Due to the news that came out yesterday I wanted to do something a little different than usual today.
I have spent the best part of this morning creating a comic strip using Photoshop for everyone's amusement. A little light satire to wet the whistle before this afternoon's AMA.
Get ready for a shocking story of dastardly deals, backroom shenanigans and an evil blockchain overlord...
I give you...
The Tron EOS Conspiracy.
All fun aside this is a serious issue and a shocking announcement! Especially when you read the medium article from Tron Foundation which essentially states that they plan to try and migrate everything, and the community to the Tron blockchain.
TRON Foundation and Steemit Inc. will look to create further value for their users and to augment their advancements in decentralized technologies, including moving old STEEM token to a new TRON based STEEM token, giveaways to the existing TRX users with the new TRON based STEEM token.
I don't remember anyone asking me if I was interested in publishing my content on the Tron blockchain! I also don't remember signing up to the idea that Tron holders should benefit from extracting the value from this blockchain, and token, that I and many others helped to build with our content.
Given the shocking conspiracy I have uncovered in my comic strip... I would like to invite everyone producing content around this issue (like @lukestokes, @theycallmedan, @thecryptodrive, @themarkymark, @anthonyadavisii, @therealwolf, @taskmaster4450, @abh12345 and all the great and good of steem)to consider the possibility that we are facing a hostile takeover by an evil blockchain overlord... but which one?
Thanks for reading.
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shared on twitter to get the shocking truth out!
We're either fucked or we're better off than before that's the two way it goes.
Yeah, pretty much sums it up. We'll find out in the AMA in an hour. Tbh, if they follow through with trying to move steem token to Tron and airdrop free tron/steem to Tron hodlers, that's is a hostile takeover, pure and simple. This is because the token swap/airdrop waters down the steem token value that all of the content creators here have built!
Why should a bunch of Tron twitter moon boys, who can barely string a sentence together gain a portion of the value of the years of high quality writing I, and others, have put in to steem? What happens if the majority exchange their steem tokens, and then a bunch of Tron hodlers get thousands of tron/steem tokens? I'm pretty sure it would cause two effects; the overall lowering of price of said tokens (Tron hodlers won't care because to them it's free money), and the proliferation of shit posts with high reward/influence that has never been earned or paid for by these new airdroped dolphins, orcas and whales on the new Tron-based platform.
some people are saying things like 'Steemit Inc does not own the blockchain nor do they have the ability to dictate what happens to it.'
The first part of this statement is 100% right, but I don't agree that stincs stake (now Justine sun's) can't influence who gets into consensus witness position... and he is most likely to use that stake ruthlessly to undermine steem blockchain to hijack the steem community to Tron, make no mistake, that is what he wants... Us!
If all this turns out true, then the only option for steem to survive and thrive is if the witnesses fork steem and development on SMT's etc continues separate to steemit.inc.
But if the majority of the consensus witnesses end up under Justoin Sun's thumb through bribes etc, then he 100% can dictate what happens to the chain and his agenda would be pushed forward.
Which brings us back to a fork of steem to prevent all that happening, but that fork needs to happen quickly if his plans are a full shut down of steem and migration to Tron, or all the promise that SMT's and communities show will go down the toilet.
I will personally be listening to the dlive talk, and dropping into the witness forum afterwards in discord to listen, as well as writing a few posts about this, but honestly, I think that the forgone conclusion of all this is that steem needs to fork very quickly with a strong majority of users to retain both the network and the tokens value.
Maybe we can finally do away with Steemit?
Maybe, yeah. but that would take forking out steemit's (now Justin Sun's) stake as that massive stake can essentially vote in whatever witnesses it pleases. We'll find out in the AMA in an hour. Tbh, if they follow through with trying to move steem token to Tron and airdrop free tron/steem to Tron hodlers, that's is a hostile takeover, pure and simple. This is because the token swap/airdrop waters down the steem token value that all of the content creators here have built!
Why should a bunch of Tron twitter moon boys, who can barely string a sentence together gain a portion of the value of the years of high quality writing I, and others, have put in to steem? What happens if the majority exchange their steem tokens, and then a bunch of Tron hodlers get thousands of tron/steem tokens? I'm pretty sure it would cause two effects; the overall lowering of price of said tokens (Tron hodlers won't care because to them it's free money), and the proliferation of shit posts with high reward/influence that has never been earned or paid for by these new airdroped dolphins, orcas and whales on the new Tron-based platform.
some people are saying things like 'Steemit Inc does not own the blockchain nor do they have the ability to dictate what happens to it.'
The first part of this statement is 100% right, but I don't agree that stincs stake (now Justine sun's) can't influence who gets into consensus witness position... and he is most likely to use that stake ruthlessly to undermine steem blockchain to hijack the steem community to Tron. Make no mistake, that is what he wants... Us! But there is nothing over at Tron that interests me whatsoever. It looks like a bunch a pretty shity dapps around gambling etc. Probably some decent blockchain games as well, but they don't interest me in the slightest.
If all this turns out true, then the only option for steem to survive and thrive is if the witnesses fork steem and development on SMT's etc continues separate to steemit.inc.
But if the majority of the consensus witnesses end up under Justoin Sun's thumb through bribes etc, then he 100% can dictate what happens to the chain and his agenda would be pushed forward.
Which brings us back to a fork of steem to prevent all that happening, but that fork needs to happen quickly if his plans are a full shut down of steem and migration to Tron, or all the promise that SMT's and communities show will go down the toilet.
I will personally be listening to the dlive talk, and dropping into the witness forum afterwards in discord to listen, as well as writing a few posts about this, but honestly, I think that the forgone conclusion of all this is that steem needs to fork very quickly with a strong majority of users to retain both the network and the tokens value.
For me as a writer, who values steem as a place where I can publish autonomously, this is all very worrying as true censorship resistance , and decent readership is probably not gonna survive a Tronit future.
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