I think a lot of ideas surrounding blockchain are taken out of context. I do not support centralization. Are you sure Hive hasn't been centralized by several people?
Fringe decentralization is worse than fringe centralization. The former leads to false narratives and exploitation the latter is keen to how free markets operate. With transparency and accountability.
This idea of decentralization when decisions are based on a dPOS model is a false narrative. It is another centralized system weighted on first come first serve. Or a buy in.
Fringe centralization like the free markets overseen by legal bodies, encourage rules that let anyone compete with nepotic "decentralization".
The wordplay is going to destroy a lot of people. Decentralization does not mean there isn't a regulating body. It means there isn't a regulating body decided by a government...
Someone is always exerting central force. *cough cough blocktrades et al. Who also happen to own shares in Steemit Inc. Conflicts of interest don't you think?
Blocktrades is definitely not the only one developing on hive, and he is completely unable to influence the majority of votes with his stake, while Justin Sun is the only vote that matters on Steem.
I disagree with you about dPoS. Your arguments also means that all PoS are also not decentralized, which is also wrong.
Nothing is decentralized as much as bitcoin is. This we can agree on. And it is much easier for governments to apply pressure on a dPoS system, I agree with that too. Doesn't mean it's not decentralized though, the hive fork proved it.
Communities run software in the end, and people can choose to run nodes or not.
Blocktrades knew about Tron's interest in Steemit way before anyone. The announcement only caught non Bitshares witnesses by surprise. But of course Blocktrades crime syndicate offered a solution, stroking the passion of users.
Get familiar with RICO.
Those other developers are ♟and 🐑. They just follow the the promisor of enrichment. Your precious DHF is printing an absurd amount of HBD for the little value it never brought to the network. What % again?
Then you got guys like @edicted offering solutions not realizing his staked hive serves as a liquidity pool, for dumping witnesses that also dump HBD conversions.
Excuse me if I rather ride with the overtly instead of covertly centralized entity working on closing the loopholes. Excuse me if I don't want to be a retail sucker.
Like I said wordplay is going to destroy a lot of people when they refute the totality of the circumstances. dEcEnTRaLiZaTiON.
The worst thing I believe is that they want Hive to grow not because it'd be cool, but to continue at a larger scale. Don't worry they will toss you crumbs. Just engage!
I am sorry. Enjoy your APY that is not in USD but a depreciating shitcoin. Good news, they have faith they'll make things right you. Bad news, you might have more faith.
My point is this is taboo, nobody talks about it. It supercedes any technical blockchain jargon in my opinion. Those BTS guys are mighty dirty bastards.
I know that blocktrades knew because of his shares in Steemit, he even told me in a comment. It doesn't matter what the motives are, the truth is that hive is less reliant on blocktrades now that it was reliant on Steemit.
Steemit had a huge stake. And they were selling more dollars just for node costs than the DAO is printnig now. At least blocktrades made node run 8x cheaper.
Hive is simply better now, don't know why you get sucked into weird guesses. If you don't trust blocktrades then fine, I can see why. I personally think he really wants to implement on hive his vision of a huge reputation system, which I am not a fan of honestly.
But hive will be successful even without that.
Time will tell 🙃. The real issue I have with Hive is that the BTS camp and their enabling significant others have turn this to their personal BS. Which created an unscalable amish-like internet atmosphere.
Globalization is so much more. Some people don't like rim jobs, that isn't part of the process. Fortunately they overestimated their legitimacy, and are more than wrong on several fronts.
At the start of every great revolution they hang the "intellectuals" from the gallows. It will now take several years for this mess to get sorted out. Perhaps a double digit percentage on a young life. Those old bastards this is entanglement.
They made something minute to some, serious for them. Very big problem. I suggest they don't act so tough, and keep it on the backburner. It is very sad this is what some people have energy to do in retirement. Tragic.