What I don't get is how these early miners are somehow entitled to some share of the blockchain before it ever became anything worth mentioning, am I missing something? I mean, Steemit coded the thing and one could easily assume that how they "roll-out" their token is completely up to them.
If people had issues with how they handled it back then, surely they had every freedom to opt out of any kind of investment into it. And if people entered into this later on, being aware of this "ninja mine", then, well, they knew what they were getting themselves into, take some eff'n responsibility. And if you invested without being aware, well, try to learn the lesson of thorough due diligence.
The "b.b. but they gave us a verbal agreement that they'd x,y, z with their ninja mined stake..." as the reason to stick with it from the beginning comes across as a sucker being suckered, at best. Unfortunately for the rest of us small fries on this blockchain, you're a bunch of entitled suckers, who're probably going to bring even more negative attention to the blockchain as a whole, if not outright legal action against the most integral nodes of this network.
I hope my gut is wrong on this one, but I really feel like this action started a fire that will have this whole thing burning down in flames. I knew from the beginning that the odds were high that the collective greed of higher SP holders would ultimately kill this blockchain, but I never envisioned it happening this way.