Quote from: emmanux on March 29, 2018, 06:19:29 AM

Quote from: Big Naturals on March 29, 2018, 03:53:25 AM

Quote from: Swinging Phallus on March 29, 2018, 03:44:22 AM

Thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense, how ever i question the integrity of notary nodes in a longterm situation, Since voting is involved. As you said, I under stand that they can't falsify blocks, but the majority of new kmd will be held by notary nodes, can't that lead to manipulation when it comes to voting (self voting and bribery).

Most new KMD comes from 5% accrued to ALL KMD, the notaries share of new supply by comparison is rather small.

The optimum strategy though is for whales to compound their stacks over the next few years to maximise their VOTE power, but that'll just create mega HODL, which is good for price rise for everyone, and whales have an incentive to pick notaries wisely.

Centralization is still a bad thing among notaries.
Centralized notaries are less compelled to innovation, competitiveness and professionalism. They're basically leaches (at notarization activity). Sad truth.
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I agree centralization is a bad thing, and i expect most whales will spread their vote around multiple candidates and favor those running in only one region, and those who didn't run last time. Some of those candidates happen to be offering rev shares too, so it's a win win for the whales - they get a rev share by supporting more independent candidates.

Obviously some whales will have private deals we'll never know about, and some whales are also notaries and will vote themselves in. Overall the competition for places is much higher this year than I expected, which is great!