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Stealing implies ownership.

No one owned any HIVE before Hive was launched. Therefore, excluding who was allowed the "duplication" token is not stealing.

People on Steem paid actual money for some of their STEEM, and it was actually taken away from them.

None of your HIVE was taken from you, because you didn't own any to begin with.

I'm not necessarily on board 100% with the blacklist that happened, but this argument of "Hive witnesses stole your non-existent tokens!" is so mind numbingly dull in how wrong its base premise is. You're building a house on mud, there's no good foundation for your argument.

...well said, they were my thoughts.
Property is required, for theft to take place.

Yep, nobody is entitled to the labor and resources of others. Forking is creating something new, and requires labor and resources to achieve.

...the leftists nightmare...no entitlement!
lolol

Man, again, wrong at the foundation level:

  1. "All Steem owners owned Hive, no, they literally didn't. If I were to make a fork of Hive right now, call it SpencerChain with SpencerCoin, nobody is entitled to SpencerCoin. You can't sue me for it, you can't demand it, it's literally just not yours. You did nothing to earn SpencerCoin. That is fundamentally in the nature of open-source software that the Steem blockchain is. Perhaps that's what you're not understaning? Licences? I don't know, maybe you're just not used to the OSS scene, but if you were you'd understand the freedom that comes with forking a product & making it your own little thing.

  2. "Rename is exactly what happened", well, that and some minor code changes. For instance, Hive added the 30 day "cooldown" between powering up & voting for witnesses. That's something Steem doesn't have, so already you're wrong in stating it's 100% the same code. Don't tell me to "check the code" if you haven't yourself.

  3. "There is no new token", I don't know how to respond to this delusion. HIVE =/= STEEM. You must be trolling me if you actually don't believe that. Different tokens, different listings, different pairings, different communities, even different economics when you focus on the macro scale.

You are so micro focused on one sliver from here, and a misunderstood sliver from there, that you refuse to let yourself see the big picture. It's like you're trying really hard to play devil's advocate that your intentionally being obtuse.

The title alone is a breath of fresh air.

And tell me whats the poin of hard fork if that scum has the same power over the hive network.

Have you bought a single hive token? In case you did, are the funds you bought taken away? I

Regardless, I'm sick of this shitshow. Probably wont invest a penny in dpos. Fuck this shit