was against freezing Justin Sun's stake. I did support blocking his account from voting for witnesses because of the security risk it posed to the chain, but I did not believe it was right for witnesses to freeze anybody's assets. That is still my position today. I have always believed that the best solution was for the two parties to try and work things out, and if that was not possible, then to go their separate ways (i.e. fork).
I've been thinking about this for a while and I think you were correct. After all, the potential outcome would have been the same with/without the freeze, while the freeze opened Steem up for the "hostile attack".
Thanks. It is really hard to say how things would have / could have played out differently. There were a lot of moving parts, hehe. I still stand by my decision (even though it cost me a top witness spot). I do 100% get why everyone else voted the way they did though. The way everything played out worked out really well in the end, because there was a very clear "us vs. them" decision to make and there was a lot of publicity around what happened. I do think that helped ultimately make the Hive launch successful.