RE: Are You Ignorant About EOS, STEEM, and DPOS? by bitcoinflood

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· @bitcoinflood ·
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All very good points but... This is what I think and it very well could be totally wrong. Just some food for thought

Like bitcoin has many large miners which can control and determine what direction bitcoin goes. Is DPOS the same? Since only a few people running the servers have vote weight. So now 100 people are deciding what 5 million people can do and how they can do it?

BTW I do appreciate all the work and commitment and good you are doing for steem. Thank you
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@lukestokes ·
Thanks for the encouragement. 

I think the hugely important difference between bitcoin miner cartels and DPOS is that token holders, in a single moment, can actually change their votes on who gets to be a BP. That can't happen with POW. Token holders have _no say at all_ how things go. The motivational incentives are not inline. DPOS aligns those in a better way because it's the token holders that hold all the value for the chain. The "if you don't like it, sell your tokens" is  good approach because bitcoin lost a ton of marketshare from people who still love bitcoin but didn't have a way to express their views on how it should work.

I don't think 100 people deciding is an accurate way to describe it. 21 BPs are (ideally) just securing the chain. If they are called to do something extraordinary by the community, then it's the token holders who are deciding by agreeing or disagreeing with the approach the BPs take.
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