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Statement from the @blockbrothers #2.

Thank you for your trust in @blockbrothers.

We were against the Soft Fork because we don't believe in freezing anyone's assets and feared the precedent it would set. And we were right, while the Soft Fork turned out to be ineffective, the precedent will always be here and will loom over Steem forever.

What Justin did to take back his stake, by utilizing customers funds on exchanges, we also oppose. Using exchanges for this purpose is equally unacceptable.

With Justin now getting his stake back and the exchanges clearing most of their proxies we are seeing pure DPOS.

This is how it should have been from the start.

Having said that we do understand why both parties took both actions.

We, @blockbrothers, would have preferred more talks before action. We are happy to see these talks finally started.

The only outcome to the situation that makes sense for users, investors and witnesses is to make a deal that will suit both parties. Something we have said from the start.

We are just waiting for everyone to realize this.

Thanks again for your support.

End of statement.

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Comments · 24

@jeffjagoe(77)· 2339d
I would love to see a public statement from @blockbrothers explaining why you think you dropped from Witness Position #1 to Witness Position #55 overnight.
@themonetaryfew(58)· 2345d
Not on peakd.com yet? Been silent for a while now...
@melinda010100(80)· 2349d
I miss you and still think there should be room on Hive for for everyone's opinions.
@free-reign(67)· 2349d
You are fucking SCUM of the earth, and a VERY GREEDY motherfucker who crawled to Justin Sun's side as soon as he offered a payout to traitors like you. It is fucking DISGUSTING that a fucking worm like you has a HIVE witness account and got the airdrop even though you're the biggest fucking traitor/greedy Justin Sun ass-licker there was out of EVERYONE. I'm not caring MUCH FOR HIVE anymore, now that I see they let your worthless ass in, and even PAID your traitor fucking ass.

This is a travesty of justice, all for a greedy fucking pig like you.
@ifesports(54)· 2351d
Thanks for this piece
@roundbeargames(73)· 2352d
you're gonna end up running justin's code and freezing people's funds.
@roundbeargames(73)· 2352d
statement from justin's bitch ;)
@block.kids(52)· 2366d
This post didn't get the support of the top accounts because they do not like it. Other short posts that simply call for witness votes are on the trending page.
@skepticology(58)· 2367d
The fork 22.2 was an ethical failure as well as a tactical failure. Sun's tweets about airdrops did not constitute an existential threat to STEEM. If a powerdown/transfer was initiated on the accounts in question, witnesses would have plenty of time to establish lines of communication and decide on a course of action. However the bigger issue is the tactical failure of allowing a single entity to easily control the entire chain. The witnesses have neglected this fundamental security risk, probably for their own favor, and this was the most obvious attack vector after freezing wallets. It was the only question I asked the witnesses about on the Steem Consensus Witness Statement Soft Fork 22.2 thread, and only two responded.
@dobartim(77)· 2367d
Real Decision
@steemitboard(66)· 2369d
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@hans001(59)· 2370d
This action goes much further...

Well freezing funds is not okay.. what if it was used in the btc 51% attacks.. every blockchain can block accounts as every bank can freeze or plunder the bank accounts.. The president is created now. I hate banks and everything around it.

What Mr sun did... was accusing the witnesses of hacking... Well if they were hackers those servers weren't alive for long they were taken down as the exchanges involved would have been taken down also.

Mr sun bought for 10million dollars steem if you buy 25% of a chain and you own a chain this would be with the intention of taking over the chain... like the 51% btc war but the 25% pre mined stake would be invested into steem... now he said I bought it out of business point of view I want to earn...

Everyone was against steemit to dump their steem on the market... this is the same..

If I buy a product I investigate the product if I buy a house what I don't ever do in the Netherlands again anymore because my house got sold for a bill of 1000 euro.. leaving me with a debt of 81.000euro never ever again.. its illegal and I'm fighting against that But that's aside.. but when I bought the house I hired someone who looked if the house was good. You buy steemit and 10 million dollars worth of steem stare in those brown eyes and say ok? You don't investigate what the coin stood for? You don't look in the kitchen and see who is working in the company you buy? The card game splinterlands has tron...

It gives me bad vibes...

Exchanges also used the customers funds in a war... what about the next 51% btc war? Are or were those exchanges also involved in those wars? With customers funds? Personally I say those exchanges involved have to be closed.

