Block explorer extension for assets
Suggestion: Warnings about certain assets

In the past there have already been discussions about blacklisting assets - which I do not want to repeat here. Me personally, I am strongly opposed to any kind of censorship. "Caveat emptor (Buyer beware)" is a more grown up concept than the childish "Consumer protection by censorship and prohibition". A good option is whitelisting assets (see the HZ "trusted assets" page), but there are yet only 4, and I always thought ...

... "what about all the other 100+ HZ assets out there"?
That is why I built my extension asset.phtml. I would want it to always display all assets ... scam, test, or proper ... regardless. What is on the blockchain, gets reported!

But still -especially where without any doubts- I consider ADDITIONAL information is appropriate ... if a certain asset should rather not be bought. Good thinking?

So this is what I coded, to implement a first approximation of that idea:

asset warnings

Some assets are known to be test assets, or revoked (by the issuer), or even scams (perhaps, probably or proven scams).

However, the (too) centralized power of the only official block explorer ... needs a balance between user protection and issuer protection (and censorship is bad)!

So with my 'asset.phtml' ... all assets are still shown - but in some cases with a clear warning.

All is hardcoded into an XML file.
I urge the team to always link back to a forum post where detailed explanations are given, and can be discussed - so that e.g. the issuer gets a chance to react to the suspicion.

examples for the different warnings:

• test asset http://188.226.155.38:8080/hzbe/?page=asset&id=5903523947573024709
  clearly intended to be only a test
  
  
• revoked asset http://188.226.155.38:8080/hzbe/?page=asset&id=16661902544444460183
  revoked by the issuer
  
  
• perhaps scam http://188.226.155.38:8080/hzbe/?page=asset&id=3
  there must be a heavy suspicion before using this!
• probably scam http://188.226.155.38:8080/hzbe/?page=asset&id=4
  almost sure, not many doubts left.
• proven scam http://188.226.155.38:8080/hzbe/?page=asset&id=5
  definitely no doubts.

To be totally clear:
Almost all assets will show none of those warnings
- because they are intended to be, and run as proper assets.

What do you think about that suggested system?

P.S.:
This whole "warnings" function is coded now, but it can be easily switched off completely.
If you find it too much to worry about for now ... just go back to the "quick start" posting above now.

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