i wish if i can be a delegate but 1000 semux is too much for me to burn, hope that development team will consider to decrease it when the main network launched .
why should developers reduce the number of votes? as I understand it, there is already a queue of delegates, I opened a purse and the number of delegates is already 109, I imagine what will happen if the developers go to this step. Or there was some announcement about a decrease in the number of votes after the launch of the mainet???
I don't think it would reduce the number of votes too much unless they changed the rules to allow more delegates to become validators. Right now about 30k votes plus 1000 sem delegate registration burn to become a validator. My guess is the 1000 is because it takes resources to track delegates on the network, and so you don't want anyone doing it that isn't intending to become a validator. Basically to prevent spamming delegates while not discouraging someone from starting a pool, etc. Right now the burn is about 1/30th of the votes needed to become a validator so it doesn't seem high from that perspective. I haven't heard any plans to change it so I would be surprised if they did. Although my guess is we will have a ratio of delegates to validators that is closer to 1:1 once mainnet launches. Right now people know they will get their 1000 sem back at mainnet launch, and only 64 slots, so we have almost 2:1 delegates to validators. I bet mainnet has less than 109 delegates for a while, but it will be interesting to see what actually happens.
More and more coins are using BFT algorithm. Semux is one of them. Is Semux the first? Perhaps it is basing on JAVA.But JAVA is not a very complex technology.What's a place where Senux's different?
Yeah, I'd like to know more about other projects with similar BFT algorithms. For example, what coin has the most similar protocol? I think that some other coins refer to validators as "witnesses." I think Bitshares and steemit do. Also NEO has validators it calls "bookkeepers."
