I didn't want to hijack delulo's thread but I have to say this. I'm not a crypto person. I'm a equities and commodities trader. I have accumulated millions of Bts over time but have never voted. Part of the reason why is because Bts is not easy for me to understand. It's not my world. I do listen to Beyond Bitcoin and the discussion there is always informative and professional. And I always leave feeling quite inspired. But searching for basic information here on the forum is a pain. And the people here are toxic. I actually never realized that some delegates were receiving 10 million Bts per annum. That's a ton of dilution. As a matter of fact that's more than I have. Is that a simple calculation? Yes. But instead of bitching about it you should be asking yourselves why is it that forum members don't know this basic info and how it can be more readily available and easy to access. My mistake for thinking that this forum was designed to answer questions.
This thread is about voter apathy right? To be honest I'm pretty sick and tired of this place. When the price recovers a bit I'll be selling.
A paid delegate at max pay for a full year is 1.56M BTS.
If you are referring to bunkermining wanting 7 paid delegates, they want this to fun the mining pool bonus and to pay coders for development work to build the mining pool. Only 4 of them are elected currently, and for most of the time it has been 1-2.
I agree that it would be nice if there were better ways to communicate information to new people, but BTS is complicated, and there are a lot of concepts to try and understand.
Regarding 'people here being toxic': Its a bear market, many people are upset. Thats probably the main reason. Also a few people actively attempt to be toxic to try to get the price down, for whatever reason. But there are also plenty of positive people trying to build something and help people.