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Statement: 0.22.5

Wolf@therealwolf (77)2367d

For the past 2 1/2 years, I've been devoted to Steem. But seemingly, this doesn't matter.

@justinsunsteemit, just took it into his own hands to vote in 20 own witnesses, backed by Binance & Huobi, with a statement that the SF 222 was malicious.

I fully disagree about the SF being malicious.

It was an attempt to uphold Steemit Inc (now owned by Tron) on their words & social contracts, they've given me and many other developers, entrepreneurs and Steem enthusiasts.

@ned & Steemit Inc. have proven that they were incapable of getting shit done and left it to their community to bring value to their project.

And when we, the community, finally thought, we'd see light at the end of the tunnel, we're being brought back into 2016. A Steem which is being controlled by a single entity.

I don't think of it as an absolutely negative thing, but based on the past 4 years, this is a major punch in the face.

Why did the community spent years on marketing & improving Steem, just for the useless founder to get a nice payday?

Steem would be nothing without its community of developers, entrepreneurs & creators.

Do you really think that Steem wouldn't have tanked far more and lost far more users, if projects like SteemMonsters wouldn't have kept people around, on Steem?

Look, I have nothing against Justin Sun (I was actually quite optimistic of finally Steem getting the change it needed) and I've always disagreed with forking out anyones stake (forking !== freezing).

But I also disagree with how we, the community contributors, are being treated.

So, for now, I've shutdown SteemApps.com and Smartsteem.com.

Comments · 32

  • @michelcamacaro(63)· 2362d

    Remember, the people whit more money its the most dirty!

  • @arcange(79)· 2366d

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  • @bmanmcfly(47)· 2366d

    "Why did the community spent years on marketing & improving Steem, just for the useless founder to get a nice payday?"

    The platform was always designed for that purpose. It was obvious.

    If this was about attracting users with a well designed platform meant for user experience, the issues would have been addressed back in 2018 when these issues became undeniable.

    Remember when the whole game was buying votes from bots?

    Don't worry, Justin has an excellent track record of making good profits while sucking the life out of his investments.

  • @helpiecake(55)· 2367d

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  • @wakeupkitty(72)· 2367d

    It's your right to shutdown what is yours, take your money and run, invest in something else or buy beer and chocolate.

    You can not blame @justinsunsteemit for the mess others made out of this platform nor for you not getting what you want or expected.

    @nathanmars and many tried hard to make something good out of this platform. Not only those who developped an app, promoted Steem but especially all those writers who decided to stay, to keep writing although they do not have most benefit from it, are hardly noticed.

    That soft fork was a dirty trick. You wouldn't like me to frozen your banksaccount etc either just because I fear you will get me or kick you out.

    If a business is sold you know changes will be made and heads will roll/cut off.

    It was your free choice to invest in this sinking ship, weeks ago a certain group here already knew Steemit would be sold, and it was my choice too to stay.

    I will stay and see what @justinsunsteemit makes out of it. He has my trust, more as @ned had.

    The witnesses with their soft fork created this situation. That's how I see it. They told Justin exactly what their fear was, what they would do and thought they could get away with it.

    You can be disappointed because with your help you filled someone else's bankaccount but you knew that was the case, you know this platform way better as I and most steemians do.

    I wish you luck with whatever you do or go. 💕

  • @grintsch(54)· 2367d

    I admired the initial (calm and well-thought) reactions from the community, including the SF. The more I'm now shocked by this severe step that @justinsunsteemit and the exchanges have taken. The backlash is already big, but will grow much bigger with more time.

    Blockchains, as much as token holders like to think that, don't belong to token holders. They are owned by the people running and using it. Should there be a HF with no Steemit stake, any user could decide by themselves which one they prefer. I believe there would be a ton of users supporting this. Not suggesting that to happen, though, there are still other ways to save Steem.

  • @fionasfavourites(77)· 2367d

    What a mess this all is. And the little fish are simply caught up in the turbulence which, I hope, will not turn into a rip current. I to hope that sanity will prevail. Not that I'm really sure what that is, in this instance. lol

    All this does beg the question - in the context of a social network: Did he not consider that fact: social = people = conflict. Good and bad. Ignore it at your peril.

    I will say that I was snowed - as were many and am grateful for witnesses who keep an eye on things - and the integrity of the blockchain. Thank you.

  • @jaybird(75)· 2367d

    Seems like he basically did exactly what the top 20 witnesses (that the community voted in) tried to prevent... Sound like you guys had the right idea in mind trying to protect us!

  • @oldtimer(76)· 2367d

    In your post 8 days ago you said that you fully support soft fork. In this post, you said that you were always against forking or freezing anyone's stake. what I'm missing here?

  • @mehta(77)· 2367d

    Sun is now WARMING the steem and crypto space. ....... with some old witnesses. Anyone can reach at top 20 witness but they should have the power... steem power.

