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There are people who are passionate enough about BitShares to vote and do work to establish a reputation that others trust to vote for them.

What do we gain if we water down that trusted group with others who are merely paid to think for us?  How do we know that a paid voter is wise and actually doing her homework?

The average knowledge/passion/trustworthiness per vote would decrease.  Why would that be good?

Anything done to artificially increase the number of votes cast without increasing the knowledge behind those votes is just for show.  Which means that the %voting metric is a poor indicator.

Suppose we offered $100 per share to get people to vote just one time.  Naturally, turnout reaches 99%.  What have we done?  We have now locked in a bunch of random noise that averages out to the same thing plus a bias based on the sum of all disinformation, rumors and misconceptions.  Now, when conditions change, the resulting inertia of unattended one-time paid votes is much harder for the truly informed and motivated voters to make a change.

I'm talking about paying proxies. Let them figure out how to  mobilize voters.

Does anyone agree bitshares would benefit from some public face driving entrepreneurs and devs to the platform? Or are there better avenues?

Unless it's Nick Szabo or Andreas Antonopulos don't bother. 

Even Erik Voorhees and Roger effing Ver have been called traitors for even daring to acknowledge the validity of altcoins.

Quote from: Bhuz on December 05, 2015, 08:44:02 pm

I don't really think that running the very backbone of bitshares in a t2micro is a good practice at all, even if it seems to run "fine".

Witnesses should always be ready and able to deal with sudden increases in resources required by the network, and this is not possible with a t2micro.
What happens if a spam attack strike on bts? That low-end server will not be able to bear the attack.
What if all the witnesses run on a t2micro? Bitshares network dies.

And you can not even assume a priori that you will be always ready to manage your instance in time to mitigate an attack.
What if you are outside and can not connect to your servers or server's hosting? What if you are just sleeping?

Witnesses should always look at what could be the next required resources and their servers should always be capable of sustain a lot more requests that the current ones.

When spam attack happens, witnesses can easily scale up their witness servers. In my case, I regularly update my snapshot image, so I can upgrade my server to the highest one (e.g. 32 core, 208 G ram, 10 TB SSD) in a couple of hours.

Exactly, that's the whole point of cloud computing: automatically scale resources based on demand. And currently we're mostly signing empty blocks, there's really no point overprovisioning. It's just bad cost management. Especially if we have to dump witness pay on the market to pay for it.

triox sent 1000 BTS without a memo, but I just assume it's for this funding

thank you!

Weird, I can see the memo on my end:
TRANSFER   
From   triox
To   fav
Amount   1,000 BTS
Memo   TDC

I am looking for a list of laws that have the following characteristics:

1. Completely Unjust  (Victimless Crimes)
2. Probability of Getting Caught Violating the law is Low
3. Cost of getting caught is high
4. The penalty for getting caught is mostly financial
5. Have public sympathy for the individual prosecuted

Jury duty?

Now that I'm voted out I can share a secret 

Graphene has been so rock-solid that I was able to scale back my infrastructure to running a single t2.micro (plus a physical machine at home and another t2 ready to spin up in seconds).
Even on this low-end setup CPU utilization is close to zero, RAM is safely at around 60% and no latency issues.
During the two-months I've only had 33 missed blocks, all before the vesting-pay-bug fix. I now only scale up the machines during build.

Now, some witnesses are maintaining several four-core, 8GB machines, and you might think that it's somehow more secure, stable or scalable but the thing is, they have to dump their earned BTS to pay the bill. Meanwhile, I've never sold any BTS and am still able to easily scale up if/when blockchain usage picks up.

Graphene has exceeded expectations in terms of stability and footprint so much, that we ended up overpaying the witnesses. We can easily have twice as many witnesses or slash witness pay by half. And if the Blockchain starts demanding more resources we can always reevaluate.

If it's a UIA sharedropping on some other UIA or some part of the community (like the "top BTS holders"), then it should be full price.
If it's a sharedrop on the whole community (all BTS holders) then it should be much cheaper (just a spam prevention).