Yes that is ridiculous and out of control. I am curious to see what Sun has in mind, I'll have to check on results there was supposed to be a witness meeting with his secretary this afternoon. His guy Rob was pretty interesting to hear listen to, so hopefully that amounts to something worthwhile. There are a lot of people showing their ass right now posting racist messages and all kinds of foul stuff about Sun on twitter, etc. This community is acting embarrassingly with some bad apples really getting carried away. To be honest it's about keeping power, and your list or people I respect looks a lot like mine, minus just a few more that I would add. The problem with this place is that the programmer/coder mentality of economics is absolutely disastrous. These people are functionally illiterate when it comes to reacting or preparing for human nature. Stellar at coming up with a great idea, steemit is revolutionary for sure. The problem is the community is also handicapped by the "decentralized centralized planners," that really have no concept of developing a sustainable community. Check out newbie participation for verification on that--we are missing almost two years of any significant growth of new people on the platform with people leaving in droves. You can blame Ned, and yes that is very easy. But last I checked we cannot get past the circle of 20 now that all of the sudden care about the community. The community was decimated over the past few years and until someone took some power away (I do admit in a really shady way-but he will regain the power by some other means-the entire cap of steemit is a rounding error for Tron's money available).
well written. Thank you for the intuition and current situation analysis.
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No one said it better!!! I am with @davemccoy on this one too.
I see lots of posts about how Justin tried to overthrow steem governance, and how he called witnesses hackers. Honestly, it sickens me that we have resorted to putting the cart in front of the horse.
Those statements would have never been issued, and the exchanges would have never had to step in if a few centralized people didn't move to freeze Tron's stake. The way I see it, that was the only way Justin could do something about it.
We claim that we did what we did to protect the chain, to facilitate negotiations. But it's clear this is an act to hold onto power in whatever way they can. Imagine if this happened to a wealthy investor who didn't have friends in Binance or Huobi, then it wouldn't have been a negotiation at all. He'd have been forced to accept the terms of the witnesses because his stake was held ransom.
By every definition, that's not a negotiation.
That's blackmail.
We really shouldn't be playing the victim on this one. It's kinda pathetic considering our witnesses started this whole thing. I do not think enough time and effort was given towards negotiating with the new leaders of steemit inc about their previous agreements on governance and stake usage.
Again, in complete agreement. Its amazing how many level headed people don't see the points you made.
Particularly this:
And I used the term "extortion" when describing it, but we also see that point exactly the same.
Nice to see some clear thinking @block.kids! You're a breath of fresh air :)
very well said @cryptkeeper17 :)