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Protect & Govern STEEM: Vote for Witnesses NOW!

Wolf@therealwolf (77)2381d

TL;DR: Vote for Witnesses (or set proxies) so the community has more influence than a single individual!

**It doesn't matter which witness. Just make sure they've got Steem as n°1 priority!**

Vote here => https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses

Fellow Steemians,

the ninja-mined stake from Steemit Inc. has always been a danger to our decentralised governance.

This is true now more than ever.

Justin Sun is a smart business man and if I were a TRX hodler, I'd be pretty stoked about his recent shopping spree.

But I'm first and foremost a Steemian!

I've built on here for more than 2 years and I'm lucky to have seen all the many positive attributes this blockchain brings to the table of crypto.

Especially with recent improvements, such as SPS, Mira, Resource Credits and soon SMTs & RC delegations. The future looks bright!

However, our blockchain is at risk.

There are a lot of rumours going around.

While Justin Sun is saying that for now Steem blockchain is staying as is, there are too many articles & tweets talking about the current STEEM token having to be converted to TRX STEEM, or becoming worthless.

This is a major red-flag in my opinion!

Steem is not and will not become a marketing product for any other blockchain.

If it were to make sense to migrate towards a newer & better technology, then it would make sense to think about it.

But right now, with the improvements that have been built on-top of the Steem core code, there is absolutely no reason why Steem, as a blockchain, should cease to exist, just to become another TRX-10/20 token.

What to do then?

As @taskmaster4450 correctly pointed out (post), there is currently over 210 Million Steempower on Steem.

If I subtract 75 million of Steemit Inc's stake and subtract 48 Million which is currently voting for the n°1 witness @yabapmatt, then there are still 90 Million Steempower left not voting for witnesses.

Alone 50% of that, 45 Million, would mean that the community would have more influence in deciding the future of Steem, than any single individual.

That means:

Vote for Witnesses - NOW!

Vote here => https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses

It doesn't matter which one you choose, as long as the witnesses have Steem as N°1 priority!

It obviously would make sense to support the current top 30 Witnesses, to make sure that we've got enough power to sustain any attack, but there are a lot of great witnesses below that ofc.

Now, if you don't know which witnesses to vote for, then simply set a proxy (you can choose me or any other Steemian you trust) as a proxy.

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Header over to the user's profile on Steempeak.com and do the action you see above in the image (ACTIONS => Set as proxy)

This will result in your Steempower being proxied to said user who will vote with your Steempower as well (only for witnesses, doesn't include regular post voting).

If you want to set me as a proxy: https://therealwolf.me/vote?for=therealwolf&action=proxy

This post is not FUD

As I said in my previous post: I'm an optimist by heart and I would love nothing more than a mutual beneficial partnership between TRON & STEEM.

BUT.. I will not accept any risks regarding the stakeholders investments on here nor to give up on a project with so much potential.

We are not just here to make TRX holders richer!

If we can all benefit from this arrangement, then that would be great.

But let's be prepared to fight for our blockchain and our freedom!

https://giphy.com/gifs/braveheart-jaEnOOay0BGGk

Vote for Witnesses NOW (or set proxies) so the community has more influence than a single individual!

Vote here => https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses

PS: Please focus on using alternative Steem interfaces; such as Steempeak.com, eSteem and more ... https://steemapps.com/type/interface

https://soundcloud.com/user-166850331/toss-a-vote-to-your-witness

Vote for @followbtcnews!

Comments · 67

  • @reddust(72)· 2375d

    I came back to work on Steemit after being away for 9 months. We moved, bought a new house and Steemit was a mess with management issues. I'm excited to see what happens with Tron. However the blacklisting issues are bad, they are being used to silence hot topics. I was blacklisted by a group called Steemstem on articles I wrote 2 years ago and I never posted with this group. I'm being blacklisted for ideological reasons...I'm thinking of closing my account because the blacklist looks really bad. Plus there is no place to go to report the issue except to the group that is being abusive.

  • @kimmysomelove42(59)· 2375d

    Thanks for this post, as I have little knowledge on who to vote for, I am going over to try to set you as my proxy.... and you have a new follower ;)

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2378d

    Congratulations @therealwolf! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

    You distributed more than 43000 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 44000 upvotes.

    You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

    Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

    Valentine's day challenge - Give a badge to your beloved!
    Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
  • @trendotoken(59)· 2378d

    Congratulations @therealwolf, your post successfully recieved 13.50566663 TRDO from below listed TRENDO callers:

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  • @dede99(62)· 2379d

    Very good

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  • @nascimentoab(64)· 2379d

    [We are not just here to make TRX holders richer!] Poor Binance!

  • @namiks(77)· 2379d

    What would be cool is a few posts featuring lists on which witnesses hold certain opinions on these recent events so we could vote accordingly.

