#socialblockchain

Announcing the Social Blockchain Working Group

Hello Steemians,

I am excited to inform you of a new Working Group made up of people intent on leveraging their knowledge gained working with Steem to design and develop a new blockchain featuring improved decentralization, distribution, functionality, and usability with a suite of tools that will empower entrepreneurs to build out decentralized social applications on a truly shared and open ecosystem.

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The Blockchain Working Group

Michael Vandeberg (@vandeberg)
Steve Gerbino (@gerbino)
@theoretical
Nathaniel Caldwell (@youkaicountry)
Andrew Levine (@andrarchy)
Johan Nordberg (@almost-digital)
Scott Sallinen (@anyx)
Aaron Cox (@jesta)

This group, with over 40 years of aggregate blockchain experience, has been meeting over the last few days to discuss various ideas for improving existing blockchain frameworks. We look forward to keeping you informed of our progress.

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@darrenfj(62)· 2351d
as one of my old bosses used to say:

onward thorough the fog!
@freddio(60)· 2354d
that is really cool.
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@thettinaung(55)· 2356d
When ICO would happen?

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@birdinc(60)· 2356d
The goal of this group should be no less than to figure out how to get private keys in the hands of over 100 million people with social blockchain leveraging important lessons learned at Steemit.
@birdinc(60)· 2356d
That's a pretty solid team. I'm happy to contribute.
@waybeyondpadthai(79)· 2356d
This sounds exciting already!!
@steemitcuration(63)· 2356d
So do you want us to dump steem now or let you cash out and we pick up the crumbs or better still you sell we will hold then buy into some shit token you come up with coz you did a great job with steem 👍
@gnanivinnakota(33)· 2356d
It is definitely a great move. Lets hope for fair play.Great days ahead

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@firstamendment(58)· 2356d
Where can we find out more about it. Just heard about it on crim's show.
@spellmaker(66)· 2356d
Lovely to hear you're back on the blockchain!
@ilovedonpaul(39)· 2356d
.........This group, with over 40 years of aggregate blockchain experience........., this is ridiculously falsified and you want me to believe that, how could you say a thing like that "over 40 years of blockchain experience"?, then, how old is blockchain industry?. Please convince me with better theories.
@littlenewthings(73)· 2356d
Really looking forward to see how it will work much better decentralised!
@miti(76)· 2356d
If you'd like this product is to benefit the Steem users, then fork Steem Blockchain and let's get rid of Steemit Stake and Justin Sun. I just can't say it any plainer than that.
@arcange(79)· 2356d
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@marki99(62)· 2357d
Best news we've had since the Tron acquisition. What about @roadscape?
@andrarchy(73)· 2357d
Hey @jarvie I understand your issues and I am confident we can alleviate your concerns. We certainly did not intend to encourage people to stop using Steem. OpenSeed will continuing building tools for Steem application developers and plans to support Steem (or another fork of Steem if that’s what the community chooses) indefinitely.

I apologize for the bad timing but we wanted to make as many people aware that we are meeting as soon as we could so that we could have as much of this conversation in public as possible. We want to communicate with amazing Steem app developers like SteemPeak while we’re in the process of developing our technology, instead of making decisions in a dark room and then telling you all “how it’s going to be.” Again I apologize for the bad timing, that being said, in these difficult times it’s hard to know whether there is such a thing as a “good time” for anything. No community in the world is as important to me as the Steem community. I believe I have proven that.

Whatever we do, I am 100% confident that it will benefit Steemians. But in order to make sure it does, we’ll need your valuable feedback.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I look forward to continuing the conversation.
@twinner(68)· 2357d
Sad and dissapointing to read that their is no Intention via SPS to bring SMT‘s into Production. But maybe I‘m missing a Part ...
@tonytrillions(68)· 2357d
Team spirit is everything in a working group !giphy powerful

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@borislavzlatanov(65)· 2357d
Please check this recent discussion with @blocktrades on evolution of software design: https://steempeak.com/cryptocurrency/@borislavzlatanov/re-blocktrades-q6ffot
@lordbutterfly(80)· 2357d
If youre going to do this... Please consider melding this with the idea of a hardfork thats floating around.
@anthonyadavisii(73)· 2357d
Good luck. May the best #NewNewSteem win!

Or alternatively we all find out respective niche and all win.

_{Don't really feel a necessity to be an either or guy.}

In any case, I have been deeply thinking of alternative designs to Steem and entertaining the prospect of recreating the same experience (or more robust perhaps) but developing a different mechanism for consensus.

Currently, think we have all become well appraised of the shortfalls of purely stake based DPoS.
@hans001(59)· 2357d
Great..

But what about the euros invested I invested in steem and all the work? And that multiple witness servers I paid for more then a year to witness not one block?

A new chain everybody begins a new chain? Now allready 2 different groups? You know that binance Unfroze 12million tron right? So that's liquid now.

