I know it's not really supposed to be fully decentralised and all but this is pretty ridiculous. I was warming up a lot to BTS recently but seeing this is kind of weird. This is the type of thing that people will always post a link to whenever someone brings up or recommends BTS.
It is supposed to be more decentralized than bitcoin.
101 delegates (who can be voted out at anytime) signing blocks instead of... how many mining pools with a monopoly on hashpower?
Bytemaster is transparent, and really cares about how the community feels. He had this idea, posted it, wanted people's feedback on it. He does this all the time because the community can often times come up with improvements to ideas he has, or explain better why an idea is terrible (like this). The idea was not to guarantee him and his devs a delegate spot, just to make their spots more secure by making them the default votes which could be changed.
Everybody told him that it's a bad idea. He said
"got it. skip that then."And this is an example of why the bitshares community is awesome. Everybody has a voice that will get heard if they want it to be.