Quote from: Peachy on October 06, 2015, 01:42:51 AM

Voting, Delegating, Witnessing... uggh.. I'm tired already.

Sorry, I just like my money boring and predictable, but I'm (maybe) in the minority as I'm usually too busy with other tasks and don't want to have to keep monitoring my wallet hour-by-hour to be sure my dollar is still worth a dollar.

Why can't all of this be automated? Do we really need all these 'people' involved?

Also seems like only those with beefy hardware will get earnings and fees. What about those with lower end equipment (including smartphones)? Even if they only confirm 1 txn they should get something for contributing work towards securing the ecosystem.

Get elected and get paid by the system to upgrade your rig to the size nodes required at any point in time.
There is no such thing as people who can't participate. They just have to be trusted by the stakeholders.
BitShares is the system that pays everybody, rich or poor, who is trusted enough to sign our blocks to get the equipment they need.

Read up on the two years of BitShares theory about how to manage decentralization and overcome the natural tendency of all systems to centralize on a few rich miners. Graphene is an industrial grade blockchain and signing blocks on cell phones is not needed for any conceivable reason. It doesn't make system engineering sense. (You still will be able to have a cell phone wallet, but that's a different system function.)

We are making an upgrade to all our incredible new features available for any developer who want's to upgrade her coin to a new platform for essentially free. Hundreds of coins currently listen on coinmarketcap could become state of the art overnight, if we didn't have such sad "not invented here" attitudes.

What happened to the cooperative attitude the crypto community used to have?

These days we seem awfully eager to throw stones through other people's front windows.