Also the 20 witnesses president they can do anything what they want.. you see that is also not okay. Top 20 can easily be taken over. Someone with a big wallet can buy himself into the chain and just take over the chain... do whatever they want... It was just waiting for the moment that something like this would happen. But the top 20? It's not good take the top 100.. or something like that. I'm not a specialist but it isn't ok. That must be changed if there is a future for steem.

Your statement is too soft is my opinion. Yes freezing accounts is not okay and you would have voted against it like this is also this witness system is failing...
@organduo(73)· 2370d
Talking is always better than killing.
@retinox(65)· 2370d
jep 👍🏼
@minismallholding(75)· 2370d
What you're saying here seems to be in contrast with what others are saying as to why the SF was implemented. From what @tombstone has said, there seems to be a bit more to it than there appears to be on the outside looking in. At the time of the SF I chose not to make a judgement, despite the questionability of restricting someone's use of their stake, purely because I wasn't privy to all the ins and outs of everything and wasn't really aware of what had been going on at the front lines. So I had to trust that those on the front lines knew what they were doing for the sake of the community who voted them in. Yet from what you've said here, I'm now not sure that the lower level witnesses are in the loop as much as they should be. Is this an oversight? It seems you weren't aware that attempts to talk to Sun had been ignored.
@mytechtrail(64)· 2370d
I currently proxy you for my witness votes. Are you at least voting enough top witnesses to keep a hard fork from happening until some sort of agreement can be worked out? I believe that the 22.4444 fork that they are running has reverted things to the 22.1 state.
@stephenkendal(76)· 2370d
About time people were starting to see sense.!!

Came across this Blog because I am a big fan of @exyle and it was on his feed.

I agree with every single word above.

Resteemed.

Stephen
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2370d
Another reasonable statement to add to a growing list. I'm seeing good things.

I'm interested in your thoughts on 'a top priority' to have Justin apologize for calling witnesses supporting 22.2 malicious hackers.

Is covering asses or saving faces a top priority? In my case I support some of these people, but for the time being I think convincing Justin to wait before selling while moving forward on exploring the idea that the ninja mined stake is for Steem and not Steemit is most important.
@travelwithus(73)· 2370d
Nothing to ad. You are one the clear thinking witness here.
@randr10(64)· 2370d
I had unvoted you as witness for the sake of getting the top 30 above but I've reinstated it just now. I removed a vote from a former top 20 whose rhetoric I find particularly problematic. I like what you have to say here and I wouldn't mind seeing this voice of reason in the top 20. It's not much but every vote counts, right?
@tombstone(64)· 2370d
Exclaiming you were right doesn't make you right. The only precedent the witnesses set was that they will protect the blockchain when presented with an existential threat, and I'm glad they did.

In addition to an underlying skepticism that Ned would care enough to do a deal that actually takes into account the community's interests, Justin's own INITIAL actions toward the community were clearly not a good sign. Among other things, he confused Steemit with Steem, talked about swapping STEEM for TRX, migrating dApps, he showed that he clearly had NO IDEA that Steemit's STEEM stake had obligations attached, and he didn't even respond to meeting requests (like, seriously?). This forced the witnesses to act defensively such that nothing crazy would happen.

That's a perfectly reasonable and in fact responsible action considering the circumstances. ESPECIALLY considering that we're not talking about just ANY stake here. We're talking about Steemit's ninja-mined stake which, due to the attached obligations, is CLEARLY a special case.

So please stop pretending the action taken by witnesses has wider meaning and somehow looms over Steem forever. And stop comparing this perfectly reasonable action to the highly unethical action JS took by colluding with exchanges to usurp user stake and lock it up for 13 weeks in order to hijack the network with illegitimately voted sockpuppet witness nodes. Such comparisons are not intellectually honest.

And btw, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that not only was the action taken by witnesses reasonable and responsible, but also that Justin's response PROVED that the concerns witnesses had to begin with were WELL FOUNDED. We now know what JS is capable of. If the witnesses had not acted, in a few months we'd very likely be EXACTLY where we are now, except that JS would be far more prepared to force his will upon the community.

Let's not be so naive, please. Thanks.
@preparedwombat(79)· 2370d

would have preferred more talks before action

AFAIK, many witnesses tried to communicate with Sun before the soft fork, but he didn’t respond. Hard to have “more talks” if one side isn’t willing to talk.
@marki99(62)· 2370d
I only see one possible compromise. Remove the voting rights but no constraints on selling the stake.

Either this or hardfork into two coins.
@midlet(74)· 2370d
What deal makes the most sense to you?

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