As Patrick Henry said in 1775:
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of the Blockchain! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
When there is such a blatant attack threatening the decentralization of the network, there can be no peace. Steem is notable primarily for its decentralization. If a single entity controls the network, as is currently the case, there is no purpose to Steem. The only chance of surviving is to rebel and regain community control.
Good to see you ready for this mission man ;)
Who is the "community"? The top 20 witnesses? The biggest stakeholders of the previous witnesses were just two accounts! The rest are peanuts! Steem is and never was decentralized! The witness voting system is aimed for centralization from the beginning until now!
BTW: who started the attack? I am not pro or contra JS! I am pro a conversation in mutual respect with the goal to find a solution, which is good for both sides. Hopefully the meeting on Friday is still taking place!
No the community are the pre-existing witnesses that have been contributing to the Steem ecosystem for years and have thousands of accounts voting for them.
Steem always had the potential to become centralized because of large pots of stake that shouldn't be voting but technically could still vote. These pots include exchange funds and the ninja-mined Steemit stake. Yesterday, we saw all of these pots become voting. They voted for changes that are against the will of the community, i.e. users. No one with a deep technical understanding of Steem that cares for the community will support Justin Sun at this point.
I get your point! No problem. I am not supporting JS, I would rather like to see a respectful discussion and not a shooting at each other! After all, he is the owner of Steemit and we have to deal with him! We certainly can agree on this!
Forking the chain to get rid of him would be the death of Steem in my opinion.
Agree.
I haven't heard of the meeting being cancelled, but after watching events unfold I'm less than convinced it was ever extended in sincerity to begin with. I believe Sun tossed a bone out there to distract us while he organized what we're seeing. I believe the soft fork only forced his hand to act more quickly than he had planned, but this was his plan all along.
I'm more offended by the actions of the exchanges justin thought he could buy into this block chain... But the fault was he bought pre mined steem... The community alkready wanted to opt out that steem... he got robbed not by us but the previous owner of that steem.
This action will be also the end of tron too because of the manipulation all trust in him and all future actions done by him is gone in one blow.
It's not an act of war but good redination of all the facts. Internet can make you but it can also break you.
Only top 20 witnesses can vote this must be changed also. But I think it's too late. It's the end of steem and tron and the exchanges involved... personally I think it's illegal I will file a complaint to all controlling regulators.