To cut the long story short, few days after Tron's (Justin Sun) acquisition of Steemit, majority of the Top 20 Witnesses came up to a consensus (Soft fork 2.22) that prevents all known Steemit accounts from voting, delegating, and or withdrawing any of the staked steem. Although the consensus is reversible, Justin Sun's side seems threatened by it and so they made a move that brought the community / witnesses in complete rage.
Tron (Justin Sun) worked with major exchanges to powered-up about 100M steem to vote out the existing Top 20 witnesses while voting in new 20 witnesses that are under Tron's control.
In the same manner, services relating to automation were also put into hault by their owners to show their protest against Tron's "take-over" of the Top 20 witness spots.
At this moment, the only frontends that are still working (that I've tested myself) is Steemit, Steemit Wallet (www.steemitwallet.com), & Steempeak. All other services that I'm using prior to Tron's take-over were all out of service or are not functioning well.
Majority of the Top Witnesses were also self-disabled to show their protest against this event.
This happened prior to the Steemit-Tron-Witnesses Town hall take place.
Which is really unfortunate since the scheduled Town Hall meeting is supposed to be a way for all parties to communicate and lay out their plans for the betterment of Steem.
With all of the hostility & raged that were displayed by each side, do you think this Town Hall meeting will have a productive outcome?
Or will it end up to a debate?
At this point, anything is possible.
So, buckle up and be ready for the worst.
