I also massively oppose requiring delegates to provide their real life identities. It straight up goes against the point of titan, and comes across as heavily suspicious why you're so interested in this information. Btsx is in an extremely grey area legally, no doubt it will be under the gaze of governments before long, and I don't want to be dragged away and thrown into guantanamo Bay for hosting a decentralized banking/exchange system. Anyone demanding real life information should first provide their own real life Id to prove they don't work for an intelligence agency/government.
I believe this is a very valid concern for many people. There are also those who like to keep their privacy from some strangers who may disturb (eg stalking, spamming) their real life in person. On the other hand, the bitshare community needs to know their voted delegates are reliable and do not suddenly 'disappear'. Perhaps one approach is for the delegate candidate to provide information that the community can use to access his/her reputation and/or track records. What do you think?
Something we really need to research is the impact that one delegate can actually have on the network.
It takes 51% of the network hashrate to attack POW, and 51% of the coins to attack POS.
It's my understanding that DPOS is far more secure than both of these systems.
If I had 5 delegates, with 100% reliability and no/few missed blocks, I don't see how I could overpower or corrupt/hurt the network. But if it was possible, what is the impact that a malicious user could have?
Perhaps we should really focus on only voting for delegates who have a really strong candidate campaign, who run services related to btsx (verification of id from site/twitter to here), and vote out those who have nothing to lose if they were to do something bad?
I'm looking into creating 4 delgates, and I don't think having 4/101 delegates is a negative thing. If i'm hosting them around the world on a powerful cloud provider and I have 99-100% reliability then I don't see the problem, especially if i have a very strong campaign and begin to create services for btsx to prove that I am not malicious.