Another one for the resteem tray on this topic.  Nice analogy, and this:

> In the long run I think even more powerful than Voting Mana. (Renting RC's is the future in my opinion and will be more profitable than up-voting yourself or voting bots).

Is some serious food for thought.

Each fork brings early discomfort, and a re-balance of approach/VP/Rewards, and now Resource Credits.  I'm sure this will happen soon, and Steem will be better for it.

Enjoy your weekend!

I upvoted your post.

Keep steeming for a better tomorrow.
@Acknowledgement - God Bless

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hi @exyle !

that is a very smart analogy, who works well ! 
I really share your feelings about the need for SP, future and present !
Thanks for sharing your thoughts as always ! Have a super weekend :-)

Finally, a measured post that goes behind the blame everyone popular approach. Yes, this is a better way to allocate cost than bandwidth was, and it does set up the potential for future growth. The change over was not as elegant as perhaps hoped for, and it will take time to settle the true prices, but it is a good idea to look beyond the knee jerk reaction. You have my witness vote (if I didn't already vote for you).

Well its definitely no doubt its a problem recently but looking ahead good for platform giving more value to steemit and content creators back in return the quality will be back which was lacking for quite a time but some problems need to be solved out quickly :) steemit team is working lets hope for the best

This was a great explanation and very well written.  Thanks for sharing it.  I think a lot of people are still really confused about the changes that HF20 brought and it is going to take some time for everyone to get on the same page.

I agree a thousand times.

I agree with you and like your comparison. 1000 SP should be sufficient for most people to operate their account and I need to grow some more to achieve this. I wont stop their as I can see the value in holding way more and the aim is to grow as much as possible.
SMT's will I think drive the growth and we have a short time to get as big as possible maybe you can target 200 K by then.

The problem is that it is a lot easier to explain to those with lots of steem power than those newbies starting out, and they are the most important set of users IMO. 

Even I with above 500SP am not entirely happy but I do understand that it is a necessity for us to thrive.

Let us keep watching and hoping it works out for the best

Hey, @exyle.

Now that people are turning the corner from posts that shout and threaten STEEM or shout and threaten those who shout and threaten STEEM, it is nice to take a look at what was intended for RCs, and to realize that in the end, yes, it will be better for all of us, since we'll more or less be 'paying' for what we use, rather than potentially paying for what we use, plus someone else, or the reverse—not even paying for ourselves.

In my mind, whether there's costs that are visible to see, like now, or costs that are invisible, as was the case with bandwidth, is probably more to the heart of the matter when it comes to why people are upset (other than not being able to function at all).

I don't think people care that much how things are done, and I think most would agree that a fairer allocation of costs is good. What I don't think most want to do is worry about whether they can do anything or not, or try to somehow figure out if they have enough RCs to function, period.

There's a minimum amount that people need to be able to do, regardless of their RCs, in order to do anything meaningful here. Time available to it should be the main limiting factor, not whether or not you can interact to a certain level on the site, so that you can grow your account enough so that you can build up to the desired level.

Investing, no matter how much people might wish others to do, is not going to be an option for a lot of people here. So, effectively, they're the ones without the gas to get where they need to go once the 10 x patch is lifted.

This is very true. I think more power users on Steem should post about the Hardfork20, RCs and mana so that all the new users are aware of it. I am doing it with my account @steemladder https://steemit.com/hardfork/@steemladder/hardfork20-resource-credits-and-what-you-can-do

However RCs did introduce themselves to many users with this image ;)

https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNtpwhxNJPG1F5t3HY9iRaRVqtsaRDukTpBdbEvP9xvFs/steem-blockchain-hardfork-velocity-user-locked-out.png

Spot on!

Love the comparison and analogy with RCs to Gas... A thought that ran through my mind was people questioning why DApps and other projects would want to use the Steem blockchain over any other blockchain platform (Ethereum for example) when it’s required that they buy and power up STEEM for the RCs they need.

The answer to this question is the same as what you mentioned in your post: RCs regenerate over time. Yes, these DApps will have to buy STEEM and power up, but they will not lose that STEEM as they use their RCs for actions on the blockchain.

Compare that to being a project on a blockchain like ETH, where you have to actually pay per TX in the form of GAS... 

On Steem, DApps won’t have to pay per transaction, but rather, simply hold a stake in order to transact - a stake that is actually growing and earning money overtime! 

RCs are exciting. I didn’t fully grasp the concept and implications until I read more about it from yourself and a few other influencers on the blockchain. Thanks for keeping us informed 😊

Thank You for a good explanation. 
But its still hard for a new user who just joined steem community & has to pass through this hardfork where he can't do much. 
hope for the best. :)

I agree. A more fine-grained measurement and pricing of resource consumption, that is, separating voting and transactions will make owning SP more attractive in the future.

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Agreed!!!!! Congrats on reaching your goal of 150k SP!!!!

This is a great analogy to use!  Thr RC system seems to be quite flexible and presents many opportunities to be truthful.  I think the problem was the buf that started this out for most at a negative amount.  After the patch, it seemed to accelerate pretty quickly and with yesterday’s patch it was almost completely fixed for most.  I now feel it is quite an abundant resource for me despite actively engaging in the ecosystem. Look forward to the possibilities here with this!

