Quote from: fran2k on January 05, 2015, 11:27:10 PM

Quote from: matt608 on December 31, 2014, 08:00:44 PM

Quote from: DecentralizeEconomics on December 31, 2014, 06:43:33 PM

Bitshares has already had a Sybil attack occur earlier this year when it was uncovered that an individual named "sfinder" actually controlled the TOP 5 DELEGATES!

The truth of this matter is, that as everyone knows who was around in 2013, Bitshares was originally going to be PoW. The Bitshares' devs only decided to switch to PoS after they saw the success of NXT. In a flawed attempt to look original, they added "delegates" to PoS which effectively destroyed it by adding centralization and opening it up to the aforementioned Sybil attacks.

Sfinder was found and voted out successfully.

It is almost impossible for full pay delegates to be the same person. Unless they are superhuman and able to complete multiple jobs at the same time. You can view the work delegates are doing. They have to be transparent and productive or they are voted out. It's simply not possible to all be the same person because 1 person cannot do 101 jobs. And there are huge incentives to not do this.

Delegates are one of the great features of BitShares. It's creating a thriving community and a whole new type of decentralised organisation. Not to mention the unique identity verifying features being developed. DPOS is an amazing, fascinating and powerful invention which is going to re-structure society itself. Constructive criticism is always welcomed, but please keep it real.

Nice words as usual. I didn't know about this history, interesting indeed. As the system and the community grows this issues will be more rare. I don't know how this could be an issue in such a big community as bitcoin if we decide to switch to 10k delegates DPoS or something.

And don't forget, delegates could only do what they should do.

Also think if we used that anual 1.314.000 BTC as incentive to grow the network, adoption and others instead of just dilution, proof of waste and of course securing the network.

Exactly. In 2014, $500 million USD worth of value, was extracted out of Bitcoin eco-system, then wasted on paying for electricity, PoW hardware and miner/pool profits.

Imagine these $500 million were used for development, promotion and expansion of Bitcoin. While at same time making Bitcoin more secure, no difficulty swings, no hash rate centralization concerns.