots, most of which have zero care of quality and most don't run any form of blacklist. There is almost no incentive to have Steem Power other than delegating to a bid bot for the largest ROI available outside of Self Voting 100% 10 times a day.
Yeah I've noticed that too, there seem to be more bidbots popping up every day it seems. The list on Steembottracker is getting bigger and bigger.
Not only that, but most of them aren't even usable. I mean, who wants to use a bid bot that only has a $0.50 vote or less?
@themarkymark thanks a lot for answering my question I have upvoted and resteemed for you mate. Lol witnesses don't have to blame then selfs for everything wrong on the blockchain. Haha
Thank you for that. Brilliant and transparent replies and I totally agree on your points about bidbots and the fact we need a universal blacklist.
Now let's see how many replies from the top20 we get!
You need cloning mate!
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Did not know you were a @themarkymark alt... and being in between all that illustrious company
especially having met you in person :-)
Hahaha! I had no idea.. and man I am in good company... this might explain a lot though 🤔
Logic also dictates that you are both Ned and Bernie.
Ergo, Bernie also has wonderful hair.
Awwww , really you are too kind. Personally, I love your chicken also Colonel Sanders.
That is a trifecta of amazing hair right there!!... man @nedshair is gonna be so pissed... 💇🏻♂️
More of a triumvirate i think.
Well, @llfarms is our hairdresser so I have no choice but to be fabulous.
where's the hair when you need it @nedshair come out come out wherever you are!!!!!
Sorry, Ned and I have been hiding in our bunker so that we don't have to face the mean internet people and their questions. Can you believe they want transparency? Barbarians I tell you.
Ok, I was reading very seriously until this part. I almost spit my coffee on my laptop :)
@llfarms @berniesanders I always had a feeling you were the same person, but I can't just figure out how the @ned comes in after seeing his livestreams and also seeing LL on the steemfest stream :)
It is all movie magic. Like the moon landing.
😬
I expected most of the answers to this question to be 'no, fuck off', and so a little humour is welcome!
Yes, I almost spit my coffee on the laptop from laughing haha
I see stats saying that o only a small percentage of votes come from the boys, but they control a massive amount of the reward pool. We have efforts by groups like @steemflagrewards to deal with those who abuse them, but that's like pissing in the ocean. There's a short-sighted dash for cash going on. The blacklists should help, but it's clear most bots don't use them. Certain accounts that ought to care about their own reputation are selling votes to known and persistent abusers. They should be called out on this, and I've done so.
What are the minimum requirements for a server? So I can start a Witness?
Are there any plans to make witnessing more efficient? I would love to run a little node or smthn on my old Gaming PC.
Because my PC just stands there and is not being used (didnt game for 2 years now) and wants to do some maths..
While I would love to distribute to decentralization, as student I have no money to rent a server..
Besides that, great Interview!
Greets from germany :)
Ideally, a 64Gb ram server with nvme drives and decent cpu.
But you can get by with 32gb ram and decent ssd disk if you don’t mind longer replay times.
Thanks for your answer.
I guess I still have to wait.. until the requirements are less or I earn money..
greets
The focus is reducing full node requirements but witness node memory creep may be addresssed at some point as well. Hopefully.
Yeah I've noticed that too, there seem to be more bidbots popping up every day it seems. The list on Steembottracker is getting bigger and bigger.
Not only that, but most of them aren't even usable. I mean, who wants to use a bid bot that only has a $0.50 vote or less?
Some have like 5 cent votes and charge 10 cent minimum bid.
LOL, just checked some of them and they're actually used by some people. With heavy losses of course.
Possibly just the owner.
Probably in most cases, other times just newbies I guess.
That one doesn't look like a loss to me.
My mistake, forgot that the bid value was in USD. That's what I get for replying before I've had any coffee...
@themarkymark thanks a lot for answering my question I have upvoted and resteemed for you mate. Lol witnesses don't have to blame then selfs for everything wrong on the blockchain. Haha
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