Peter Conrad

ISTR that there was a core issue and/or bsip request for a feature to "shut down" an asset and/or its markets. Can't find it right now, does anyone remember? This...

Ah, yes. Thanks Dan!

Hm, interesting. This could even work if there was a mechanism for exchanging the "Primary BTC" tokens for any of the gateway tokens. Something like Bancor would be useful...

> The Fiat price of BTC have a little difference in some areas. Yes, but the gateway UIAs are not the same as actual BTC. E. g. one gateway may...

Related: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/953

> Do margin positions also count as locked BTS? The BTS collateral in margin positions is not locked up - a variable part of it is backing the debt and...

> but I would approach the design of any such feature with extreme caution Absolutely! I think a small number of colluding witnesses could cause irregular block misses for a...

Automatic disabling must take extreme situations (chain halt) into account. E. g. witnesses are not disabled if LIB is before previous maintenance interval.

> For committee members and workers, there is nothing to check, but totally relies on the creators' action. Yes. This is supposed to be a tool for responsible community members....

Right now, an attacker who can DDOS 6 of 21 witnesses will cause a chain halt after some time because LIB will no longer advance. This proposal improves on that...