I think the problem with all this technical logic and semantics is that HF23 could have theoretically pretty easily have ticked all the boxes for a "new asset" by your definition. Yet the final result would be exactly the same.
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Yeah, I'm not great at right and wrong and good guys and bad guys and imagining what things might be - I don't know how people don't marvel at this technological wizardry. Legit - no stake was ever removed from any wallet in the creation of Hive
That doesn't make you feel a little cool to be able to say that about this place?
That they did it in real time AND managed a pretty smooth fork.... what hive hf23 pulled off is epic
And because no assets were ever moved from any account, Hive hf23 is not theft, but steem hf23 is. I know you say it doesn't matter because the scene looks the same at the end of the day
Let's imagine the cops call - your car is at the bottom of a lake. You left it parked in the lot!! Oh noez! You rush down there, the police arrest you and put you in jail for littering. You try to tell them it wasn't you. You're the victim! Someone stole your car and left it in a lake, and now you're in jail, because the cops don't care about the semantics of whether something was moved voluntarily or whether it was stolen.... the means of arriving at the picture do matter
I don't think we can underestimate the value of Hive hf23 - no stake was moved/removed from any account ever in any portion of the process. The same cannot be said for steem hf23
Sure, but I think this is a good time to state the obvious:
If Justin Sun hadn't attacked us, EVERYONE would say what Hive did was theft.
Only because he mercilessly attacked the network over and over did we get away with this.
We reallocated the funds of a criminal.
Honestly though, yes.
It is pretty cool how it all went down and how the witnesses actually pulled off a HF better than Steemit would have. Kudos!