Admittedly I don’t know much of the “backroom” culture... but the witness fear kinda baffles me. Steemit Inc. would have to come in and very visibly put their fingers on the scales to counter current witnesses and officially vote in their own puppets. If that were to happen I know I’d turn from Steemit supporter to “fork them out” in a heartbeat as would many others. I hope that as the new DAC style funding and alliances come along the witnesses will feel more free to do the job for which they were elected, running the blockchain!
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Freedom account nearly solely controls the witness votes.
"They Say" they don't own it.
No one we know owns it. It has nearly perfect control that way.
I don't know who owns it either, but honestly I would rather they vote than pretend they don't.
I’d love to see momentum pick up for the concept of 1 Steem = 1 witness vote. With 300,000 Steem you can give 10,000 votes to 30 different witnesses or 300,000 votes to one... but not 300,000 votes to 30! Of course we’d be reliant on current witnesses to make their own positions more democratic.
Even without, I’m heartened by the recent example of a witness like aggroed bucking the need for a Freedom vote to be top 20. It shows it’s not an insurmountable obstacle.
Agree! that was nice.