RE: Justin Sun and The Steem Honey Badger
I agree completely with your sentiments here. Long time no see BTW =)
I disagree with trifling details, but will not discuss them further to avoid fostering division.
The corruption of exchanges is a core issue revealed by this fiasco. Folks with assets should consider with utmost diligence how safu their assets are when exposed to exchanges. Regardless of Sun and Tron, in the wider consideration of what Steem has suffered to the crypto community is that decentralization is utterly integral to the security of our assets, and legacy mechanisms are endemically incapable of being trusted.
This failure of institutions to merit trust is the entire reason crypto exists. Folks that ignore this principle and rely on those institutions to transmit, exchange, and secure their assets deserve what they get. The use of their customers money to derange the security and governance of Steem absolutely proves the truth of the aphorism 'your keys, your crypto.'
Centralized institutions being involved in cryptocurrency transactions completely voids every principle that underlies cryptocurrency. Without dexes, crypto is just veiled fiat, subject to every ill of fractional reserve banking, corrupt government, and armed thugs.
Thanks!
i guess i should explain my absence,,,,, i felt that steem was dying....and I had high hopes for Voice, but now that i know what Voice is, well it doesn't appeal to me much. @juliakponsford is what brought me back, as i saw her art community. i've been wrong about a lot of stuff, but I try always to keep learning. maybe the justin sun fiasco is just what steem needed to awaken it from its long slumber. but i think it's safe to say, we now want him to leave.
Steem was dying. I was never much attracted to voice once I heard the intention to identify it's users. Once you make a list of folks, someone's going to use it to thin that herd IMHO.
I am glad you're back. You've always had a strong voice in this community, and I hope you'll raise it to rally our defense against Tron. You could well be right about this takeover. As you said, Steem was dying. When Sun tried to kill it off, we are all surprised at it's desperate struggle to live.
I am encouraged, because I have always seen something unique in Steem's proposition to combine free speech and crypto rewards for authors that potentiates free society in a way nothing else might. I want it to live, cast off it's financial shackles, a burden it bears for overlords, and set humanity free.
YEAH, with communities, as was supposed to be done long ago, i think it has a chance now. as long as overlords leave. I think it could really thrive, Ned has such horrible karma.....him being gone is gold.
Well, at least while @ned was here, he didn't take control of the witnesses, as Tron has. Frying pans and fires, and all that.
yeah i guess Ned is really a child, while Justin is idk a complete psychopath, or megalomaniac...