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Insanity at it's finest...and a new round of negotiations.

mindtrap@mindtrap (75)2363d

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I've been monitoring the news closely, from the very moment Justin Sun announced that he came to an agreement with Ned and acquired Steemit.Inc. Deep down I knew that it won't go well, or even if it did go well it would be really bumpy on its way there, and I was right....

I got to tell you that the whole thing, with exchanges interfering over the governance and the future of the chain and the fact that we are nowhere near to an agreement is giving me grey hair...I am telling you...I already have some... I don't need more...

To begin with, the 2 big exchanges Binance and Huobi must have violated every law there is and with their actions crashed everything decentralization stands for.

They claim that they didn't know and that their intention was to "help" and "protect" Steem from hackers and invaders (our previous top 20) while a HF was in play....REALLY?

We've been through 20+ HF before the 0.22.2 SOFT FORK but never before they had interfered. They usually made the necessary adjustments to their wallets, suspended withdrawals and deposits for a few days for everything to be nice and neat and we were back in business.

So why now? What is different this time?

On top of that they don't mean to understand that they should have already started the power down procedure days ago. By now they could have liquefy 1/13th of they custodial funds they illegally used and return those funds to their rightful owners to do whatever the hell they want with it.

It is twisted isn't it?

I am in favor of the 22.4444 version and totally against the sock puppets that Justin has planted in the top 20...and at the same time my liquid STEEM, which I was holding on Binance to trade has being used to vote for something that I am totally against of. If that's not a fiasco then what is?

My guess is that many of you are in the very same position...

So why they haven't initiated a power down procedure yet?

Because they are buying time....

It makes absolutely no sense acting like this. Even if someone was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that...they didn't know what they were doing...that it was a big misunderstanding....now they are completely informed. THEY KNOW what they should do. What they should have already been doing actually....

Obviously there is a reason for that. And the only solid explanation is that they are waiting Justin to take control of the situation and push a HF that would allow them to exit instantly or in 3 - 7 days, aka--> they are planning to vote again since Justin needs the super-majority of the witnesses (17) and there is no way to get there without their help.

In case you didn't know...there is no such thing as STEEM liquidity on the exchanges right now and the only way for him to regain those 17 spots would be either if be bribed Bittrex -which by the way announced that they have no intention to do such a thing as it is against their principles- oooor to spend a shit ton a $$$ and buy the liquid STEEM from Bittrex's open market.

I am really trying to think of a way that the whole negotiations can move forward but I am 100% sure that Tron's representative, Roy, will demand that the only way we could reach to an agreement would be if we make an exception and allow those exchanges to power down immediately...but that's just a hunch....

In any case I am totally against it. NO EXCEPTIONS. Why should we help someone who tried to ruin what we have been building for the past 4 years? Does that mean that I want them to go down? No. But this would be a lesson for them and for everyone who might attempt to do something similar in the future...

They said they didn't know...well they know now...

The power-down option is there...what's stopping them?

Lemme know what you are thinking of the whole situation in the comment section below.

Have a good one people. Image Source

Don't forget to vote for your witnesses.

Cheers.

Comments · 17

  • @cryptofantastic(29)· 2362d

    Binance is a crook exchange which pumps the tokens through unethical trading competitions , IEO only whales get major benefits and there friend like justin.. Justin Sun is cancer to crypto. Let's just eradicate it.

  • @arcange(79)· 2362d

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  • @deepresearch(71)· 2362d

    Sun's narration is by not lowering power-down time we are being hostile towards exchanges, locking their funds up! It allows me to believe they might use their voting again to influence witness list.

  • @kus-knee(74)· 2362d

    I listened to the conference call between Roy of Tron and some of the witnesses.

    It seemed that they may have been willing to negotiate taking down their witnesses in return for a 1 month power down change in the code. This is something that was already being considered before Tron came onto the scene.

    Roy’s stance may have been a smokescreen. The witnesses explained that a hard fork would take longer to execute than the 13 weeks a power down would take.

    Most of the meeting was polite and congenial but some participants are too bellicose for such meetings.

  • @cryptospa(78)· 2362d

    Hey, @mindrtap, I am in Athens.

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  • @robertandrew(70)· 2363d

    A total cluster fuck, really.It's hard to believe a reputable exchange like Binance and the others would do something this devious.

  • @coininstant(69)· 2363d

    All the witnesses are not powering down, I just checked a few and @gtg, @enginewitty, @steemspeak, & @pharesim are not. I agree most of them are, wow!

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  • @norbu(70)· 2363d

    This business of the exchanges using our funds against our wishes, isn't it illegal? So why do we not also explore the legal options as a deterrent for them to interfere? For the record I still have some steem in one of those exchanges and cannot withdraw to vote for who I want, all because they have already voted for me without my permission. This is criminal use of my funds and we, the community, should also consider that.

  • @dr-frankenstein(66)· 2363d

    NO EXCEPTIONS

    You can't enter in negotiation "with good faith" by adopting such an approach. If none of the parties are willing to give some concessions, then we probably better off forking right now and save everyone months of constant headaches.

  • @denmarkguy(79)· 2363d

    I'm pretty sure they are stalling for time @mindtrap.

    I am also pretty sure that the much higher than usual volume on Bittrex and gradual uptrend in the price of Steem for about 48 hours is a signal that Justin/"they" are trying to accumulate Steem by buying it. This pattern began at approximately 10am US Pacific time on March 4th, and is still running; volume at about $180,000-200,000 per day, up from about 1/8th of that. And the trading has been "aggressive," meaning there are almost no downspikes.

    So, I'm thinking we need to do everything we can to boost at least 5-6 of our consensus witnesses so far out of range that it becomes economically idiotic to try to buy enough Steem to unseat them.

    There's a bit of a lull right now, with the previously HUGE buy wall having gone back to its usual pattern of many more small orders... just six hours ago, Bittrex had lots of 20,000, 30,000, 50,000 Steem buy orders... those have dried up a bit... but that should be watched, and we should have MAJOR campaigns to get people to not only make sure they have voted for witnesses, but also those people who HAVE voted for witnesses — but did so "a long time ago" need to check their voting and see if they aren't voting for some deactivated/obsolete witnesses, and move their votes "up."

    We're certainly not out of the woods yet, so let's not get too comfortable...

  • @enkiangames(32)· 2363d

    It’s going to be a bumpy ride, but I’m glad the Steem community is basically in revolt against these actions. Shows the strength of it and that people aren’t going to passively lay down and take it.

  • @oldtimer(76)· 2363d

    But at the same time, all our witnesses are powering down. Hmmm. I wonder? Any clue?

  • @knowhow92(79)· 2363d

    I also think they are buying time. They illegally used their customer's funds as you said and now they are trying to figure a way to get out of this. The most likely scenario that comes to my mind is they wait until the Tron team has their super-fast power down code ready, they vote for witnesses and then implement the code. Hope I am wrong though!

  • @discernente(77)· 2363d

    Believe it or not, but I think they are planning to interfere in our governance again.

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  • @chesatochi(73)· 2363d

    They need to learn the hard way.

  • @mindtrap(75)· 2363d

    And some Poshing just in case they didn't know....