So, witnesses have no power to censor any transactions because that would go conflict with all the full nodes
could you shutdown witnesses of tonych for a day and we will see how transactions will not be censored? By the way is Tony still alive? Asking because haven't seen any meetup with him for a while. He must be doing something for real world adoption in his hole?
on a serious note why you still didn't replace even half of the witnesses? Is no one interested in breakthrough technology?
The goal is not to replace the witnesses with some anonymous randos, they still have to fit into the the requirements.
https://wiki.obyte.org/Witness#How_to_become_a_witnessSo, yeah, as long as more than six Tony's witnesses are not replaced, there is risk Obyte would need a hard-fork to recover the loss of founder.
I also think that the process has been slow (way slower than expected), but then again it is lot of work and it has become more to focus when Valerius joined in last summer.
https://medium.com/obyte/the-future-of-byteball-the-byteball-foundation-cca9d495bf46There are already some witnesses lined up, but not announced yet.
https://twitter.com/ObyteOrg/status/1095977601271820288And I have advised many on setting the witness node up, so I am sure there will be more to come.