Looks like someone/something topped up my tank in the night. 😎

![Screenshot_2018-09-29-07-16-11.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXPjHK1WncA2eHHUTCjPDqGbGnzzkNcxjCAte3zhR1yPC/Screenshot_2018-09-29-07-16-11.png)

Great comparison with roads. In Slovenia, people need to pay a yearly tool for highways around 100 Euros no matter how often they use them.

We were using free public transportation than. I didn't count how many times I saw this promotional question. "How much did you earn from facebook so far?" That's not the case anymore, because I didn't pay to post a stupid photo on fb as well, so it was a fair deal. Plus if you invest $1k in instagram right now you may have a more profitable business by selling cups or t-shirts or w/e.

![Batman-Slapping-Robin.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRYkrGQgHZBb3nP9qXKBsJN28KzEepWhgSM8g8hnh2Pc6/Batman-Slapping-Robin.png)

I get it it was kinda necessary step but it doesn't have to be this expensive. People trying to smooth it and call as a "freemium" service, I never used a freemium service that I need to invest at least $100, my account holding ~$1k and able to comment ~34 without any vote or transaction. I never used or saw a high-end premium service. Except these https://richkids.life/ or https://www.wired.com/2008/08/eight-people-bo/

It's a social network, it's called, promoted and waiting for investments upon being social network. Now it's a social network with a bodyguard at the door asking for $100 for entry oh before I forget. steemd already removed the estimated cost which were 14.- for comments now beem says 15.1- https://beempy.com/power/oups

Great post as always. 
We have two kind of steemians. 
One that complain and spread negativity. 
Another steemian that explain the useful of the change and rally us together. 
Thanks. 
Your analogy is clear and concise. 
If #steem is a game no need to do change. 
I think #steem as a business. 
Sometimes business made changes that are not welcome to everyone. 
I was not happy with the intermittent of not posting. 
But I welcome the true value of RC. 
The more I delve in, the more I see the rapport to get steem to the top 20 coins. 
We all want #steem at $10, definitely we all need to step up and make it happen. 
Believe everyone will be fine. 
Just pure human behavior. 
Keep on postin’

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>In the long run I think even more powerful than Voting Mana. (Renting RC's is the future in my opinion and will be more profitable than up-voting yourself or voting bots).

Do you know if it will be possible to rent/lease/delegate RC’s independent of Voting Power (mana)? Therefor being able to earn an income stream from unused RC strength but still maintain voting strength.

Implementation cock up aside, I think RCs are an excellent development. It's just completely intuitive how it'd going to cut back spam radically.

Except for spam from crazy rich spammers. But I don't think there's too many of them out there.

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Sir, is this a new project?

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I don't often agree with your optimism when it comes to Steemit, but as someone who isn't active on Steemit anymore - and is therefore objective - I agree with you that the idea behind the RC was not only a good one, but also necessary.

Bandwidth can't be free.

As someone who used to work in the field, this reminds of mobile phone subscriptions.

It'd be stupid and a waste of resources to make a single subscription model where everybody has unlimited data when some people use 100 gb a month, whereas some people only use 0,5.

It makes more sense for the person who only needs a minimal amount of data to get a cheaper deal that caters to his needs, while the person hogging all the data has to pay more since he drains more.

I think this is a pretty cut and dry, simple to understand idea.

I don't understand everybody's problem with this all of a sudden.

Different perspective :) Explaining Blockchain working mechanism with real life example.

I'm sure we can come up with all sorts of analogies. This is especially true with regard to things that benefits our clique at the expense of others. Stuff like this is called retrospective justification.

Let me provide a business example that is cogent rather than an analogy that is fallacious.

Facebook is also a blogging site. It also has costs that relate to every new blogger. These also must be paid for. Initially they were paid for by the investors in the platform. Bloggers can choose to invest in the platform however 99.99999% don't. This initial investment wasn't magicked up out of nowhere and handed out to a privileged few. They figured out ways to monetize they platform which didn't involve asking the bloggers to pay.

Or in this analogy's terms some people were given free gasoline, some had it heavily subsidised, some paid full price and with HF20 some were expected to buy gasoline not only for themselves but for the people who had snaffled up all the goodies. If you want this to survive get your thinking heads together and figure out a way to monetise the platform. Don't expend new accounts to buy in and prop you up like a giant pyramidal autarky. They will cash in and move to somewhere that offers them the same terms that you were offered.  I hear you saying "They will be back when the price goes up. This has happened before". That might have been true but there was no competition then. In investment terms "Past performance is not an indicator of the future".

Bitcoin has lost track that it is meant to be a currency not an investment brand. It seems that Steemit has lost track that it meant to be a blogging platform not a cozy club of oligarchs who demand privilege.

I'm fully aware that some of you will take a pop at me and be rather indignant in your self-perceived righteousness but be aware that I have sweet FA RC and will not be wasting it on people with their fingers in their ears saying "lalalalala".