I am very glad you are talking about this because I believe your voice is likely to be heard. I know others have talked about this in the past, but I don't see this being taken as seriously as I would like it to be.
This is the only real negative I see on this platform. Any other problems are rather trivial, but like you say, this could get someone hurt.
Thank you for talking about it and I hope this conversation gets some traction.
Censorship and the fact that users can't express themselves freely for fear of being downvoted by a whale is also a huge problem imo. https://steemit.com/moderation/@snowflake/the-last-missing-piece-of-the-steem-puzzle
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You do have a point there. In certain situations, that comes too close to theft, albeit without the violence.
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Your welcome, Indeed lets make sure we get this conversation some traction.
It needs to be seriously addressed.
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Hi, I just followed and upvoted you. Please kindly follow me back, thanks.
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This is a serious issue that many have not thought about. This needs to be addressed immediatly.
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I have thought about this too. It should be an optional. The right to flaunt your wealth on steemit should be optional. Not sure what the purpose is apart from promoting more investments into Steemit.
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It encourages e to participate. But yes, the reality of having any sort of monetary value share publicly could be be a security issue depending on where you live.
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Yeah, it's not the greatest feature. I think it causes people to follow whales around a bit too much as well.
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Yea it's not like they need to make it a private blockchain just make it so you have to dig a bit to see that information.
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I agree with you @diggndeeper and let's be fair to SteemIt too here. The theft that took place in person actually shocked quite a few people because many expected that theft would always be digital. I think this can be something SteemIt adds to it, if it chooses (as @fyrstikken may say if we ask enough), but I don't think SteemIt intended to bring harm or considered this would become an issue. The theft shocked quite a few people at the time.
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wow! I think I agree with you on that privacy policy and security on people's account cos as for me, that doesn't have any good amount in my steem account. So seeing people's accounts makes me wanna work hard to arrive at such figure but the human mind is so dangerous and for that reason, I totally agree with you. And for such good post am willing to follow and upvote you.
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Agreed, Our security is being compromised just to get more sign ups by showing off the wallet balance.
Seriously, Some Action has to be taken immediatly!
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the wallet balance IS being showed to get signups, so what? lol people can hold their Steempower in multiple accounts but ten it wont do them s good, wont get s much curation, but yeh we need black steem
OR MAYBE NOT maybe we need money to be public? Maybe attracting thieves is just the opportunity cost, i mean you cant just mke teem accounts private, the whole point is transparency, and you can just hold money in bittrex have some anon steem accounts, but no steempower, SO communities will fix this, and also we will have privacy BUT then it wont be as popular....
so its a trade off
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Yep, especially those who has notoriety as personalities. It's one thing to assume someone has money because they're popular on youtube, it's another thing to basically see their bank account balance.
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its not a bank account balance its steem blockchain wallet, it is up to the user t simply not reveal who they are! But we will have black steem, picokernal talked about that, and its definitely happening also thejohafiles talked about it last year, hah the richer the steemian the more interested they are in funding private steem accounts,
The answer is on EOS not steem, EOS will facilitate the privacy from the beginning
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So what is "black Steem"?
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Well they can always remove their steem and have another account delegating all the steem power. On the other hand that just makes it harder to find out and less obvious. I think the nature of the steem blockchain is people will just have to get used to it being public in some degree because otherwise it would need to be a private blockchain like Monero.
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Oh, I am scared that someone know about my 3 steems
Please help me, I need professional bodyguard for 1$ per month. ))
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Sure! I could do that for 3 months :D
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I am with you bro I love the idea
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