I wholly agree, but also am in no way interested personally in a 20 year span for incentives like this.
The idea is, that nothing changes for people who don't care for it. You don't have to participate
at all, and bts as you know it will continue w/ the exact same function that you know and love. This is simply a referral mechanism.
It really is about as far away from the original philosophy that built DPoS
how? it doesn't change anything about DPoS. Saying it "is as far away from the original philosophy" is quite theatrical.
and there is no reason I can see why we shouldn't have a little more patience with the organic growth taking place right now.
Wait for what? This is about as grassroots/organic as you can get. To me, saying that, is the equivalent of saying don't build a bitshares website because we want to wait for some grassroots, or don't tell your neighbors about bitshares because we're waiting on grassroots, don't do meetups or advertise yet... just wait for the grassroots.
feel like maybe a delegate instead of the contract would be something that helps incentivize something less than 20 years on your end and will make more of the people who shared the vision of DPOS a bit happier.
Again I don't think this changes anything remotely core w/ DPoS.
I don't think the delegate is necessary.
The 20 years can be debated, throw some numbers around, see what happens. Someone mentioned perhaps a $1 per year up to $20 for 20 years, I thought that was interesting.
I mean is it true you will receive nothing if bitshares' marketcap is t at least 160 mil in the next 14-16 months?
... why not 250 mil, or 500 mil, or 2 mil, 10 mil, ... RndNum()
In my opinion we should all be working off the same incentive structure or it is going to unnecessarily divide the efforts of people already working on the project.
I don't think this divides anyone working on the project over incentives. Nobody would be forced to use it. Everyone could use it if they so desired. How is that dividing.
We all have access to the same platform, we are all able to do anything any other user is able to. The incentives are the same for everyone. (with the exception of someone who simply does not have access to that kind of start-up capital [$20] ) This is like saying adding a mail client in bitshares unnecessarily divides the community because we should all use the memo field and wall burn to keep us all on the same page.
I'm strongly interested in bitshares remaining based in the philosophy of grass roots while we get merchants to sign on and feel that sadly this contract was constructed without the knowledge or input of the community.
This is as grass roots as it gets. Nothing will happen if nobody decides to use it.
No reason to stop getting merchants to sign on, keep doing that.
"constructed without the knowledge or input of the community" -- This is nothing official, its just an idea. We are here now talking about it in the "community"... Welcome.