A bunch of bugs this morning. by tcpolymath

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steem · @tcpolymath · Nov 22 '18 (edited)

$2.22

A bunch of bugs this morning.

We hit the SBD debt cap a few hours ago, and unsurprisingly it's led to a bunch of strange behaviors. Fortunately most of them seem to be bugs in the front ends, rather than the blockchain itself, and so far I haven't seen one that urgently needs to be fixed.

There is **one potential blockchain bug** that might actually be causing all the other ones: the chain appears to be reporting the debt ratio "magic number" as the feed price rather than getting it from the witness feed. I'm not 100% sure of this one yet, and I haven't been assiduously tracking it down because **it doesn't really matter**. The only side effect of this misreporting, if that is what's happening, is that the USD values given to post payouts will be incorrect. That would matter if we were paying out SBD, but even with the wrong feed price number we're so close to the cap that we're paying out a very minimal amount of SBD. Steem payouts are both multiplied and divided by the feed price so it cancels out.

Edit: **This is apparently expected behavior** as described in <a href="https://steemit.com/witness-category/@eonwarped/sbd-debt-ratio-10-behavior">this post</a> by @eonwarped. I don't think it was very well thought through, since the feed price is used for all sorts of things besides conversions, even if they're mostly cosmetic. But it's a design bug not a code bug.

It does matter to vote-selling services that use USD value in their calculations, like SmartMarket and MinnowBooster, but I haven't thought through in which direction yet. Their operators should be concerned but it won't make much difference to anyone else.

The other bugs that you're seeing are **front-end bugs**, not blockchain bugs, and they only really matter to the display. Steemit.com has gotten it into its head that each Steem is worth about 121 ~~gigawatts~~ million dollars, which is why everyone's account value is ridiculous. This is also why pending post payouts are zero; Steemit.com is grabbing the USD value of the post from the chain and then dividing by 121 million to get its estimate of payout. The payouts themselves happen on the chain side and appear to be happening correctly.

This all happened overnight before a national holiday in the US, probably the worst time for Steem to be cropping up bugs, and I'm just glad that none of them seem to be huge.

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@bitfiend · Nov 23 '18

I wanted to show my girlfriend that I was a billionaire now but she would believe me.  Upon finding out I am lying, she would never believe in the value of crypto again because I showed her a bug and she would be convinced that this is all make believe :P

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@crokkon · Sep 18 '22 (edited)

👍 lolicorn

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@tcpolymath · Nov 22 '18

Hm, I suppose you're right that it doesn't matter for SBD payout, since the system has sort of reconfigured what it thinks $1 is rather than what it thinks SBD should be.

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@miguelvargas · Nov 22 '18

For a musician trying to code, you and Eon are quite a rock stars hahaha. I'm focusing in front-end right now, so I'm so far to put my brain into learn php, phyton and linux. Beside that, I always enjoy alot reading post about it. Thanks for work so hard for the platform @tcpolymath.

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@nonsowrites · Nov 22 '18

I noticed something else. Pending payouts have no value in steem/sp

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Posted using [Partiko Android](https://steemit.com/@partiko-android)

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@tcpolymath · Nov 22 '18

>This is also why pending post payouts are zero; Steemit.com is grabbing the USD value of the post from the chain and then dividing by 121 million to get its estimate of payout. The payouts themselves happen on the chain side and appear to be happening correctly.

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@practicalthought · Nov 22 '18

SteemWorld is still showing the accurate value of posts, so their calculator must be using a different feed. Thanks for explaining why Steemit believes I am a multi-billionaire now, lol.

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@preparedwombat · Nov 22 '18

>each Steem is worth about 121 million dollars

Not a bug. The flux capacitor sent a message from the future back for us to see.

👍 bitfiend

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@bitfiend · Nov 23 '18

That is *exactly* what is happening.

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@steem-ua · Nov 23 '18

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@violetmed · Nov 22 '18

$0.26

Haha, I wish it were true! All of us Steemians could solve world hunger and some other problems!

👍 minnowpowerup, dregs, largeadultson, sergino

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