Quote from: Unthinkingbit on June 12, 2018, 10:23:20 PM

I want to give authority to Novacadian to hand out up to 12 shares per round to help Steemit or save it from corruption.

Novacadian agreed to do this. If Novacadian becomes corrupt and starts giving away shares for no reason, which I do not expect at all, then Novacadian would lose the share authority. Any objections?

Thank you, Unthinkingbit. That will be a great help with inroads on the steem blockchain at the moment.

Over the last few weeks a bounty idea has been forming. The water has been tested to get some feedback about its viability. But first allow me to explain the issue it is meant to address.

There is, at present, no distinction between steem which is generated through the upvoting of carbon based lifeforms and that generated by the upvoting of software bots. Voting bots are somewhat of a wedge issue in the steem community. It is my feeling that by fostering a solution which all parties feel happy with could help our @devcoin witness presence in the community. It seems what is needed is a decentralized anonymous CAPCHA system. Just to have the distinction would help as SMT distributors come on stream in the next steem fork. They may choose to only tokenize rewards for real proof of brain upvotes for example.

One idea which has been used by me to sell the idea a bit, is to compare bot generated steem as counterfeit steem. This seems to have gotten some traction even among top twenty witnesses.

The counterfeit idea was proposed in the following steem posting:

https://steemit.com/steem-network/@novacadian/where-is-the-trust-in-proof-of-brain-mining

That posting was followed up with one explaining the idea of a decentralized anonymous CAPCHA system. That was proposed in the following steem posting:

https://steemit.com/steem/@novacadian/a-decentralized-capcha-annonymous-proof-of-brain-verification

The above posting received some good feedback in the comments about the practicality of the project and how one may approach it. It certainly was not ruled out altogether.

It seemed like a good time to present this conversation to the DevCoin Community in the hope of getting feedback about the project and possible pitfalls along the way.

Once a better handle is had on a good approach then a bounty proposal shall be written up and posted to this link.

Feel free to jump into the discussions on the steem blockchain in the comments of the postings mentioned above or PM me on this forum if you find the project of interest and have an approach in mind.

Thanks!

- Nova