Price feeds can no longer be published after a black swan.

Currently, there is no way to revive an MPA after a black swan event. Therefore, like someone mentioned on mumble today, this requires a hardfork.

Basically, what needs to be done is to pay out all holders from the settlement_fund. There is currently no mechanism to enforce this. Holders must settle individually. I believe forcing settlement of all holders wasn't implemented because it's computationally expensive (has to walk the list of all account balances).

Once all holdings have been settled and the settlement_fund has been emptied, the settlement_price has to be removed. I think it would be safe to do this at that point. This is something that has to be implemented, however.

Please correct me if I am wrong but you can only change these features once right? So if we surrender these features today we cannot turn them back again, right? So if we change them we can not adjust to any future market conditions where we might use these features.

That would be almost like the block size debate in Bitcoin. I would prefer a more flexible system.

I think you have missed the point that CryptoPrometheus was trying to make.

Voting decay means the overall level of votes will go down, due to voter apathy. That means a large BTS holder can vote in not only one witness for himself, but as many as he likes, taking over control of the blockchain.

Note that with 27 active witnesses, buying out 51% of them witnesses will cost at least 14 times as much as buying out one, whereas you currently need less than twice as many BTS to vote 14 in than you need to vote one in.

• Should we increase the quantity of BTS witnesses?
• Should we introduce witness vote degradation?

• Campaigning for these witnesses positions has become almost non existent at this point (no witnesses in beyondbitcoin hangouts asking for votes for example)
• The witness sub-forum (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/board,61.0.html) has become a ghost town (witness channel on steemit isn't populated with BTS witness posts).
• Witnesses once voted in, unless their node degrades, are unlikely to be replaced by another prospective BTS witness. If we had voting degradation where after 'x' months your placed vote on a witness begins degrading over a period of 'y' months, we would see witnesses who actively campaign potentially becoming witnesses, replacing inactive BTS witnesses.
• Getting current witnesses to implement price feeds for new MPAs is quite difficult, I have been actively campaigning for witnesses to publish price feeds for the 'GRIDCOIN' MPA (https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,22733.0.html). After 2.5 months and 3 BeyondBitcoin hangout appearances only 2 witnesses have published price feeds for the GRIDCOIN MPA. New witnesses may be more likely to interact with the BTS community.
• By introducing voting degradation, we may increase regular participation in the voting system rather than a 'vote once and forget' mindset right now.

• $625k 24hr trading volume! Usually GRC has a trading volume of a few thousand per day, this is a significant increase in daily trading!
• Poloniex appears to be the primary exchange where trading is occuring, however users are buying cheap coins off the less used exchanges (Bittrex/C-Cex).
• Only a couple days ago GRC had a market cap of approx $2 million, now it's sitting around $5 million. Cryptocurrencies are crazy volatile!

• Oct-Nov 2015: When we first advertised Gridcoin on Boincstats - we were recruiting 30-50+ users per day to team Gridcoin through a single month long advertising campaign.
• Approx 21st Mar 2016: When a Gridcoin reached the front page of reddit due to a /r/futurology post - it was quickly hidden from public view though by disgruntled /r/futurology mods.