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Archived Proposals / Re-Enable Team BiblePay Requirement in PODC
« on: January 19, 2019, 04:25:52 PM »
I recommend that we hold an emergency vote that Proposes that Team BiblePay be REQUIRED to participate in PODC rewards (in contrast to having no team requirement).
The reason for this is TheSnat has discovered that 5 Gridcoin users are sharing UTXOs by sending them back and forth to each other more than once per day.
Although we have a feature to Stop this behavior, the spork is not fully enabled in prod because it would require a mandatory upgrade (to ensure all of the remaining sancs honor this setting).
In the mean time I feel it is highly unfair to leave this activity unchecked at the expense of our core team. (The activity is penalizing small users rewards at the expense of the bad actors). (We estimate the ill-achieved UTXOs to be rewarding 20% of the PODC budget per day.)
Therefore I recommend that we vote in the Team Requirement to be REQUIRED again within 48 hours.
Secondly, we have been very patient, and the original idea behind Not requiring the team was that BiblePay would grow in popularity by reaching the mass of boinc users. IMHO, it clearly has not had that effect. What we have observed is a few very large users (I am told Turkish) have been hogging the top rewards, and we have seen stagnation. This is actually driving away our smaller users.
Thirdly, our PODC difficulty level has not increased since we removed the team requirement, it has decreased.
In light of this I recommend the sanctuaries consider these factors to vote the way you feel would be best for the community at large.
Vote YES for us to REQUIRE TEAM BIBLEPAY to participate in PODC.
Vote NO for us to leave PODC as is and Not require a particular team.
The reason for this is TheSnat has discovered that 5 Gridcoin users are sharing UTXOs by sending them back and forth to each other more than once per day.
Although we have a feature to Stop this behavior, the spork is not fully enabled in prod because it would require a mandatory upgrade (to ensure all of the remaining sancs honor this setting).
In the mean time I feel it is highly unfair to leave this activity unchecked at the expense of our core team. (The activity is penalizing small users rewards at the expense of the bad actors). (We estimate the ill-achieved UTXOs to be rewarding 20% of the PODC budget per day.)
Therefore I recommend that we vote in the Team Requirement to be REQUIRED again within 48 hours.
Secondly, we have been very patient, and the original idea behind Not requiring the team was that BiblePay would grow in popularity by reaching the mass of boinc users. IMHO, it clearly has not had that effect. What we have observed is a few very large users (I am told Turkish) have been hogging the top rewards, and we have seen stagnation. This is actually driving away our smaller users.
Thirdly, our PODC difficulty level has not increased since we removed the team requirement, it has decreased.
In light of this I recommend the sanctuaries consider these factors to vote the way you feel would be best for the community at large.
Vote YES for us to REQUIRE TEAM BIBLEPAY to participate in PODC.
Vote NO for us to leave PODC as is and Not require a particular team.