  • @bravedevelopment(54)· 2379d

    Awesome initiative 👏👏. And indeed it is very necessary. All the witnesses should get the proper support by us as a community. Voted you as witness also Thank you sharing this.

  • @oldtimer(76)· 2380d

    How many people will set Sun as a proxy?

  • @kendrahill(41)· 2380d

    .

  • @theguruasia(69)· 2380d

    @therealwolf, Yep already voted for you guys! STEEM #1 $trdo

    Cheers~

  • @gduran(68)· 2380d

    Didn't @pumpkin or @freedom always control who was a top 20 witness? Sun can just do the same thing if he wants to. You also have to take into account that you are not going to be able to convince everyone to vote for your idea which, by the way, is a good idea in theory, but it is a fact there are over one million members who are no longer even active I would think some of them do have some of that 90m SP you talk about. I think really that this is out of our hands. Also humans tend to follow the big guy in this case the huge guy, so I think many will just go along with him.

  • @chireerocks(75)· 2380d

    @therealwolf, Thank you for sharing your Concern and definitely this is the actual time when whole Community should come forward to rise again as always. Stay blessed.

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  • @alexs1320(72)· 2380d

    Why would people want to preserve the current system?

  • @uyobong(78)· 2380d

    Good idea here @therealwolf. However, I think it's time to support good contents with big upvotes yo increase the potency of votes to witness. Consider of 45 million worth of vests held by top whales can be used to mine at least 10 million steem in the next 7 days.. that would be huge and it would further boost community votes on top witnesses.

    Posted via Steemleo

  • @beerlover(65)· 2380d

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  • @detlev(82)· 2380d

    Dear @therealwolf

    To the point. I like the way you made all this a bit more clear.

    #FullSuuport4Steem and a !BEER from me

  • @manoldonchev(74)· 2380d

    Thanks for the reminder. I did cast 7-8 more votes. There were people I thought I was already voting for but obviously not until now. I had not reviewed my previous votes for quite a while and the truth is I don't know enough. Some of my choices seem Disabled. Is that temporary? I will try and learn more before continuing with my last votes. Good luck!

  • @united.indonesia(43)· 2380d

    Wow...thats great idea. Everyone must to follow @yabapmatt for a weakness..

  • @blazing(71)· 2380d

    #SaveSteemit

  • @issymarie(68)· 2380d

    Hi @therealwolf And what is your opinion about the future, as you say may be good but the uncertainties are latent, on the other hand voting the witnesses as you also expose it in your point of view we should join all users and do it to protect the platform .

    Greetings from Chile.

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  • @arcange(79)· 2380d

    Congratulations @therealwolf! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following categories:

    • Comments - Ranked 10 with 71 comments
    • Pending payout - Ranked 3 with $ 117,26
  • @freddio(60)· 2380d

    He should make a clear press release ( or post) to steem what the plan from him is.

    What he does is make him look like Evilned ( before useless ned).

    Have someone contact to him? for a Interview ( or to ask question from him).

    But to be real, if he attacks Steem, he loss 100% of his Investment. I think the community will stay on real steem. If he wants the tech for tron, he can use a fork i think for free?

    So he should tell us a plan he has. Otherwise it will become from day to day worse for him.

  • @zaibkang(67)· 2380d

    Yes there should be mutual beneficial partnership between TRON & STEEM. We may support to make TRX holders richer and get more rewards if they can do same thing for us

    I already voted for 30 witnesses 1 year ago and updated my list as I need to update

  • @bil.prag(76)· 2380d

    would be great if some of those witnesses tell us for example "that they talked to steemit employees, that they tried to contact some people at trone..." so we could try and resolve this SHIT SHOW!

  • @papilloncharity(83)· 2380d

    @therealwolf Well, I vote for witnesses that support our charity and it seems that I will have to change it now in order to fill up our witness vote count. Will think about it!

  • @sumit1998(67)· 2380d

    I understand this is important for us to stay safe. I voted you as my witness and several others to

  • @gadrian(76)· 2381d

    Some info pulled from the blockchain/SteemSQL for steemians to know who are the inactive accounts with a relatively significant amount of stake behind or number of accounts that set them as proxies. That would be useful. Some people may have entrusted the wrong accounts with their voting rights.

  • @julianhorack(76)· 2381d

    Interesting developments, I don't have enough experience or info overall to determine the best way to save the potential abuse of the steemit blockchain in this takeover by TRONsun, but it looks bad when one company has to sell out to another. Steemit is gone, now it's all TRON, to the outside observer, regardless of what it looks like under the hood to the devs.

    Nevertheless, if voting for witnesses will help then let's focus on that guys.

