I don't disagree with you, on all the ownership thing's that you said.
I agree in fact.
I was pointing out the false sell of 'ownership' of hive tokens.
A false sell of a product is deception, so possibly illegal (if you know this information, as most hive cultists certainly do).
Hive is not some new Utopian paradigm. Selling it as such doesn't do hive any favors, long term.
After the steem/hive debacle, it can easily be seen for what it is.
Better to sell the product 'as is', than pretending it's something else.
Selling hive as 'ownership' is disingenuous at best,(like saying you own your house as long as mortgage payments are kept up).
Now - in retrospect - and looking at the steem/hive debacle , it's there for all the world to see.
And people do see things.
Having hive stalwarts pumping out the propaganda day after day, month after month, makes it look like more like a 'desperate to sell, say anything', kind of product.
Imo.
yes in some kind of weird circumstances you could end up with no coins in your wallet. do i think it will happen, i kinda doubt that 17 people will come to agreement to just transfer your coins with no repercussion.
the part that you own your account, and that it can't be censored is true, especially the censored part. biggest example is "or you just want to fuck him". He owns steem and if you want to look, it is still there on the blockchain (and i am sure he would erase it if he could)
i kinda doubt that 17 people will come to agreement to just transfer your coins with no repercussion.
It' already been done.(steem/hive)
I'm not saying that it will happen, I'm saying it can happen.
The fact that it can happen proves my point.
Everyone is still, fundamentally, at the whims of 17 anonymous people.
How many are 'incorruptible'?
No one knows.
But you do know that corruption - and therefor the possibility- exists.