True. I think you have to take into account the amount of interaction created to vote in the witnesses to create a stalemate. Thus nothing.
There is definitely not a single point of escalation in this. There are multiple and ignoring some points doesn't make the other points more severe. While 22.2 could be considered an escalation, it had a public stated goal and rationale of being temporary. There could have been some communication from Justin's side, but there wasn't.
- That failure to communicate was a point of escalation.
- The deceiving of exchanges to power up was an escalation.
- The takeover was an escalation.
- HF 22.5 was a de-escalation (with the caveat that it was done under a central authority).
- Calling the fork the work of hackers was escalation
- Demanding a change in powerdown time is escalation
This is all from after 22.2. There were other escalations beforehand including:
- failure to answer requests for communications
- Announcement that Steem will move to Tron
- The use of Genesis coins for Tron super Rep voting
All of those factor into the current situation.
It broke the trust of the Chain by individuals restricting account options on specific accounts, as opposed to a universal change, like no powering down for anyone.
It was an escalation by witnesses taking arbitrary decisions against specific accounts. There is EOS for that kind of shit.
It just pissed off a billionaire from my perspective.
Let that sink in.
Let what sink in, exactly?
That it's now possible to successfully go against people with a lot of money and have them beg for mercy instead of having the unlimited power they used to have.
LOL. Yes this should be very interesting to see how things play out.
We are in the position not just to have a fighting chance, but to be a significant force where historically this would have been "solved" with money before anyone would even know. The man with the money is not in need of empathy. This is justice in its purest, and we should deal with it apropriately. Not bending over as a community.
Heck, no. My point; which seems to have been missed; is that v. 22.2 achieved nothing, nothing and more nothing EXCEPT to piss off a billionaire.
Nope. If the trust of the chain was to be broken, as to me v. 22.2 is considered to be, then go all in. Not a rebranding but get a couple of exchanges to run a 22.4fuckyouCAPITALIST fork which had @null|Mr. Sun in the code. Pay the exchanges in BTC to recreate the chain. They sure as shit would have for BTC. Then STEEM would have been saved.
V. 22.2 did not save STEEM.
HIVE is not saving STEEM.
Now there will be most of Hive that will say that the community is saved. Well that may be. But much was lost that may never be regained. Google's indexing just for one. A conscious community effort must be undertaken to fix this one. It could be helped a great deal by redirecting one's blog postings on STEEM to the copy on HIVE. Not 100% sure on that. Have not checked if redirects work on STEEM as well.