Literally for the last four days, since the great NOTHING arrived the whole active steem community seems to have jumped in and protected our home. Don’t get it mistaken for all the flaws, downvotes, aggressive circle jerks and inner circles at the heart of the chain is a beating heart of governance needs, we want our servers to be fast and our interactions low latency.
Now that Justin Sun and Tron have laid out their witness death eater style plan of sucking the life and soul out of the top twenty consensus witnesses it’s caused a bigger discussion on twitter (and boy oh boy were those stealth steem users ready to pounce and engage now!) about exchanges colluding together to ‘attack’ the so called ‘hackers’
I’m interested to see how this was framed together, make it look like hackers, pump in money, take control, put in the fork, remove the funds, crash the price of steem down to $0.05/07 and buy up the chaff of ‘lack of market fit’ dapps that will then need an out (could be one thing they are thinking)
What do we need to do actively on a daily basis to get across to this ‘businessman’ that they are not just buying an asset but trying to redesign the home while people are still sleeping in their beds?
The majority of tweets and discord things i hear are quite angry, with venom and insulting — not great grounds for discussion and to come together to bolster each other’s chances of a good result.
But then, is that valid, i mean so far all i can see about tron is that they have a top 10 of gambling dapps and they are not social at all, maybe I’m missing something, maybe they have a discord somewhere with thousands of people in but i certainly don’t see that — too me, this is just another play to add our uniqueness to tronscan to pump the numbers and make all our lovely TX records data add to their upwards graph.
So why? Is that to unlock more investor money? Is the aim to eat up as many failing crypto projects as possible (I don’t believe steem was failing just mismanagement) and then flip into BTC or something else? — i can’t help feeling that tron feels like some kind of advanced money laundering system.
How is Justin Sun worth $200m, where did that money come from? What businesses did he have before and is this just what someone with that much money does? It’s just a power play or is this a businessman looking to buy/invest in a community — ‘buying’ community never works — unless of course you gave us all a handful of steem and tasks / chores to do? ;)
Two things that keep on coming up for me thou is the wording of ‘reversal’ in the soft fork, it kinda felt like it was a forced bartering chip from the current governance rather than a defence from a threat to the chains governance — which leads me to another issue do governance witnesses have a ‘conflict of interests’ when it comes to their own steem businesses and securing the chain — but then, most of these people have invested a lot into steem power to power their businesses in the first place.
Governance of the chain, securing the chain is paramount. I’ve been here for a lot of the hardforks and they were very planned, very laid out, maybe not as bug tested as we would have all liked but we just don’t have the head count often times to do that because of the advanced code that block chains are based around — the community has to trust in the very smart people that frequent this chain, it certainly feels very split in where we are heading atm.
To be fair the ninja-mine and a massive investor coming in was always going to be a problem for the steem blockchain because it rattles the very fabric of the ‘order of things’ in the chain, all those with more VESTed interest that the next steemian are always going to want to cosy up to someone with bigger stake — to bring them up to speed or to maybe find support or partnering.
With thirteen weeks of ‘power down’ locked and loaded for the exchange funds that caused this great governance shuffle of the top twenty and the sock puppet witnesses all running on below par hardware with lack of price updates i do wonder where this leaves the chains very core — do people trust to post as they did before, has it caused issues within their communities, how do we move past recent events and formulate a community wide action plan?
This could be the greatest time block that steemians have ever had on the chain if we play it right — forget the price, forget the big investor, what would steem look to the outside crypto world if we have held strong for months on end to protect our home, built a veritable moat of factual information about the platform, what the legacy of this home is worth and why it’s worth saving — the potential for that is unprecedented as much as the exchanges initially doing what they did.
We have the capacity. We just need to mobilise into divisions of maybe 10/15 people who have a clear outcome — be it media, video, editing, fact finding, storytelling, governance, gaming, potentially earnings and dapp projections. I’ve got a bunch of ideas of how this could work, all i need is to be enabled to help. ..
Thanks and Steem On
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