I don't believe that we need a new chain to achieve these goals. It would just run it to all the problems of starting a new chain. You risk being stupid: pre-mines, pre-sales, over the counter sales, ninja-mined assets by founders and a company that can easily be brought to heel by any nation.

You need adoption and value flowing in the system. Which we are working on building here. Hive is the right chain for political divides. As they can all live on the Hive blockchain just fine. They just spin up their own frontend, and they are free to block and censor whomever their community wishes. All without preventing those blocked from posting.

If Justin Sun sells Steem to Elon Musk. I'll laugh.

Hive != Steem
(Hive is not equal to Steem)

Because we have made so many technical advances on Hive. Steem is basically a joke in comparison. Also, almost all the value on Steem has been drained out of it. First, with the exit of many, many communities and apps changing to Hive. Second, they have been playing games with the token value. He is not about to admit to being a failure. Because of this, J. Sun is going to get pennies on the dollar, if that. He would have to be willing to admit defeat, and that's never going to happen.

As to making the Hive look like the dark web, maybe they could. We are the Dark Horse and will be until the world figures out they need us.

RUN, DARK HORSE, RUN.