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Liberty: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Steem Blockchain

@thecryptodrive@thecryptodrive (70)2372d

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Flying in the face of Steem's original launch on Independence Day in 2016, Steem began the spiral to losing its independence when CEO and founder Ned Scott initiated the "Howey Handshake" with Justin Sun, promising the migration of the Token and ceding the stake which was mined supposedly for community benefit to the buyer without consulting the community or community governance. Two individuals conspired to move a community to a new chain without thought or consideration that all other apps, dapps, tools and libraries (over 400 in total) developed by community members would not be interoperable with Tron. Equally, no consideration was taken over the content which is self-sovereign to the authors and their rights and opinions of their content moving to a different chain.

Recently Steem became the Gaza Strip of crypto, with witness and stakeholders wrestling with Justin Sun (Tron) and his droid witness army for legitimate governance over the Steem blockchain.

Today marks a sad day for freedom, liberty and the greater crypto community, when three exchanges, Binance, Huobi and Poloniex, powered up user funds without authorisation to assist Justin Sun of Tron to insert his army of witnesses to take over the Steem chain after former witnesses and stakeholders after moved to block via soft fork, the voting and transfer rights of the Steemit stake under social contract for the development of the community.

Page 21 of the 2017 Roadmap highlights this https://steem.com/2017roadmap.pdf

Decentralizing Stake The Steemit, Inc.-controlled primary account, @steemit, which holds approximately 41% of the platform’s Steem Power, will be gradually divested of its holdings in an effort to increase promotion and development of the platform and this distribution shall further the platform’s security through decentralization of voting power.

Further social contracts exist for the non-consensus voting of witnesses using the ninja mined stake; witnesses and stakeholders petitioned Justin via Steemit MD and Tron representative, Roy Liu, in the Steemit Corporate Slack, to request of Justin Sun to voluntarily decline voting rights of those accounts in a show-of-faith to the community. These petitions fell on deaf ears and no response was given.

Seven days later, amidst fears from news reports of Justin Sun running Tron in a centralised fashion, coupled with zero response to the show-of-faith petition, Soft Fork 22.2 was launched.

https://steemit.com/steem/@softfork222/soft-fork-222

In the days ahead, Justin Sun placated the community by scheduling meetings to discuss the matter with witnesses, all the while planning to oust them in centralised fashion by replacing them with a Skynet of his own mindless NPC witnesses, voted in by his cronies at the aforementioned exchanges. This can be seen by the Steemd Block Explorer.

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The Heart of a Community

Following the withdrawl of Binance's proxy vote after Binance CEO CZ back-peddled on Twitter saying that Binance does not wish to be involved in governance issues, the droid witnesses lost some ground, the Steem community has been scrambling to increase voting participation with former witnesses seeing record vote numbers and values pour in support throughout the day,

Appeal to the Greater Crypto Community

This appeal goes out to the crypto community to take up arms alongside the Steem community and fight centralisation, assist in powering up Steem stake and voting back the original Steem consensus governance, now in position 21 upwards running protest fork 22.4444 (Edit: some witnesses such as myself have reverted back to the 22.1 version label so as not to offend sympathetic Asian users) as per the above screenshot of witness ranking.

Exchanges should not be able to use their client's funds in a non-consensual manner for political voting, nor lock such funds up on a vesting schedule without permission.

The time to stand against centralisation and censorship is now! Vote for real witnesses:

https://steempeak.com/me/witnesses

One cannot simply sell a blockchain!

@thecryptodrive Former Steem Consensus Witness BuildTeam CEO

This is a 100% Burnpost!

Comments · 17

  • @steemitboard(66)· 2370d

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  • @phusionphil(70)· 2371d

    I Do not want Tron in my life, please do not force Steem users WHO DO NOT WANT TRON WHATSOEVER to do things they dont want to do.

  • @arcange(79)· 2371d

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  • @hone.heke(48)· 2371d

    there is another who holds ninja mined stake and uses it to vote for witnesses. Why do you not complain about that? Or is it you under yet another name?

  • @cabi5boh(50)· 2372d

    I think that what we need now is a restoration of the status quo and negotiation on a leveled table.

    I'll vote the 0.22.1 and others (.333 .404); I however cannot get behind 4444, which is racist against the Chinese.

  • @joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2372d

    What the exchanges did is what Rothschild did.

  • @moeknows(67)· 2372d

    Do you have any other examples of the promise concerning the ninja mined stake?

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  • @arthur.grafo(70)· 2372d

    I have 4 accounts. None with very high SP, but for whatever they are worth, I am setting you as proxy for all of them. My knowledge of who is a good guy and who is a bad one might lead me to voting or not voting effectively, so I'll trust you to do it for all of us to the best of your ability.

    I hope others will be inspired to do the same.

    (I got a message from a bot, asking me to give my proxy to someone who has flagged me repeatedly because he did not like my posts, not because I broke the rules, so ... fat chance. )

    Is burning rewards a good idea when we need to increase our holdings of SP? Burning may help bring back some value, but right now, that is not our problem, is it?

  • @ultratrain(70)· 2372d

    Great in depth post. Time to fight or die.

    Posted using Partiko Android

  • @hotbit(59)· 2372d

    fight centralisation

    I wonder how 30 votes per stake do help to fight centralization? This rule leads to oligarchy and governance of the small group of cooperating individuals. 1 stake = 1 voice is fair. 1 stake = 30 voices is an abuse.

  • @builderofcastles(74)· 2372d

    i wonder how many of the exchanges realized they were locking funds.

    If they realized they were locking funds, then it was by Mr. Tron's word that they would be unlocked, else they basically stopped being an exchange for STEEM, and are now have stolen all the STEEM.

    The truth behind that will be seen shortly. Which exchanges say, OMG we're sorry, that was bad, bad, bad, we will do what we can to fix it right now.

  • @viking-ventures(74)· 2372d

    Thanks for this! I hope that everyone will join in with this mission. It also shows how witnesses cannot be so strongly determined by SP. This is something that must be fixed once we have control again... or if it becomes clear that it's time for Steem2.

  • @wask(42)· 2372d

    @thecryptodrive this post is informative,educating and interesting too.....thanks for sharing it....

    Posted via Steemleo

  • @dune69(65)· 2372d

    If the witness's from 21 down could come to some consensus with a blockchain version that suits the community and everyone ran the same version. Then in effect you trap the 20 fake witness's SP or at least the exchanges into holding steem power. So they are unable to power down without been removed from the top 20 positions.

    So in effect you get all the community to vote for 21 to 41 in the witness list Plus get everyone with steem on the 3 exchanged to withdraw their steem

  • @discernente(77)· 2372d

    This all was a coup. Nobody should replace democratically elected witnesses that way. I didn't even know such an arbitrary attitude was possible.

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