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WAS STEEMIT ALL JUST A CIA PSYOP?

EVENTUALLY I WAS SEEING SO MUCH DODGY SHIT GOING ON WITH STEEMIT IT BOGGLED MY MIND

Sadly things all went horribly wrong and my three year experiment in blockchain based social media lead to me think that the whole thing was a CIA psyop right from the start.

Some “conspiracy theorist” I turned out to be – I got suckered bigtime…

Never mind, I learned a lot, it really helped my blogging, I made some friends, and I even made some actual money for the first two years. But in order to fit into the scene I turned a blind eye to a bunch of stuff that was glaringly obvious really. Especially with the benefit of hindsight…

At the time of writing, Steemit is still a fully functioning website, but my own belief in it is over. I still keep an eye on it, but I’m not really into it anymore, and am mainly trying to work out what the scams are actually achieving.

For two years I was obsessed with Steemit, I had four accounts, did over 350 full length blog posts and many thousands of comments, had nearly 3000 followers, and earned thousands of dollars in payouts. But by late 2018 I could see that it was not what it seemed and we had been played like a fiddle.

This is all just guesswork and may prove to be wrong as the saga unfolds, but at the start of 2019 these were my speculations of what may be going on:

I strongly suspect Steemit was originally set up by the CIA, just like Fakebook was, and that Dan Larimer’s father Stan works for the CIA. And like the CIA, Steemit’s headquarters are in Langley Virginia.

Dan is most likely not really a tech genius but is just a mid level computer geek with all the usual geek mental development issues. Just like Suckerberg.

And Dan is really only a front man for a far more talented CIA development team, he was chosen because of his father and because he is geek enough to be credible in that role.

Ned was not really part of the initial set up. He was chosen to be a frontman for Steemit (his appearance was his main selling point) but ultimately he was always destined to be a public failure. Like Suckerberg, Ned is just a fall guy.

Steemit was never meant to become the next Fakebook, but was mainly set up to be a test site for a bunch of psyops.

Because there are several operatives playing some of the key accounts, sometimes they swap roles and are clearly not the same person.

Sometimes totally fake posts are actively promoted by biggest accounts. And the propaganda site Wikileaks is relentlessly promoted as a credible source. That is pretty common online, but on Steemit it is by bloggers purporting to be serious conspiracy researchers, while the whole Julian Assange/Wikileaks psyop is obvious bollocks to anyone who bothers to check.

The main accounts all have insider connections and are working various voting scams. For example, one obviously dodgy account known as “Haejin” (the wealthiest account on Steemit) constantly drains out reward pool money.

In the pre alpha days of Steemit the insiders set up a bunch of accounts. One of them was called “Bernie Sanders”. There are thousands of fake accounts on Steemit, but the Bernie Sanders account and its 200+ bots seems to dominate them all, and it has clearly shifted its underlying agenda several times – most notably from initially encouraging new users, to later trying to drive all real (non-bot) accounts off the platform. The “Bernie Sanders” account has also become ever more aggressive and constantly has fake arguments with other fake accounts over subjects such as vaccinations (one day it suddenly became militantly pro-vax).

“The head flaggot is a pig demon who walks erect, seizing violators and squeezing the shit out of them, which he grinds into their mouths and noses until they suffocate”