Is it the Year of the Trojan Horse?
Or is this simply the consequence of complacent Steemians/devs sitting on their hands, aside from hyping legacy work, pumping, and farming from the pool?
Who knows, but it's nice to see everyone uniting, even if it may be too late.
Is the writing on the wall? If not, do we need to endure FUD and risk of epic proportions for greener pastures?
How much faith do we need?
Do we need to hang on to prove we're good Steemians?
With a modest 7,090 SP, I'm not sure it's a good idea for me to hold a bag right now.
I've worked way too hard to build my SP and follower base organically from nothing. I don't want it to go to waste if this acquisition causes Steem to go extinct.
A Tron-Steem replacement token doesn't have any appeal at this time. Today's AMA and the laptop battery ruse showed me what I needed to see from our new leadership. If there is a Steem>Tron transition, hopefully my reputation and friends carry over to rebuild with for fun.
Alternatively, a Steem fork also doesn't appeal as it feels like it'd be too little too late. I also feel that key Steemians had years to unite, collaborate, and exhibit a sense of urgency to grow the chain and/or more applications. With chaos and STINC bought out, I just don't see things getting better on the Steem side. People are stranded and there will be far less resources. Some large accounts that could help and friends I appreciate (half the reason I'm here) are also currently powering down.
Fortunately, a slow power down cycle will give me time and opportunity to get more insight. I simply don't want years of effort to be for nothing on the fiscal side outside of shipping liquid rewards out from time to time. I honestly prefer to salvage what I can into extra BTC or ETH since these tokens will hopefully rise to let me buy back in with better leverage in the future once we know more.
I hope some will feel comfortable sharing what they're feeling about their SP holdings.
It's important to be able to support others with votes, but it could be a race to zero, regardless of how much Steem we earn in the near term.
Sorry, I'm just not that into Tron.
P.S. I've never hit the power down button before and never thought I would. This is weird, so I'll sleep on it. Yes, I'm that emotionally attached to this blockchain.
@steemmatt