  • @bue(53)· 2367d

    try to get everybody to withdraw steem from exchange. that is all we can do to help steem network

  • @sumit1998(67)· 2367d

    Justin think he is an mastermind who make everything right but literally he is fool and he is nothing but playing with his millions of invested in steem and at the end he just want an another pump in tron so that he can sell more tron at high price

  • @asimpleman(46)· 2367d

    For the past 2 1/2 years, I've been devoted to Steem. But seemingly, this doesn't matter.

    lol you have been devoted to gathering as much Steem for yourself, as you possibly could. Nothing else.

  • @chromiumone(65)· 2367d

    To my understanding the exchanges powered up a ton of liquid Steem that belonged to their clients and voted with it. Is this legal ?? This Steem is now locked up and will take 13 weeks to power down. What happens if their clients want to remove their Steem ?? Want to make a bet that the new witnesses do a fork to allow a quick power down ? Seems to me that Sun and the exchanges have exposed themselves to a fair amount of legal trouble and depending on the country, criminal charges as well as being a giant bag of dicks.

  • @notconvinced(62)· 2367d

    I disagreed with the softfork, but agree with your current action.

    I think we need to fork with some big changes. Here are what I'd like to see happen.

    We need to scrap the witness hierarchy, increase the nodes to an infinite number and eliminate weighted stakes for voting on governance issues. This would make Steem or the forked version truly decentralized and this type of coup would not happen again.

    Nodes, not witnesses.

  • @preparedwombat(79)· 2367d

    Steem is dead. Stick a fork in it. Long live Steem Classic.

  • @steemitcuration(63)· 2367d

    So you played your cards first and he doubled down and spanked you it happens lets not be sore losers.

  • @gabbynhice(67)· 2367d

    Ok. I am not a developer not even a good content creator. But lets see what we have:

    1. We have a tron developers and steemit inc. Team.
    2. Justin sun have money to make nice changes
    3. With this move he make the platform more centralized for sure, but if he wanna sucess and he make those positive changes what steemitblog mentioned in the roadmap than it means millions of users will join so they will have a steem power as well so this situation where we are now should not takes long. This is how i understand the situation but maybe i am wrong.
  • @masterthematrix(61)· 2367d

    Als Hardcore Steemian wuerde ich sagen dass wir alles bekommen haben was wir wollten. Communities und SMTs werden noch fertiggestellt und jetzt liefert Justin Sun die Vorlage um endlich den Ninja mined Steem Anteil aus der Blockchain zu forken. Was uebrig bleibt ist der Hardcore Steemian User mit einer besseren dezentralen Infrastruktur welche endlich nur von den Usern kontrolliert wird. SMTs und Communities bieten viel Entfaltungsmoeglichkeiten fuer die Zukunft um diese neue Chain weiterzuentwickeln.

  • @alexvanaken(68)· 2367d

    Only took @justinsunsteemit a couple weeks to literally ruin everything 👏

  • @vikisecrets(80)· 2367d

    Whoa, was just wandering what happened to steemapps, then read the opwn letter and now this. Hope we can somehoe de-escalate the whole shit. But on the positive side we and also the crypto community are learning a lesson also how exchanges are misusing their power and voting with customer funds.

  • @martie7(62)· 2367d

    If the fork does happen, will everyone get a share according to their stake? What will the exchanges say about such an action?

  • @dotwin1981(74)· 2367d

    Gute Entscheidung. Hoffe es ziehen einige mit und machen ihre Projekte erst mal zu, damit die "Obrigkeit" mal sieht, wer hier eigenltich Steem am laufen hällt!

  • @chekohler(76)· 2367d

    Damn, this has really got out of hand, I knew it wasn't going to be a smooth transition but not like this. It's total chaos now, so the town hall was all BS!

  • @sn0n(65)· 2367d

    This argument is what every open source programmer could say about Amazon and other big box companies using their free and open software to make millions... Yet somehow, it's not always the case.

    We build tools then toys because we love the sandbox

    The capitalizing on open source developers hard work is an ongoing battle in the open source world,.. and well, from a philisophical standpoint, it's a losing one.

    If you didn't want something to happen to the toy, you shouldn't have put the toy on public display

    People like to break things others have made, sometimes it's to make it better, sometimes it's more malicious.... Who's to say, we aren't in their mind, we must wait until we've calmed down, and ask the 2 yr old, why they did what they did. It's that simple....

    Investigation of facts, not assumptions. Also, knowing history is important.

    Idk, I'm as shook as you honestly, but trying to be mindful of the past all the while.

  • @chesatochi(73)· 2367d

    The best thing is just to split and continue our chain as usual.

  • @shmoogleosukami(73)· 2367d

    Well shit..

  • @namiks(77)· 2367d

    Fuck Justin. What a disgusting piece of shit.

  • @atma.love(71)· 2367d

    Can we fork out, reverting to previous version?

  • @lacking(69)· 2367d

    I respect and support your decision to shut down your apps in light of the recent actions taken by the Justin Sun crew formerly known as Steemit Inc.

  • @culgin(72)· 2367d

    I always believe that Steem should be a community-driven platform. Justin Sun's acquisition took Steem a few steps back from decentralized governance and now this happened. I think it will be difficult not to be disheartened by this recent development.

    @tipu curate

  • @ash(74)· 2367d

    damn, really liked smartsteem... why not keep it online and point your node to the fork once available?