Dan shared an important and often under-represented view in the Hive ecosystem: the perspective of an investor.
Do you remember this day from SteemFest2 in 2017?
When you sat next to three mid-range investors? And now you've thrown dozens of such nanzo-scoops, Kevin-wongs and guys like me from Korea just off the chain. And then you think there's only one of them investing in a chain that has a blacklist? The Blacklist is == The new White paper? Wtf? Grow up!
Interesting choice of personalities. All of them understand DPoS, PoB, and the system and philosophy they invested in. Aka the old whitepaper.
Nobody was thrown off any chain, they just didn't receive a stake to earn from or vote with here. Because their voting on steem forced us to create hive in the first place. Without them, this wouldn't have happened.
If the people who voted for centralization followed to hive, I would have powered down here too and joined another chain where they don't. Luckily, those who really worked on the fork agree with me. Anyone who doesn't is free to spin up their own fork, or stay on steem.
Are we off-chain right now? Man, I'm confused
There is no free lunch.
There never was a free lunch, and there will never be a free lunch. The Hive/STEEM ecosystem needs currently "investors"/"speculators" who buy the dumped STEEM or HIVEs.
If you blacklist a lot of these guys, than you will have less buy support and a lot of the guys will think twice if they will ever buy one of these tokens. So a blacklist sounds like a loose-loose, or?
Doesn't explain how anyone was thrown off-chain when you're here writing on the chain. But hey, call it semantics
If your wallet was zeroed, then you were thrown out of the chain.