But according to Iker there are 2 main reasons: “It may be the simplest technically way to deploy it but:

a) I can feel it would be controversial and not easy to get the necessary consensus in the community, as someone may say that is a different fork/new blockchain

b) the instability of the first moments when there are not enough votes casted in the network would be too dangerous for such a mature project as Lisk, specially for exchanges and third party tools.“

Some questions from ultrafresh came up: “Would it be more accurate to say that a chance of forging is based equally between total vote weight and the minimum locked tokens? For example, if you have a 10,000 vote weight, but only 500 self votes, then you would actaully only forge at a rate of having a 5,000 vote weight?”

“I think it is correct to see it that way. Delegates should always have in mind the ratio between their self-votes and the votes from other accounts. With that, they will try to maximize the chances of forging by playing with this ratio and if every delegate behaves in this rational way, a equilibrium should be reached…but of course this is much more complex in real life, it is going to be very interesting to witness” answered Iker.