I'm pretty sure it was not Justin's intentions to kill Steem @mindtrap. It was (and is) his intention to make money, and rule the world. Personally, I think it was his intention to control Steem/Steemit to try to add some "legitimacy" to his empire... he's gotten to where he is by skirting the edges of scamming and scheming; Tron allegedly has all these apps, but hardly any users.
Although the event — and the Steem/Steemit deal — had both been in the works for months, I think it's noteworthy that this all happened just a couple of weeks after Justin's $4.5M dinner with Warren Buffett. Again, this was set up LONG before this deal, BUT the lessons learned would still be fresh in Justin's mind. What does Buffett do? He invests in "undervalued basics." What was Steem's place in the crypto world? As close to an undervalued utility coin as you can get. We have working apps and users here.
Justin is pretty smart... if there was anything he might have been trying to "destroy" it might have been any publicity noise surrounding the launch of Dan's "Voice" project into full public Beta. That one landed with a THUD, thanks to all the focus being on the Tron/Steem deal.
Tron/Justin 1 — Voice/Dan 0
How this defensive move will play out in the longer term... remains to be seen. I just hope we didn't just lose the marketing, money and other resources we so terribly were missing, under the Ned tenure.
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We didn't have those in the first place...;)