Having twenty real witnesses all representing their own personal interests in the top twenty meant the chain was 'decentralized' and as secure as could be. The blockchain would continue to run flawlessly if one of those members wanted to quit or went loony in the head then decided to rob us blind with malicious code and an evil thought or two.

Having twenty bogus accounts controlled by one entity in the top twenty means the blockchain has a single point of failure and is no longer secure. I didn't need to be an armchair politician to know a centralized chain is absurd.

After 4 years of the STEEM social blockchain experiment, a theoretical limitation of the DPOS protocol has turned into a sucesfull attack.

A fork of STEEM blockchain escaping from Justin Sun wont avoid future attacks from other malevolent actors.

Im in my opinion a NEWSTEEM should run on an evolved protocol, that I defined as REDPOS