Hardfork is coming.
Everyone seems to be talking about the hardfork. About how it will change the steemit economy and how it will empower minnows.
Surprisingly, not many are talking about what bad might come because of this hardfork.
So let's weigh it down.
(Note:I'm not an expert. So please forgive me for any mistake)
The proposed hardfork will bring changes in voting and curation.
I'll be focus on the voting aspect in this post.
The number of votes to fully drain your voting power are decreased from 200 to 50. Which means that each vote is now 4X powerful.
So my vote of 0.02 will become 0.08 which is a pretty good change.
But.
Who will be benefitted from this the most? The minnows or the dolphins? I'm not talking about whales here because most of them are not currently voting.
Let us take an example of a Dolphin, say X and a minnow, say Y.
Let's the dolphin and the minnow make 2000$ and 10$ on average per post.
So after hf19, they will be making 8000$ and 40$ for a single post respectively, that is if we don't consider the changes in voting trends.
So 8000$ (it will be even more for some) is very high for one post. And if whales come back, which is quite likely, that number will be pumped even higher.
The dolphins will be the new whales soon.
Now let's see the minnows. They will be making far less. Far far less that what the dolphins are making.
So what I propose is that, maybe there should be a limit to what one can make from a single post.
Because as far as I have seen, the same people have always been trending. It is always some of the top authors. Which is probably also because they vote for each other which isn't a bad thing. They have the right to vote whomever they want.
But if there is a limit, say at 2000$, once the top authors have reached the limit, there will be a chance for the minnows to get better rewards. The rest of 6000$ from the 8000$ we assumed before will be redistributed to the minnows.
There might just be a better distribution of rewards.