RE: Proposing Hardfork 0.20.0 “Velocity”
Interesting thoughts!
Re: mining - I definitely agree that scrypt is going to be a bad choice. I'd prefer something more CPU focused like (properly implementing) equihash or perhaps cryptonight. The idea is to give an accessible blockchain way to do anonsteem, basically. It shouldn't be easy.
The main reason I support having a small amount of bandwidth that can never leave is the following: if you have 0 SP (because you powered down), you can't even transact to power up. You can't rejoin the community without help or a new account. I don't think an account should be able to freely use the platform without any SP, but I think not being able to power up steem is a bug. They shouldn't necessarily be able to transact much at all, but I'd like them the ability to power up to use the platform.
Burning steem in addition to holding steem to use the platform, makes new accounts more valuable, which I think is useful to prevent account abuse. I think the burning should be in addition to powering up for bandwidth.
I don't think it will be accessible for most people. Like I said, mining has become so specialized work that most people don't know how to do that. If it's used by a few people to maintain AnonSteem-like services, it's quite unnecessary, because we already have AnonSteem.
I'd love to see a way for non-tech people to get accounts easier. For example, whistleblowers and journalists might want to have an anonymous account. Most of them don't have skills to set up mining operation, or time to learn the skills.
I suggested in my post that we should have Steem Account Tokens (SAT). One SAT gives a right to create one account, and it's backed by steem so that the new account gets enough SP to be useful. SAT could be earned as rewards like SBD.
If we had SAT in the platform, it could be used very easily to crowdsource the account creation effort. I can imagine that most of the active users would earn or buy SATs so that they have at least a few of them, so they can be always ready to give a new account to somebody. Technically a SAT works like a code that can be used once to create a free account. That code can be given out in blogs, other social media platforms, email, etc. to people who need it.
That would be quite easy way to get anonymous accounts. If there are lots of people giving out free accounts, it shouldn't be too hard to find a code from a forum or ask for it in an email.
Is this really a problem? There is already an easy solution: just use Blocktrades to buy and transfer SP to the account.
Even if this is a real problem, the ability to make transactions without SP should only apply to steem/SP transactions. You could use the account as a cryptocurrency wallet but not use the blogging/social media features.
Yes... but couldn't SAT's be used to track account creators and depending on whatever metadata might be left behind during the account creation process via a fake or badly setup anon create account system, be potentially used to associate a supposed anon account back to a real identity? Wouldn't direct POW mining, (CPU heavy and not GPU friendly), be more conducive to creating true anon accounts that can't be metadata traced back to a real person?