Sure, here are my opinions:
Everyone who preferred HIVE to STEEM is powering down -- and if they were late, this places everyone on the same page. So, At this point, if you didn't like STEEM and moved to HIVE, and didn't get your assets frozen or stolen -- you have 4 weeks to dump.
Major players -- Splinterlands, some curation groups, have had enough -- and are migrating over to HIVE, along with their userbases.
People who were on STEEM just to play Splinterlands, will now be on HIVE just to play splinterlands.
There is a decreasing level of bullshit toleration for fence sitters in this whole debate. -- So, we have a progression from:
[Governance Hijacking] -- But it's okay because I am just here for the $, and so I'll post here or there, wherever, this dude's a billionaire right, so maybe he will upvote me, and plus I'm already on Steem, and I like getting billionaire hand downs more than cryptoanarchist whatevers.
[Censorship] -- But it's okay because those fucking hivers deserve it they are racists, and it hurts the platform. [Number of people using this as an excuse is dropping.]
[Outright Theft from major investors] -- But it's okay because I'm bitter that HIVE did better than STEEM and I was excluded from the airdrop [Number of people reduced to those who were excluded from the airdrop].
[Centralization] - But it's okay because I lick one boot, instead of a community of boots. [Number of people left is basically tron fanbois and excluded airdrop people]
[Betray the Yes Men] -- So Once Legal trouble comes home to roost, there's going to be some issues where people who don't have as much to gain, and far more to lose, may just back out of the community -- they won't really be welcome on HIVE, and they won't really have a place on steem, and they don't want to get caught in an expensive legal battle.
[Opportunistic / Pragmatic / FUD] -- Prices will be monolithically held up by Tron -- and we have seen from his behavior that Sun doesn't have the sort of long term / community vision / coding skills / etc. to actually develop steem into something that has more value -- and he repeatedly said he was a business man, just looking to make a profit. -- So, I'd guess that if he steals from major investors, and basically loses trust within the cryptocurrency sphere -- he will basically only have himself, and his own companies, and the people who think they can benefit from his companies.
I would guess that he will betray those people last.
So, if anyone gets wind of this sort of condition of Steem, because the price starts to tank -- there could be a floor dropping out type scenario.
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Another major floor dropping out scenario would be if the stolen funds are returned to the original owners, or cashed out, or even held beyond the 4 week power down.
We also see that even Binance has announced a reduction in available trade pairs.
And we see Bittrex halting trades, and I believe Ionomy jumped on that as well. -- so that's like a handful of exchanges pulling out of STEEM.
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So we see -- like what is it good for now?
Best they can hope for is a korean / chinese nationalistic billionaire tron fanboy club -- where they have a champion and control all of the narrative for anyone prideful enough to believe it.
Which is basically like what Trump has in the USA.
But when trump started to betray his people, you are really just left with yes men and bigots, and sour resentful bitter bully trolls.
And when you think about the value proposition of those people.
-- it's pretty weak.
Investing in Steemit / TRON at this point, is basically like investing in the Korean / Chinese Zuckerberg -- with more blatant scandals and violations of trust within a significantly smaller ecosystem.
It's sort of like Justin Shat himself in a very small pool.
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I'm pulling all out and deleting all connections to that platform / chain, and just going to focus on building on HIVE.
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