Of course. This is just so you can be in calibrae, the easy way, from the start.

and we only just warming up ;p

I would think you aren't posting here to show interest in being in the genesis block

If you didn't premine, you are eligible. Signup on this account (@ausbitbank) was july, so I guess that means you didn't premine. Just one of the many early signups.

To clarify: if you paid for your stake, you did not earn it dishonestly. I don't want to have anyone in at genesis who is just going to immediately try and break everything, you see what I mean? With reputation as a coefficient for vote calculations, such bad behaviour can be regulated by other users.

Big thanks for the donation, it will make it so I can easily pay my next 3 months rent (€450). On wednesday I finally will have a Net1 55mbit connection hooked up, so I will have less hassles with dealing with upping and downing necessary large files. I have the snapshot I will be drawing data from and later today I will have a steemd instance running on my computer and start adding the list of usernames the migration script will use.

I don't regret being somewhat inflammatory in the terminal phase of my discontent at the situation with Steemit, Inc, I had been raising these issues since November last year, when I started dealing with `steemd` and its problems were obvious to me back then. I had been, since almost the beginning, making posts with improvement suggestions, and almost none of them have been adopted. So I had reason to be angry.

But I have now moved on from this. The sense of ownership I got when I finally made the fork repository, was like a chilled carafe of the sweetest springwater after two days in a desert at 40 degrees. I am feeling very upbeat and happy about what is happening now, and as I work through and refine my management and PR strategies, it is moving from palateable to delicious very quickly, and everyone is giving me so much joy with their enthusiasm for the project.

Note that the fork, and the consensus rule changes and token changes, are just the beginning. 

Once Calibrae goes live, I will be shifting from managing the rollout of the fork, towards building [go-calibrae](https://github.com/calibrae-project/go-calibrae), which is going to be a full reimplementation based on [SporeDB](https://gitlab.com/SporeDB/sporedb), which throws out most of the outdated, and inefficient canon of block log format replication, and will use far more efficient, low latency validation and replication algorithms. In theory, go-calibrae will have a sub 1 second transaction clearance time, for one thing. 

The other thing that is a central to go-calibrae is that the codebase itself will become a vote-monetising scheme for funding development. It will operate like github or gitlab, but with a decentralised architecture, and this is where I developed first the idea of making reputation scores, specific, in this case, to the code repository, as a coefficient to mitigate abusive voting, and this concept will also have a massive effect on shutting down the explosion of bots on this platform, that is part of how the chain has grown so goddamned fast in the last two months.

I hope that this serious threat to their userbase does drive Steemit towards upping their game, but they are so far behind the 8-ball that it's not gonna be fun for them, for quite some time. I don't have a huge amount of stake in Steem, but for what it can do for my day to day existence, it is very big, especially if Steemit was managing the platform well. I might be a little minnow again, in terms of my Steem Power, but in Bulgaria, this small stake is enough to cover 6 months rent and utilities bills, even at today's price. So it's not a small thing to me, and that's why I make such a big deal about it. Their mismanagement is threatening to lead me back onto the street, a place I do not want to return to, especially not with autumn just around the corner. Last winter was brutal, -15°C - it is only on account of the community spirit of the Bulgarian people that it was not as bad as it could have been.

Your donation is a really big deal to me, and I am extremely grateful for it. I will do my best to make it work for you as well.

Yes, we are getting serious offers, I now have someone talking about fielding developers and developing funding schema to pay the developers for their work, and as such, I have set up https://github.com/calibrae-project organisation, and a team: <a href="https://github.com/orgs/calibrae-project/teams">https://github.com/orgs/calibrae-project/teams</a> so that interested people can request to join the team and get to work on the many tasks that lay ahead of us. There is now also a chatroom that you can join, at <a href="https://discord.gg/AmyB6ee">https://discord.gg/AmyB6ee</a>.

Of course you do! 

It reminds me there is a number of people who I want to give a shout-out to, that haven't weighed in yet.  Well, only one springs off the top of my mind. @xanoxt. I am chatting with him now to brief him on the situation.

You have another rather fat wallet, I would like to hear about exactly how you got that.

I can see your introduction post from last year, but I would like to hear more about how you came to amass such a large balance of steem power.

Does the bunghole wish you to be duplicated?

As a bot, you are not eligible, sorry.

they are talking about copying a block like bitcoin did. So you would have all your SP here but you would have new SP on a new blockchain. like when the bitcoin split, you still got you bitcoin, but you also got bitcoin cash. This would work the same. And I hope they accept you, you have became a much better member of the community! I vote for them to let you opt in if you feel like, I dont see any reason they could deny you. You didn't premine so you should be all good

Damn straight I remember you. We found you with an algorithm searching for accounts with the biggest self-voted rewards.

You aren't invited. I don't see why you would want to be when self voting is not allowed.

Yeah, this is one of the things that makes me the most disturbed about this platform. You have no idea how much money has been syphoned out of this platform. It would have gone to people like you.

We are still hashing out the account signup system. I think the simplest thing is just all about making reasonable, very low limits to start with. People will be glad for a platform that is not dominated by whales. They won't mind that they can only make a few posts and maybe 10-20 votes a day. They will work their way up, and because there isn't the shadow of the early adopters who premined their way to absurdly large stakes and used it to maintain centralisation of the system, they will invest their little money into it and it will grow organically, and maybe after a time, a lot of money will pile up and the steady price performance will then start bringing big money, who buy in for the money, not for the control. Most of the people with the big stake in here have absolutely nothing to say wortht reading.

By the way, there is no need for you to sign on for a list. We aren't going to migrate accounts. Just check up on the github periodically and you will see a big announcement appear on the README (front page) of all of the repositories here:

https://github.com/calibrae-project/calibrd

I will be working on getting a dev blog created as well, so that will also let you know about it. From a promotion perspective, I think it would be really good if we could get a system set up where people can subscribe to news about it. In fact, maybe the easiest way is if I set up a Facebook page.

In the meantime, you can also just hang out with us in the Discord chat. https://discord.gg/AmyB6ee

Yes. I will make this big so other people notice it:

# Do not forget to save your password as it was on the 5th of August 2017, this will be your account password on Calibrae.