Why not make steem better? The development fund steemit inc pre mined is 25% of steem. You can do something with that right? Mr. Sun can say and shout what he wants I'm not crazy and not mad at him trying to do business his way. 1 simple question.... where is the development fund created to maintain the steemblockchain? How did the development get paid then and now?
@beerlover(65)· 2357d
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@detlev(82)· 2357d
Good to know that all this knowledge stay with the community.

Let’s see what comes out of it and let’s join force against the bad ones.

This move deserve a !BEER and we hopefully get soon some facts.
@kirpy0x(33)· 2357d
Wow... :( At this point I'd really just like to see some good witnesses come in and take a pledge to not freeze users funds... Few people will trust the new blockchain after what happened.
@joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2357d
Awesome
@roundbeargames(73)· 2357d
why don't you make these "meetings" public? rather than keeping everything a secret thinking the community is just gonna agree with everything you come up with? are your communications gonna be as malicious as justin's?
@itstime(61)· 2357d
only interested if there is going to be an airdrop to existing steemians...
@cryptanjoman(41)· 2357d
Awesome. Scrap this bogus 'witness' system and you will be off to a great start!
@roundbeargames(73)· 2357d
A sister chain where justin's and his supporters' stake is forked out? Yes pls!

A brand new chain? Not interested.
@joeypark(72)· 2357d
Where will the fund be from? Can you really think it is enough for supporting money to developer using SPS?

You will be definitely failed! We don't need those who fragment STEEM blockchain. Justin Sun is rather much better than you. He has been continuously buying STEEM, and ready to reorganize new STEEM team.

We don't need you. Just GO AWAY From STEEM. You are just trying to fragment STEEM blockchain. If we don't support Justin Sun, STEEM will be freaking shit coin.

GET THE OUT OF HERE! I don't know what you had been doing as the previous position 😏
@melinda010100(80)· 2357d
Thanks @andrarchy for coming on the town hall today and making this project transparent right from the start. What an incredible list of people! It gives me hope for the future! ❤️
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2357d

I am excited

ME too!

I can't wait to see what you clever people come up with. I have no doubt it will be better than what we got right now. In the meantime let's choose a pseudonym for @theoretical, I suggest Theo Retical :)
@themanualbot(72)· 2357d
Is this somehow better than forking out a new "social network" from the original but now corrupted steem?🤔
@mytechtrail(64)· 2357d
Thanks for the heads up, would your group be willing to take on maintenance of STEEM as part of @enginewitty's Proposal # 77.
@isabelpena(70)· 2357d
Good news @andrarchy I hope to see your informers about your progress and be part of them. Count on it.
@ankarlie(64)· 2357d
Sounds interesting good luck in your new endeavor.
@cloudspyder(60)· 2357d
I know you will not fail even Bernie told you today, you've fail in day one. Failure doesn't mean defeat it's a good teacher you know.
@jarvie(75)· 2357d
I want to like this but i have some issues. In this sensitive time where several groups are already trying to figure out solutions to the apparent hostile activities of Tron that apparently pushed many of you from steemit inc... you decide to put more uncertainty into this whole situation. I'm guessing it's not intentional and I'm uncertain if it will be fully problematic.

You gave Not actual solutions but an announcement that you're gonna take a hack at it... with no time frame and no specifics.

I think many of you are very capable obviously and learning from steem's journey could probably lead you to do wonderful things. And in theory you could have something soooo much better ... on paper. But that doesn't always translate... and here you cast doubt on what everyone else is ACTUALLY doing... not planning on doing, but really actually doing right now. It just feels like I worry that people hear "hey don't try to fix anything we're gonna give a shot at it eventually". There is something to be said about everything steem can do even in it's flawed way and I don't want to see people stop posting just because they think another group is gonna have something better... MAYBE... EVENTUALLY.

I support groups working on different things but I just want the rest of the audience reading this to understand that this isn't a concrete promise, this isn't an actual blockchain, this isn't anything until it actually happens. We can cheer them on and then let the market place of ideas decide if their time was worth it.
@resiliencia(75)· 2357d
I am in!
@eirik(69)· 2357d
Hell yeah!
@ammonite(73)· 2357d
The more experiments the better.
@jondoe(76)· 2357d
This doesn't actually seem like it will help steem?
@wattersblue(46)· 2357d
Awesome, so if successful this will take all value from steem?

