Yes that is my question.

It's good. It just means the network is more secure than ever before. It is harder and costlier to attack the chain.

Yep, I read that Ford is planning to dwarf what Tesla has been able to achieve. In steem's case, that's not good.

They sold $76 million worth of steem, steem that was ninja mined (for free) for the purpose of growing the steem ecosystem and building out steemit.com... you know that right?

Was hoping Ned was also in that category...

Must not have done a good enough job...

They won't be buying steem any time soon, if ever.

Thanks.

I hear you, though it is so tempting to buy at these levels.

That would certainly help.

Ugh. That's not what I want to hear.

Does that mean you guys have done everything you possibly can to get listed there? There was a rumor floated that they (Coinbase) wanted a listing fee that was refused to be paid?

What do you mean?

But if the value is in the blockchain itself, can't people just fork it or clone it and capture that value themselves?

Nah, nothing to do with bakkt. Is much more macro in nature. The trade war with China likely the driver. Money coming out of stocks and going into gold and bitcoin, even the dollar.

Selling less steem would be nice! :) Just kidding, well sort of. In all seriousness you guys seem to have gotten a lot done and things seemed to have changed for the better over the last couple months.

Thanks.

You may be getting your wish!

Yea, most of the coins seized have been auctioned off, at least from what I have seen.

Good point. The FBI mostly auctions off their bitcoins though... that is how Draper got all of his...