Steem: It Was Nice While It Lasted

in #steem4 years ago (edited)


Well folks, it finally happened. Steem was attacked, and the attackers won. If you didn't already know, the Tron Foundation, led by Justin Sun, committed a hostile take-over of the Steem blockchain, with the help of 3 exchanges: Binance, Huobi, and Poloniex. You can read my play-by-play of how it started here.

As a result, thanks to the wonders of open-source, the Steem community simply walked away, via a Hard Fork. I can't actually type out the name of our new chain here, because Steemit Inc. has begun censoring any content referring to their crimes, even adding this to their TOS:

14.1.7. [You agree that you will not...] Use our services to promote third-party platforms or to promote each other without our written permission.


Censorship

Steemit.com has taken to censoring all posts that speak ill of Supreme Leader Justin, talk about his fraudulent & criminal activities, or even that are simply promoting our community's move to a new, more decentralized platform. As one example, look at @Truthforce's front page on Steemit vs Steempeak.


Losing the Ninja-Mine

If you weren't aware, the Steem blockchain has had a pretty big blemish ever since the beginning, thanks to the way Dan & Ned launched. This blemish is referred to as the "Ninja Mine," and it not only showed a disturbing lack honesty at StInc., it also left the blockchain under the effective control of one entity for the next 4 years. Even though Steem's inflation is distributed across the ecosystem, leading to further and further decentralization, even after 4 years, the StInc ninja mine allowed one entity to overthrow our entire governance system.

Now, our new blockchain, while still certainly far from perfect (stake-weighted voting just means the rich win), it is a big step in the right direction. Check out this comparison of the market-share, pre- and post-fork, created by @arcange:


I'm No Longer Steeming

If you look back through my blog now, you will see that I've removed all my content from Steem. Now, technically it's all still there in those original transactions, but I've edited the posts (with the help of SteemPruner), and so every front-end simply shows a link to my new blog.

I do not consent to my content being used by the CCP, or any of their puppets like Justin & Tron. Hope to see you on the other side!


Rinse & Repeat

This article will be re-posting from my account daily for the foreseeable future, in hopes of helping people find their way out of the black hole that Steem has become.



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The hostile takeover happened more than three years ago by the ninja miners and they have been running it into the ground ever since.

I sincerely doubt that they learned anything through their mistakes and you can expect Hive to go through a growth spurt and the go the same way as Steem.

The heard is always running in the wrong direction

cheers from @cryptobrewmaster!

We fully support the Hive migration and standing against the Justin Sun regime!

Together we strong!

Hive on! And see you on Hive -

https://peakd.com/@cryptobrewmaster

Sign up to ur discord channel to get the latest news from the game devs!

https://discord.gg/xrhD7Fj

We also cast you a small 10% upvote to make you smile a bit)

good background info, and thanks for the Steempruner link

FUCK @justinccp, and see you over on The Better Place

Thanks for the mention :)

I am in the VIP club now for censorship!

Yup, you're censorship famous :-P

Or you reposting just for rewards maybe?

Yup, just wanna stack more of those soon-to-be-sub-penny STEEMs haha!

If I was just "reposting for rewards," obviously I would be reposting 10x per day, probably to a community so folks wouldn't see it, and giving them all 100% upvotes from @TribeSteemUp.

Also, I would most likely be doing so from a sock-puppet account (like Supreme Leader Sun), and would be setting my rewards to 100% liquid...