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no you were originally right, Ned needs to donate Steemit as open source, not steem, let them work on the blockchain, And he needs to keep Steem but divest some. I suggest a kickstarter campaign for a buy out for everything in the originsal management team except for 10%, With a closed end dividend for 5 years

neither you or I or anyone has the authority to buy ned out. He has over a million liquid steem sitting in his account, if he wants to sell at fair market value, it's a quick and cheap transfer to any exchange.