  • @lordbutterfly(80)· 2381d

    Can you send a large text memo to all users above 500 SP with inactive witness votes and spam it for the next few days?

    I know its not nice or pretty but now is not the time for aesthetics.

    If someone more known like Blocktrades could do it even better.

  • @steepup(66)· 2381d

    Hi, i just realise about the latest development on the steem block chain. I see no reason why steem token should be worthless or become TRX STEEM. I have been here for some time, and am looking forward for the best of the blockchain. The blockchain should be rescue imo. Voting for credible witness will go a long way.

  • @ocupation(71)· 2381d

    I'm in this, we should hard fork them out in case they decide to make something we dont agree with. On the other hand, Justin bought steemit in order to increase his income, and if he decides to go against us, his investment will fade away...

    Need more clarifications on this one before start acting. Preventing those things from happening is a way to go.

  • @valued-customer(75)· 2381d

    My understanding of how witness votes work is that 100% of our VP is cast for each of the 30 witness votes we are availed. Witness vote VP does not deplete like normal VP.

    Recently @edicted posted regarding how that enables Tron to vote 30 times with 75M Steem for 30 witnesses of it's choice, and how to make that not possible by causing 100% depletion of witness votes. Per his proposal, if Tron cast 20M votes for one witness, it would have 55M votes left. That eliminates it's ability to simply vote in 30 witnesses of it's choosing at it's sole option.

    I also posted regarding the exact same idea that day, as I had read a comment from @bryan-imhoff explaining the idea. Apparently it's not a new idea, except to me.

    I strongly recommend Steem protect it's witnesses via this mechanism, which decentralizes control of the witnesses to the degree it can be done on a DPoS platform.

    Also, Vote for Witnesses!

  • @oppongk(69)· 2381d

    Well said @therealwolf, the community can't be used for gambling because of the choice one business entity. The community of steem is our priority toiled by millions of steemians blood to let is stand till now, then we should act fact to claim its survival before it suffers nitches...D: Thanks for alerting us what is in the space coming....would be ready vote for my witness @therealwolf or any other of witness of my choice.

  • @kus-knee(74)· 2381d

    I have my proxy set to @blockbrothers!

  • @dr-frankenstein(66)· 2381d

    You are a hypocrite and an opportunist, as always. You are one of the worst candidates. Running a witness doesn't make special, almost anyone can do it.

    Stop spreading FUD, you are not a hero. You and many other witnesses are the reason why the blockchain ended up like this.

  • @chesatochi(73)· 2381d

    I cast all my votes in the top 30! It is better to prepare for the worst in case of a chain split.

  • @culgin(72)· 2381d

    Alternative Steem interfaces become more relevant after the Tron acquisition/partnership/collaboration or whatever they call it.

    My personal favorite is @steempeak

  • @kingscrown(82)· 2381d

    thats what im doing since 4 years!

  • @cloudspyder(60)· 2381d

    Since you know more than I know about the Steem blockchain, I just set you @therealwolf as proxy.

  • @good-karma(77)· 2381d

    Absolutely necessary now that community stays active and uses their stake wisely for the good of Steem.

    Vote for witnesses OR Set active members as proxy

  • @steem-plus(74)· 2381d

    Hi, @therealwolf!

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  • @cryptopie(78)· 2381d

    I think steem blockchain is in danger based on what Justin Sun is signaling. Maybe forking steemitinc stake is the solution?

  • @jacobpeacock(74)· 2381d

    @therealwolf this question has been nagging at me for the last several days now and I would like to get your opinion on it.

    Do you personally think that @yabapmatt has a real desire to preserve the Steem ecosystem as it is given his involvement with both Splinterlands (that has a Tron feature) and Steem-Engine which is backed by Poloniex?

    I am asking because all of those things plus that he currently is the number one witness seem (from my limited perspective and incomplete understanding of the full scenario) to have an incredible amount to gain by a Token swap and/or merger with the Tron blockchain?

    In other words would you vouch for him to do the right thing?

    I have had zero interactions with him and do not know anyone else that has and by my nature I tend to be suspicious of folks. Please do not feel obligated to answer this but an answer would be greatly appreciated.

    Edit: Privex is backed by Poloniex in my understanding. Sorry if I am misinformed there or if I should have just used Privex in my original post instead of Poloniex.

  • @creativetruth(71)· 2381d

    Question: By setting a proxy, do I get to keep my currently voted witnesses, or are they all reset into whatever my proxy chooses?

    I suppose another good choice is to look at the witnesses chosen by someone I might trust as a proxy, and distribute my votes to match more of their choices, and keep other witness votes I specifically want too keep.

