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QUESTION: After several years why hasn't EOS taken off like a rocket ship?

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I've been aware of EOS since before it was released. I suspect most people here (especially if they used steem or bitshares) have been. It's promise has always seemed huge.

As I am reading about new cryptos and what they are working toward I have often found myself thinking...

Doesn't EOS already do that?

They will push something like Cardano with a 20 second block speed when EOS has a 0.5 second block speed. In EOS if you can't maintain a 3 second block speed you get kicked out of the consensus mechanism as a verifier.

I'll read new cryptos promising speed.

Yet they don't propose a speed as fast as EOS already has.

They'll say "soon we'll have smart contracts".

EOS has had that since the beginning.

"Smart contracts will be written in language X" which might be some somewhat used language or a language they are pushing just for their contracts.

EOS smart contracts are written in C++ which is the same language you use to code the back end as well. It is a highly known language. No need for many people to go learn yet another language.

With things like this...

Why hasn't it been adopted heavily?

Then I'll see new cryptos (often running ERC-20 or other) that act as bridges between other cryptos and that is their selling point.

EOS has been able to do that and has spoken about it for years.

I often make the VHS versus BETAMAX comparison with me thinking of EOS as BETAMAX. Even though betamax was superior to VHS. VHS won out. That was largely due to Betamax being proprietary and limiting production to their own company and VHS was licensed out to a ton of companies to make products. Is some similar bad management occurring with EOS? I would like to know.

Is some of my information inaccurate? I'd like to know that as well.


Today

Today I came up with one reason things like Cardano might be pushed as great when it's stats and plans don't currently stack well when compared to EOS, even when they add smart contracts.

For me it was in looking at the consensus mechanisms.

EOS has 20 node verifiers randomly chosen per time slice, and 1 by votes. To remain in the selection pool you must reliably process blocks within 3 seconds minimum. If your node cannot it is removed from the pool. It is delegated proof of stake. Similar to how HIVE and STEEM run. This is not surprising since Dan Larimer designed both STEEM and EOS.

Cardano is using something called Ouroboros for it's consensus mechanism. From what I read only nodes that are 2% staked in Cardano will be considered for verifying the blocks. The higher the stake you have the more likely you will be chosen. It also mentioned length of time as a verifier is a factor.


Could it be as simple as which crypto could potentially be leveraged for control purposes more easily?

If your verifiers are being chosen randomly wouldn't that be more difficult to control short of you having a ton of nodes than simply buying a large stake?

Could this be the reason?

I know Dan Larimer has been pushing to try to provide truly free market ideas, and make something that could provide a society that it would be very difficult for people to gain control over other people through the system. He has learned from the flaws in each experiment. Yet those flaws also often involved witnessing how people would find ways to game the system to give themselves power and control. If you keep making with each experiment this more difficult to do might that be a reason those who seek power would push lesser tech to the forefront rather than the superior tech?

I don't know the answers.

Thus, I made this post.


EDIT: I'm going to add some value add content to this post. I am looking into things and I'll share some of the links I come across in case they are of any interest to the rest of you.

How to create an EOS dapp (simple guide) - Jun 26th, 2018 - by Daniel Liebeskind via Medium.

A Beginner’s Complete Guide To EOS - By Basil Kimathi - via UseTheBitcoin.com