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Convince him that... because he was ready to do it.

He was ready before having literally any engagement with the community. Like I said, I'm guessing the concept of a token swap was to hype up the Tron bois on his Twitter.

Then he met the Steem lads... and we bullied him out of it lol (┛ಠДಠ)┛彡┻━┻