Big Plans for 2022 for Proof of Brain.Blog

I had a little chat with Hive account@ajanaku here and without sharing things that might be private. Some thoughts did occur to me in the course of our conversation:

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1. live off chain chat is something expected.
2. There are several bugs and usability issues I need to squash prior to doing that.
3. I need to remove flags from interface and replace with. Flagged for fraud, flagged for plagiarism.
4. And also a way to create invoices so we don't rely on people typing things perfectly when sending POB.

Several Bugs.

Some of these I noticed myself and a couple have been noticed by others. These involve basic wallet functions displaying zero for non-zero staked amounts making it impossible to delegate or power-down with the Proofofbrain.blog wallet. Strangely, nobody has complained. Perhaps there is no reason to ever powerdown? There is also one for reporting of rewards. Right now, I'm away from my dev box and uable to do a thing about it.

Chat and Off-chain

There are times when you wish to chat with another user and you want to do this off-chain. Others have come to expect builtin chat in a social media platform. It has always been a sorry work-around that we have to use Discord to do real time chats we don't want stored in the blockchain.

Flags But Not "Just Because"

Flags with explanation should be part of the interface and replace the simple downvote button we currently have. It is not instructive to recieve a flag for a post without explanation. You learn not say certain things in Hive. Like don't shit on the Hive price or the compare Hive to some kind of dictatorship. I don't really see any benefit to comparing Hive to Nazi Germany when most English speaking countries have started following the Chinese example.

There are worse cases I can point to. Sometimes posts were flagged for the author being someone's wife. I'm talking about Hive account@jerrybanfield's wife. I am not his super-fan. I am not his enemy. But in principle this is wrong. Flagged to a negative reputation score. Her crime? Association?

There is also the example of being flagged for having the correct idea of staying the hell away from the clot-shots but the high stake hive user has the wrong idea? Look at Vaers and now how the death rate is increasing in India by 40%. It's only because they are not counting the recently vaccinated death injuries as COVID deaths that they see it.

Then there is flagging for being rewarded too much. This is rather dubious to me, but the community has seemed to accept it and I'm flexible here. Let me ask if 445 decide something is worth votes, should two votes be allowed to make the reward zero?

Invoices

Whereas most of the time crypto involves 'push payments', where the sender decides what to spend and how to make the transaction, 'pull payments' work the opposite direction. In the credit card world this is automatic but to make sense with crypto-currencies, each invoice must be manually approved by the owner.

Invoices are little pull-payments. In a credit card, your merchant puts the exact values in and then the bank approves it yes or no. In the crypto-world, the merchant creates a transaction for you (after you click a button) and then allows you to sign it somehow. This is something that is done by Hive account@privex these days for Hive transactions via Hive Keychain. A similar thing can be done with POB transactions. In fact a kind of invoice method is used in paying for promotions for Proofofbrain.blog already.

It would be handy if regular users could create an invoice for another user without having to write his own web-interface 🤗 Then when the other user pays, we make sure there are no errors involved with mistyping the user id.

This is also a good idea for exchanges, like Hive account@blocktrades or Hive account@bittrex for ensuring the user has the correct memo-id and amount. For no good reason they rely on the memo-id for know which user it belongs to, when we have send to name accounts? Just use the account id. Why isn't this obvious?