It wasn't an airdrop. It's a split fork. Therefore, no one is "giving" anyone anything.
I won't get too technical on that part, but given it was a 1 to 1 ratio for 1 SP = 1 HP I can concede that point. Most people would say they were air dropped coins from a split so that's the way I was phrasing it.
Wasn't a blockchain protocol supposed to be censorship free? Excluding those that only voted (no matter their personal reasons) is a kind of censorship, because you are removing their access because your disagree with their opinion.
Therefore, this move goes against a basic blockchain philosophical fundament.
(Steemit Inc. stake should be removed because it was was caused the attack.)
Excluding people from having staked power in a blockchain fork isn't censorship. Those people who didn't get the 1 to 1 ratio of SP to HP still have accounts, can still power those accounts up, can perform functions with the default 3 HP they have delegated to them. Nobody removed their access to anything. There is no censorship there.
Censorship is what Steemit INC is doing by censoring posts from people who are even remotely critical of them(I myself have multiple posts censored from appearing on Steemit for speaking out against Justin Sun)
Theft is also what Steemit INC and all witnesses are doing when they vote for a fork to steal cryptocurrency from users. The law of the land clearly defines cryptocurrency as Property or Money in almost every country. Taking away someones property/money/cryptocurrency without their consent IS THEFT.
Steemit INCs stake was ill gotten and done via deception in the very beginning when almost nobody knew how to mine Steem. They took advantage of a loophole by avoiding doing an ICO and instead mined in almost complete secrecy. They were successful in skirting laws of the land. They started off in a legally ambiguous manner, and when it was discovered they did that people were upset and rightly so. The ill gotten mined power should have lost its voting rights in my opinion, and if it was sold whoever bought it would also have no voting rights. It could still be used for other purposes like creating accounts and should have been used for positive building.
I don't think this have anything related to anyone's hardwork...
It's about fundamental principles.
The moment you deny other people access to a blockchain because you don't agree with their opinion and because they "could" (a big could) attack the blockchain, isn't the real problem on the blockchain code?
The entire Steem chain is the hardwork of all the witnesses + Steemit employees.... All of which the Steemit employees who wrote the code for Steem have almost all quit and joined Hive. So you are dead wrong there.
Nobody was denied access to the chain as stated above, users who did not get HP when the fork happened have full access to everything.
They were not "denied HP" due to their opinion, it was due to how they voted which is a specific criteria. Their voting to centralize is a problem and we don't want that in this community. A big attack did happen from those who voted for Justin Sun. The problem is psychopath controllers like Justin Sun and governments and dictators, the blockchain is an attempt to make these types of psychopaths have less power over individuals.
So, the price is more important than the integrity and reliability of the blockchain?
Sure, price can affect the short-term view of a blockchain, but aren't we supposed to be in this for the long-term?
I never said the price is more important than the integrity and reliability of the blockchain. You did though. I did however mention it is a factor that was thought of.
Wich put the decisionat the hands of very few people (those with the bigger stakes). What if they don't like the color of that person hair? Is it fair?
A great example of how bad this was is the case of @steemchiller. He created one of the best Steem wallet/explorer, and he was excluded from hive because half of his votes were to Justin Sun because he wanted to stand neutral expecting things to work out between both parties.
Now, imagine how many potential developers/content creators/community leaders hive lost because of this "petty revenge" decision.
I haven't seen any evidence of someone being denied HP via the proposal system because someone didn't like their hair. Maybe you have that evidence and you can show it?
Steemchiller helped an authoritarian take over the Steem chain. People tried to negotiate with Hitler and Stalin and Mao too, it doesn't work. JS is corrupt and all of his previous dealings with other crypto show time and time again he scams everyone he can.
Nothing was petty revenge.
RE: How to be a 2-faced hypocrite in 3 easy steps. Also, will Bittrex do the right thing or cave?