5 billion US dollars of "air currency", BM wants to rely on a few "what if" to turn over?
On November 28th, BM suddenly appeared in the EOS telegram group. In the discussion with community members, BM started with multiple rhetorical questions "what if", revealing to the community members that in addition to "has found a solution to privacy and ultimate expansion", "will achieve 10 million TPS", "issuing new coins "And so on.
Panic came all of a sudden, "BM is going to leave EOS?" "BM is going to issue new coins?"
On the 29th, BM reappeared in the EOS community to refute the rumors above, and reiterated that he would not leave EOS, and that his remarks in the telegram group were new ideas and some jokes that came up by chance.
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BM is going to abandon EOS?
On the morning of November 28th, BM appeared in the EOS Telegram group.
In this chat, BM did not talk too much about the specific technical improvements of the EOS team. Instead, he proposed several imaginative solutions with the rhetorical question "what if I told you..." :
What if I tell you that I have found a solution to privacy and ultimate expansion, and I don't use zk-SNARK?
What if I told you that I achieved 10 million TPS without any fees?
What if I told you this would have no RAM or disk issues?
What if I told you that everyone can run a full node and only need 200ms confirmation time?
What if I told you that there are no more votes and stakes?
What if I told you I wasn't kidding?
What if I told you that I will start planning these in 2019?
What if I told you that a new currency will be issued as a common currency between Mars and Earth?
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Soon after, BM's voice in the group was interpreted as "BM has found a new consensus to replace DPOS and will develop new tokens in 2019".
In June of this year, after the difficult launch of the EOS mainnet, negative news such as design flaws in the gaming public chain and RAM mechanism, and EOS coolness continued. After the news that BM will develop new tokens was widely spread, panic spread again. Many netizens have speculated that BM may leave EOS.
In response to BM's speech, Chen Weixing also commented on Weibo,Said BM is ready for a new scam routine。
After the public opinion fermented, BM reappeared on the 29th and explained his speech in the telegram group:
I reiterate here:I will not leave EOS. In the process of dealing with EOS security and scalability, I stumbled upon a new idea for cryptographic tokens,IIJust exploring whether there is a market for these tradeoffs. EOSIO is the future of blockchain and the Block.one team is making it faster, more secure, more scalable and more flexible every day.
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Community members: This will lead to misunderstanding and prejudice against EOS for a long time
After BM refuted the rumors, many core members of the community also voiced their support for BM.
"BM is not a god, so you don't have to speculate on his every word. You treat him as a friend, just chatting with you occasionally, bragging, and telling you some of his latest whimsical ideas." EOS community member Chamao said in Said in the circle of friends.
Lao Lang, the founder of Ouchain, one of the super node members, agrees with this. He believes that BM is just bragging with everyone in the telegram group and put forward some latest ideas.
HelloEOS Zi Cen even posted 4 Moments in a row to support BM. He confessed to Odaily,The rumors this time are very harmful to EOS, BM, and the entire community. Most people will have misunderstandings and prejudices against EOS for a long time, and the prejudice of many ordinary investors against EOS may last for several years。
According to the interpretation of HelloEOS,EOS is like Tencent, and BM’s new idea is just Q coins, which will not affect the status of EOS：
BM had the original design inspiration of a cryptocurrency in his mind yesterday, and he is just beginning to think about whether this new idea has the value of realization.Even if this cryptocurrency is actually implemented, it is just a currency。EOS is different, it is a software platform with wireless application scenarios, EOS is like Tencent, and yesterday’s new ideas are at best Q coins, which will definitely not affect the status of EOS.
Regarding the misinterpretation of the outside world, Lao Lang believes that:
Since the general environment is in a bear market, everyone's interpretation is pessimistic，If it is placed in a bull market, everyone's interpretation may become "BM proposes a new idea to solve the stable currency problem that plagues the development of the currency circle.secondary title
How would EOS be without DPoS
Even if BM did not make any definite commitment to the ideas he proposed, community members firmly believe that BM is just a "cowhide". But what BM said about subverting the existing design of EOS, "There is no DPoS", "No voting or equity pledge is needed", "Everyone can run the full node", etc. are still imaginative.
DPoS is the consensus mechanism of EOS. It stipulates that all coin holders vote for 21 supernodes with their EOS. Only these 21 supernodes have the right to produce blocks. Theoretically, a round of voting takes place every minute, which means that supernodes can change at any time.
Before the launch of the EOS mainnet, this triggered a wave of super node elections, and also made EOS the top spot of the mainstream currency, and received a lot of enthusiasm from the majority of currency people. Someone commented that BM is actually a marketing genius.
People in the industry satirized EOS's DPoS mechanism, "It's like the People's Congress system, but it is actually more centralized than the People's Congress because it only has 21 super nodes."
People started to discuss, if what BM said is true, canceling voting, DPoS and implementing full nodes, what does that mean for EOS? Some people believe that it will definitely directly affect the interests of those who spent huge sums of money to buy EOS votes and participate in super node elections.
"The main question is, if DPoS is canceled, what will he replace it with? He said: 'What if I say use a full node method, and the time to confirm the transaction is shortened to 200 milliseconds?' It sounds like a perfect solution." solution, but the question is, how to realize it?” An industry insider analyzed to Odaily.
As one of the super node members, Laolang does not want to comment on this point of view. He said: "BM is not Trump, and I don't bother to interpret the bragging words in the telegram group. In addition, the US Department of Defense does not ignore (ignore) Trump , see Trump speak on Twitter again, and just say 'stupid' silently."
And Zicen believes that if what BM said can really be realized, it will be a good thing:
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How would EOS be without BM?
The outbreak of BM's departure from EOS is not unrelated to BM's "black history" in BTS and STEEM. Before the EOS project, BM also worked on two projects, BTS and STEEM, and BM chose to leave.
Netizens ridiculed that BM is just a repeat of the old drama, and the situation of EOS is almost the same as that of BTS and STEEM at that time.
In this regard, Zi Cen complained for BM on his Weibo. He said that BM's departure from BTS and STEEM was really involuntary. BM has repeatedly clarified that he will not leave unless the EOS holder votes to drive him away.
On the other hand, the BTS and STEEM projects that BM had left before, although BM was missing, the projects still continued to operate, and the activity of the projects ranked among the top ten.But there are also media reports, the STEEM project is shrinking in cash flow, and is laying off staff at a rate of 70%.
Many people began to reflect that behind the panic caused by rumors of BM's departure, people were worried that a single hair would affect the whole body, and it also explained the weight of BM in EOS. Some people compare BM to Vitalik, calling BM the core of the EOS community. After BM leaves, EOS may be "a cold tea when people leave".
"In the early stage of the project, the core is of course inseparable. EOS is stable and mature enough, and the community development force is getting stronger and stronger. After the prosperity of the third-party dapp ecosystem, the dependence on this core will gradually become a spiritual demand." Zi Cen told Odaily, BM eventually It can also be like Satoshi Nakamoto, who does not need actual development output, but only exists as a spiritual leader, "but this is a gradual evolution process, and it takes time, and it is hard to predict how long it will take. I guess it will be about three to five years .”
