There's no point in voting over the next four days. Fun stuff. I just upvoted @utopian-io for 12% just to test it out and I lost 80% of my voting power, lol. Yesterday, @utopian-io was at 20% voting power but now they are back up to 100%, weird.
HF20 is a total shit show, but they changed a lot of things that I'm going to be happy with in the long run.
I found out yesterday during my HF20 rage blackout that accounts will now be able to post comments every block (3 sec) instead of once every 20 seconds. This is a huge deal for me because it will make the dapps I want to create directly on the blockchain much more responsive. However, none of that matters if the resource credits required to post comments are too expensive.
At the same time, the whole RC mana system is likely going to be pretty awesome. After all, Steem Bandwidth is an Extremely Undervalued Resource (Wow 3 months ago I had 1035 SP and now I have 2700.) Hopefully users are provided with more resources as we acclimate to this new system and begin to scale up.
Voting and resource credits are supposed to stabilize over the next 4 days. How on Earth did no one see this coming. It's like we don't even run a testnet. Good thing Steem has no competition or we would have lost thousands of users over this... so unacceptable and unprofessional. It feels like we've experienced more downtime in the last week than most blockchains will experience in their entire life-span. At the same time we are doing a lot more than other blockchains are accomplishing. Double-edged sword I guess.
I was just told to stop looking at the traditional vote and bandwidth bar. It's all about RC Manabar and Voting Manabar now. I think it's interesting that they use the word Mana. It's like we're all blockchain wizards now. As someone who wants to make a blockchain RPG I approve.
You really have to wonder if these Resource Credits are a form of artificial scarcity. I already want even more Steem power after running these tests.
Seriously though, 13 billion RC to make one small comment? 11 billion more to make a small edit? The plankton are going to get wrecked. Luckily it looks like I create 5 trillion RC every 5 days.
I wonder how much it takes to make an account. That's supposed to be the most expensive operation. I'm sure we'll receive a lot more details about how this all works as the days roll by.
I practically begged for Steem to separate vests from bandwidth, multiple times. Be careful what you wish for I guess. Still, I have high hopes for this new system. The old one seemed completely unsustainable and impossible to scale.