Why don't you try building something that will benefit steem.
@meesterboom(81)· 2357d
This is more like the kind of stuff I want to see!
@ragnarokdel(60)· 2357d
I have every confidence in your ability to deliver in terms of coding, I sincerely hope you have a good brand name. You will need it to succeed.
@hone.heke(48)· 2357d
Are you aware of any proposals which address the problem of centralization caused by our system of Stake Based Voting for Witnesses? Why can we not have registered voters with their real identities and not have the vote register attached to the Steemit accounts at all?
@mrprofessor(73)· 2357d
Just don't go with an inflationary based coin, this never worked in our history and will never work in digital history, for many many reasons...
@toofasteddie(77)· 2357d
That's a great new indeed.
@chesatochi(73)· 2357d
Are you going to make the fork of the steem code, and implement SMT, communities, and more features?
@steevc(80)· 2357d
That's a great team who could achieve a lot. I'm sure you have learnt a lot from the last few years.
@geekgirl(80)· 2357d
When are the airdrops happening?
@thecryptodrive(70)· 2357d
You guys were the heart of Steem development, keep me in the loop on your progress. Link me you chat server if you have one.
@jga(69)· 2357d
Wonderful! I would be happy to contribute if necessary. Looking forward for the updates :)
@phusionphil(70)· 2357d
Can I vote you guys for witness so I dont have to register for another social media site?

I love the inspiration you all have, I just personally have so much spam from blockchain projects, and I am very OCD about which blockchains I accept in my life, yet even being picky I cant keep up with all these distributed ledgers.

Thank you for Caring, I will sign up if I have too, but if you could just make a side chain on steem that would be great.
@andrewmarkmusic(69)· 2357d
My only input would be to suggest that those involved at the highest levels of this new chain from the devs to the witnesses should not be anonymous. That is to say, they can have any handle they like but their real names should be attached to it and they should not be allowed to have more than one profile. So no one involved at the top of this gets hundreds and thousands of sock-puppet accounts to spew toxicity and propaganda.
@anyx(70)· 2357d
Happy to help advise on design. I don't know at all what will come next, but let's hope we can avoid further division during these uncertain times.
@bobinson(67)· 2357d
Is this project planning to contribute to the Steem DPoS challenges in the short term (ie in less than 7 day time period) or is this an entirely new initiative not related Steem Blockchain ?
@olaexcel(72)· 2357d
We are looking forward to see great project and let it begins 💓🙏💓🙏

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@phgnomo(65)· 2357d
Good Job folks. I hope you guys come up with a better project than the Shitshow Steem have become.

I will be following your progress.
@berniesanders(77)· 2357d
So, you basically announced an announcement?

Congrats, you've failed at your job on day 1.
@epic-fail(70)· 2357d
Call it "Phoenix" , the Blockchain that rose from the ashes of STEEM
@rehan12(79)· 2357d
Exciting times indeed. We will be waiting for the updates and really looking forward to it.
@udezee(71)· 2357d
Let the era begin!
@manniman(69)· 2357d
Very nice, just followed all of you.
@argsolver(53)· 2357d
Great initiative @andrarchy ! Perhaps you could take a look at the Reputational Enhanced Delegated Proof-of-Stake (REDPOS) protocol concept for a #socialblockchain and share your thoughts?
@fredrikaa(74)· 2357d
Kick-Ass! Can't wait to see what you guys have in mind! Would love to see where there are opportunities to do something together👊
@bashadow(70)· 2357d
I can only hope that the lines of communication will open and remain open for updates. I will be trying to follow the developments as close as I can, and hope that we see an end product regardless of what happens to Steem Block Chain. I would like to see SBC continue but I do fear that with the complications that any fork Tron tries to do will end in disaster. Do you have a temporary centralized site, Non - Facebook / Twitter that I can bookmark just in case the SBC gets broke and torn asunder? I just do not have the Faith that some do when it comes to Tron doing Hard Forks and updates on the Steem Block Chain.
@shoemanchu(75)· 2357d
Sounds like it's that time. Plan B in motion 💯 Social Blockchain, I like the name....
@d-pend(76)· 2357d
Great example of something positive coming out of an otherwise turbulent situation. Looking forward to seeing more!
@simplifylife(74)· 2357d
Exciting! Will be looking forward to the updates!
@inertia(75)· 2357d
Nice.
@raycoms(71)· 2357d
Are there ways to join in on the fun when things are kicking off?
@pundito(70)· 2357d
Isn't that we were all waiting for?!?!

Ok, stupid question 🤣 Sure we were!
@masterthematrix(61)· 2357d
Yeah,the old Steem Dev Team back again and now free of incompetent leadership! Congrats to that move! The Steem Community is very happy to see, that you guys are keep on working to improve the Steem Blockchain, and hopefully also to finish up the SMT project :-)
@nancybriti(71)· 2357d
Excellent team. Initiatives like this one are the ones that corroborate the solidity and the capacity of opportunities that STEEM has. Successes in this new project, friends!
@valued-customer(75)· 2357d
I shall await further announcements with bated breath. Thanks for making this happen.
@abbak7(74)· 2357d
What will be the name...it does matter..😎😛

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@jonsnow1983(76)· 2357d
I wish you good fortune in the wars to come mate!
@cardboard(65)· 2357d
So the Plan B is in motion :)
@theoretical(65)· 2357d
I've recently written about my plans to build a new and better blockchain. It's quite a monumental endeavor for a single person. I'm happy that everyone in this post feels the same way, wants to form a Working Group, and I won't have to go it alone!
@dalz(81)· 2357d
Haleluya :)

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