another token :p ... hahah well, the problem with planet Crypton is that its somewhat of a wet dream for smalltime marketeers who play on the hapless yea ... that certainly gives a lot of bad name, also the big-timers like vitalsky , larrimer, that block.one guy and im well awere of the reputation they scribe to Justin Tron , ... Sun ...
on the other hand : i have no idea who "mister Bitcoin" would be (other than Satoshi Nakamoto himself) and i have also no idea who the great leader of litecoin is for that matter so somewhere on Crypton the concept of de-centralization hasn't been completely raped (like if you say here de-centralized it means 20 people deciding over everyone with literally NO control on where they get the votes from and also no expiry date on witness votes (i betcha fiver most of the votes they got they might still have from accounts that have LONG since quit ... a wave when it dropped under six, a ve when it went under five, a big wave when it went under $3 to $2 and then an aftershock after the hardfork-to-save-the-whale which left little postsers with barely anything of voteworth (by then steem already came from $7 dollar to $0.20 dollarcents

but ALL the votes cast from the start on ANY accoutn that didnt withdraw them before those people left this circus (i can say about 80 to 90 % of who i had in my voters - wrote myself some scripts - are stale, or gone but i dont know if their witness votes are so that would be like my dead grandma's last vote counting for the current government formation in hellgium here)

absurd ...

surreal even

i have to admit i believed the frontpage

for about a week, then i ran into a pack of hyenas hiding behind steemcleaners ...

groupies more like , who enjoy the protection racket the cartel kept

and my illusion was over

but im not much of a quitter and mostly i had nothing better to do, then i found out about the technnical side and its really a piece of work, all that stuff keeps it interesting but the circus ?

fairy tales for the believers ... i know some pockets here and there 'micro-communities' if you like who were just as visible before as the current flip in the UI would make them now but its mostly what i call vote-suckers

people who would say anything or actually search for the best paid topics before they start writing ...

mostly heh ... a lot of people mistake the accounts young 'age' and starter-sp, they just assume you're new here ...

i dare say i havent really followed up yet but since Justin Sun entered what was stale suddenly become a little entertaining again haha

in your case you can't lie, you dont get 77 rep overnight lol

ive seen you around, its a really really small world if you look around a little but most people stick to their safe zone

its really easy to attract downvote trolls after all and there's no fun in that

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i forgot to mention one who i consider a big player : Hyperledger from/by the Linux foundation, ... not know in HODL-land as they're probably the only ones who didnt sell a token or sell a token first on the promise of tomorrow but actually built/are building an open-type free-for-all ledger (block - chain , if you know anything about the technicalities the shortest version would be : one block only fits exactly between two other specific blocks , hence the name block - chain its a chain of blocks where , if you fiddle only ONE the chain breaks, which is what makes it immutable - in theory , as long as you have enoug parallel nodes, its really something close to dark magic by satoshi and a few cypherpunks but you could also say its a bit of a glorified torrent (lol im gonna get the inquisition for that))

what was i ? o yea ... looking at the backing hyperledger has :

(Blockchain, ConsenSys, Digital Asset, R3, Onchain), well-known technology platform companies (Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, NTT DATA, Red Hat, VMware), financial services firms (ABN AMRO, ANZ Bank, BNY Mellon, CLS Group, CME Group, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Deutsche Börse Group, J.P. Morgan, State Street, SWIFT, Wells Fargo, Sberbank), business software companies like SAP, academic institutions (Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Blockchain at Columbia, UCLA Blockchain Lab), systems integrators and others (Accenture, Calastone, Wipro, Credits, Guardtime, IntellectEU, Nxt Foundation, Symbiont, Smart Block Laboratory)

id say they're set for a while and its most likely any big business will take THEM if they dont design their own IF
(big IF they see use for it)

what i noticed there is that somehow vitalsky (-ik , i know) has succeeded in selling parts of his mastodont to it but since we're talking the conglomerate of un-earthly above-the-clouds ultrageeks who actually understand and develop linux i have no doubt they know what they're doing, so maybe steem is not there for the standard reasons : (steemit always sucked monkey arse at selling itself and the witnesses actually never WANTED it to go out in the big world, which we are seeing right now, or were last week i didnt update myself yet) OR ... or else the ultra-geeks for some reason find ethereum-chain more interesting than ultra-fast transactionfree (fee-free ...)

i don't know , those people are above my braingrade, like Linus himself

whew

i was gonna get through the answers but i guess the rest get's a raincheck until next week-end

toodles