RE: The Hive blockchain: A rescue buoy or a missed opportunity?
You may have mis-read the part about the air drop, the air drop is not going to apply to the steemit.inc accounts, no seemit held ninja stake is going to be mirrored. Accounts that back justin sun also will not be air dropped. There are a lot of accounts that will not be carried over from steemit/steem.
Also if you misseed it this post https://steempeak.com/steem/@blocktrades/why-i-won-t-be-compromising-with-justin-sun has a lot of info also, and the comments are very interesting especially some of the replies, of course there are a few negative nellies comments, but once again some good info.
And they are willing to talk to developers that want to help or have ideas and will email you back, I don't remember which of the two post that info was in but I think it was in a couple of comments on the post I linked. You might be able to put your engineer dev skills to work with them.
It' s not the accounts that make the ninja mining, it' s the stake itself. If we want crypto investors to take the fork serious as a ninja-mining free chain, blacklisting a few accounts from an airdrop isn' t going to do the trick. The ninja-mined funds themselves will need to never have existed, and the way this could be done in a fork would be by constructing a defensible replay strategy, picking a defensible monetary rebase block, and then doing a rebase and replay as proposed above.
And yes, this would mean the airdrop might turn out meager for some and overly rich for others, as replayed upvotes done with ninja mined stake, exchange bought funds that the exchange could never have owned if it wasn' t for ninja mined stake being sold first, etc, but the stake after a replay will truly be free of ninja mining influences. An absolute must if you want keep yourself from forking over the reputation of being a ninja-mined shitcoin from day one.