RC Pools Coming Soon™
https://steemit.com/witness-category/@holger80/code-review-of-changes-since-0-20-5-resource-pool-delegations-were-added
https://steemit.com/hf20/@edicted/hf20-pay-to-play-and-rc-pools
RC delegation pool objects and operation were added.
New class rc_delegation_pool_object
Represents a delegation pool.
New class rc_indel_edge_object
Represents a delegation from a user to a pool.
New operation delegate_to_pool_operation was added
This operation can be used to delegate RC from an account to a pool.
Arguably Delegation Pools should have been a part of HF20. Better late than never. This tech will not only make it possible to delegate resource credits separately from upvote power but allow those credits to be shared by a pool so none of the credits sit around getting wasted on a large scale. Instead of having to single handedly delegate users RCs on an account to account basis, we can simply add them to a pool we control.
I only have around 3000 SP, but if you assume the average person only uses 30 SP on average that means I can personally allow 100 users to interact with the blockchain as much as they want. This is a great thing because it implies that the Steem blockchain is delegating responsible resource spending to everyone with stake. Suddenly, I become the one responsible for making sure users aren't abusing the pools that I control.
Anyone can control, anyone can delegate.
Anyone can create a pool and anyone can delegate to that pool. This will create a lot of interesting situations. Maybe I start paying someone a dollar a week to delegate to my pool so I can start claiming 'free' accounts. Maybe I create a pool that users are only allowed to draw from if they are using an app I made. I am quite certain this feature will be hard-coded in the future.
Perhaps there will also be other useful options we can set on pools. For instance, do you want users to only draw from your pool if their own RCs are depleted? Or do you want RCs to be drawn from your pool immediately? (Leaving a personal buffer for each person in it.)
Conclusion
All the outrage from HF20 is about to fade away into obscurity. RC pools will allow anyone to operate on the blockchain as much as they want for quite some time. We are going to have to onboard millions upon millions of users before this becomes an issue again.
This is what most peoples complaint was, regarding rc's, and regardless of what anyone says, it should have been in the hf20 from the start, and the witnesses should have insisted on it. (assuming they even bothered to look at the code)
Professional video game production companies do this all the time. All developers do it.
Before the Internet got big you had to be damn sure that your product worked and had no glaring bugs. Now you can release any garbage with the intent of patching it later and distributing that patch through a peer sharing network (i.e. you don't even have to pay for the bandwidth cost lol)
While I have to agree with this sentiment I also know that I can't hold Steemit Inc to a higher standard than a multi-billion dollar company.
I have to state here though stinc may have the keys to the code, though we, all of us are the stakeholders, and the witnesses are (supposed to be) the guardians or gate keepers, as much as I want to blame stinc inc they can only carry a part of the blame, the rest must be shared by those that failed to test it or read it (how many times?)..............
People are impatient and short-sighted on average. They look at the immediate losses without consideration for the potential future gains.
It will be interesting to see how all the new changes come into action and use. This feature should actually encourage people signing up via dapps. Another interesting move away from the Steemit application.
Heard @therealwolf floating this idea a while back. Sounds like another good scam for vote bot merchants to me.
It is a good scam for vote bot owners. It's also a good scam for scaling the platform.
As someone with 600 SP you won't have to worry about it. In fact, you'll have extra RCs leftover that you can sell with the rest of them. Or, you can undercut the system and give them all away just like many other people will do.
Yeah, already delegating to noobs with my SPs which are over 500 SPs. My feeling was that a better way to go would be to distringuish between carbon based upvotes and robotic ones. This was covered in an old blog post of mine whose link is included below for your reading pleasure.
https://steemit.com/steem/@novacadian/a-decentralized-capcha-annonymous-proof-of-brain-verification
I wasn't going to read that but now I have to because I see that it's about decentralized CAPTCHAs as a proof-of-brain mechanism... and this is exactly what I plan on doing in one of my blockchain-games.
Great minds think alike eh? Not going to be surprised if this turns out to be the way going forward. Nothing is stopping this concept from being introduced into the RC system.
How do you stop a user from abusing your RC pool? Again, the solution is these CAPTCHAs.
Wow, that is exciting news, @edicted! Will be watching your progress with even greater interest!
This is my solution:
Puzzle Games As CAPTCHAs
Sweet! 😎
These pools are going to be highly beneficial. I don't think there is anyone out there with several hundred SP that wouldn't delegate to these to help others out even a little bit. I'm going to be able to start my delegation soon, it's only fair to those who are starting out get attention from others.
I think this is how the Apps are going to do it so they can compete on different access rights. plus, some are going to need more than others by the design of their system. Some might need many comments etc.
Also forgot to mention that pools will fix the issue of alternate accounts being able to post on the blockchain as much as the owner of the main account wishes.
This is a nice perk for developers like me.
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