Well, today July the 4th. There were a couple of interesting posts that came to my attention. And I bet you would find these posts very interesting too.
At least...
"From an INDEPENDENCE point of view"
¡A STEEM Payout-iversary!
A @steemitblog post where you can read cheerful quotes like these...
For Americans, July 4th is a celebration of the day they were freed from one tyrannical gatekeeper. But for Steemians, July 4th represents the day we freed ourselves from even more gatekeepers.
For the first time, users were leveraging a decentralized protocol to determine for themselves who deserved to be compensated for their content, something they continue to do to this very day. 3 years later, the Steem blockchain is powering more applications, with more users, earning more cryptocurrency rewards, than any other blockchain in existence.
Agreed! everything good, cute & dandy. Isn't it?
Then, after that previous joyous post. I came to stumble across another article. This time from the no less gleeful optimist @jerrybanfield offering Free Autovotes for everyone.
If you want a 100% upvote from me every day automatically and indefinitely, complete the form at https://jerry.tips/steemvotes and then check your email. Click the "CONFIRM MY SUBSCRIPTION" button and that's it!
Well, as you can see, 'that' only if you are fond to few conditions and you follow just some rules. Yeah, not so many. So click and read his thang.
Ok, yes @por500bolos. We understand. But then, ¿What the heck has to do all the above with the HF21+SPS+EIP and The Independence Day?
Oh!, didn't you catch my swing yet?
«-"Curation/Curators"-»
↖↕↗ ¡That's My Whole SWING! ↖↕↗
🔃🔃🔃
I'm trying to incentivize you to become a REAL CURATOR actually READING something, you know? Something crispy, sassy & with juice.
Something sounding crunchy when you consume it. Something that cracks when you bite. Something that helps you out to think out of the box.
Like for example:
This paper presents an empirical analysis of Steemit, a key representative of the emerging incentivized social media platforms over Blockchains, to understand and evaluate the actual level of decentralization and the practical effects of cryptocurrency-driven reward system in these modern social media platforms.
Similar to Bitcoin, Steemit is operated by a decentralized community, where 21 members are periodically elected to cooperatively operate the platform through the Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus protocol.
Our study performed on 539 million operations performed by 1.12 million Steemit users during the period 2016/03 to 2018/08 reveals that the actual level of decentralization in Steemit is far lower than the ideal level, indicating that the DPoS consensus protocol may not be a desirable approach for establishing a highly decentralized social media platform.
In Steemit, users create contents as posts which get 'curated' based on votes from other users.
The platform periodically issues cryptocurrency as rewards to creators and curators of popular posts. Although such a reward system is originally driven by the desire to incentivize users to contribute to high-quality contents, our analysis of the underlying cryptocurrency transfer network on the blockchain reveals that more than 16% transfers of cryptocurrency in Steemit are sent to curators suspected to be bots and also finds the existence of an underlying supply network for the bots, both suggesting a significant misuse of the current reward system in Steemit.
Our study is designed to provide insights on the current state of this emerging blockchain-based social media platform including the effectiveness of its design and the operation of the consensus protocols and the reward system.
Because in order to CURATE 'content', definitely and unquestionably you'll have to READ. How else someone could deserve get & earn a whoopy 50% out of authors/creators rewards and call themselves curators if they don't' read or won't read a shit of what they c-u-r-a-t-e?
¿How are you gonna justify that outburst & exabrupto after the upcoming approval of the pivoting HF21+SPS+EIP proposal in the next days?
¿Especially in the celebrations of the Freedom & Independence day today?
Yeah! "In God We Trust"
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