Over at the Minnow Support Project, we're getting bombarded with users complaining about the bandwidth problems. Turns out it's not just a UI issue, as @personz figured out.
Many users are unable to use their accounts without additional SP injected. They're terrified it's turning into a "pay to post" system.
A simple fix can be applied by the top 20 witnesses, which is increasing your block size to 131072. This will provide double the bandwidth, and help out the minnows affected by the bandwidth issues.
In the mean time, check out @neoxian's post. He's giving away SP to those with <10 SP to help resolve the bandwidth issue for new users.
I have been using 131k block size for over a month now, as a few others have too. See @timcliff's post for more details.
update_witness "yourname" "your-witness-post" "SIGNINGPUBLICKKEY" {"account_creation_fee":"0.020 STEEM","maximum_block_size":131072,"sbd_interest_rate":300} true
I highly recommend witnesses start to use the 131k block size ASAP, to help alleviate the bandwidth issues.
In other news: SBD and STEEM prices are both falling. I recommend adding a BIAS on your feed to help SBD recover to $1 through arbitrage of the internal 3-day market. I am currently using 10% BIAS, some witnesses are using higher such as @abit.
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