  • @epic-fail(70)· 2381d

    so much STEEM is lost forever in accounts of people that left STEEM or lost their keys. How much Steem does the rest of the community REALLY have available though? Look at all of the accounts that @superheroes and @steemengineteam have access to. I fear there is a lot less active STEEM available then is being estimated.

  • @flemingfarm(81)· 2381d

    Voting our witnesses is a mandatory thing that needs to happen universally in Steem. We DO need to know that all the witnesses are on the same page and are all ready to fight the fight though. I really want to have a list of our "dedicated" witnesses. The top 100 list is just a list of names and the amount of work to investigate every one is onerous. These are important times for the chain and we need to have an "all hands on deck" call to arms, beyond the "AMA".

  • @abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2381d

    I am always sure to vote 30witnesses. Actually updated one the other day (helpie dropped out ). One thing I do when I give someone an account ticket is set me as their witness/proposal proxy and of course recovery (this is automatic). I think some of the bigger accounts giving away lots should consider this. If you feel it is controlversial, warn them first amd let them know they can change it using steemworld or something.

    That said I think we can easily get 70million sp just looking at the whales and orcas not voting. A few of the big guys are operated by ???? And may not be allowed to do anything, but chasing minnows and plankton will be difficult to reach the target.

  • @gabbynhice(67)· 2381d

    Done. I mean just checked and i had 12 votes left but now all of them i used. Hope all of us will do the same.

  • @metzli(68)· 2381d

    Is there an alternative to change witness other than the steemitwallet? I have been trying for days and can't seem to get anything to change.

    Posted via Steemleo

  • @neopch(75)· 2381d

    Let's protect our Blockchain together! Ive setup proxy for @yabapmatt :)

  • @fredrikaa(74)· 2381d

    Great initiative! For me, it is crucial that we ensure that the users and stakeholders who have stayed with us through a harsh bear market (or two), gets what they were promised (the SMT hardfork and the key value propositions Steem have as an immutable, decentralized social platform where everyone can be a part and own a part.

    Our witness (@steempress) will do everything to ensure that is what the community gets.

  • @jacobtothe(77)· 2381d

    I haven't used all of my witness votes, but I did start updating a couple days ago.

  • @dalz(81)· 2381d

    Just drained my witness voting power!

  • @vikisecrets(80)· 2381d

    Voted you as a witness right now to protect the Steem blockchain :)

  • @simplegame(71)· 2381d

    Is there a way to write a script to send a comment to everyone that has not voted ?

  • @revisesociology(82)· 2381d

    I've used all mine, I've voted a fair few T20s, if required I'll pull my vote from those lower down and pile in more T20s.

    Having said that I've only got 29k SP (although that puts me well into the top 1000), it's probably mostly just a matter of the top 100 non-steemit accounts coordinating to get to 100M SP, maybe less?

    Very important issue this, thanks for the post.

  • @doze(76)· 2381d

    Resteemed and retwitted!

  • @steevc(80)· 2381d

    I have been using all my witness votes for ages. I just have to check now and then that none have gone inactive. I hope they will stick with us through these 'interesting times'

  • @tomlee(71)· 2381d

    Wonderful view indeed. I'm heading straight a way to complete my 30 votes.

    I hope every other steemian follows suit.

  • @freebornangel(72)· 2381d

    That would all sound better if you didn't mute dissenters, hadn't built a better way to hide bid botting when you got here, and profited from scheming for two years despite being informed of the error of your ways.

    The stake you acquired by ninjamining the pool is ill gotten, imo.

    Sell your stake, take your ideas, and move to tron, eh?

  • @acidyo(84)· 2381d

    100%.

    There's way too many users who use witness voting the way they use curation, i.e. unvoting because they disagree with something a witness or someone involved in the witness does with curation (upvoting & downvoting) and often sit there with just 10 used witness votes or like to play politics and using their witness votes or proxies as a way to attempt to garner upvotes. These are all very childish things to do, we're talking about the security of our blockchain here so set aside those issues and vote for the witnesses you know have the best intentions for the blockchain in mind or proxy to someone you trust is up to date with who he votes for and uses all 30 votes.

  • @stevelivingston(67)· 2381d

    Well said. You've got my proxy vote

  • @jacobpeacock(74)· 2381d

    Thank You @therealwolf!

  • @toofasteddie(77)· 2381d

    It would be great to create a proxy account as a kind of “union” of blockchain defense, that union would vote for witnesses that defense the Steem Blockchain avoiding attacks of a major stakeholder.

  • @steemitportugal(56)· 2381d

    The Portuguese community @steemitportugal in Steemit has a witness and we would be grateful if anyone can vote for us. Link: https://beta.steemconnect.com/sign/account_witness_vote?approve=1&witness=steemitportugal

    Hug from Portugal!

  • @cyberblock(65)· 2381d

    I vote for Justin Sun, he is my god :)