We're going into week 2 of the #steemhostiletakeover. I was going to start my meme war yesterday, but decided extending an olive branch on the day both huobi and binance did a full powerdown would be a good chance to give the man a least one out of the situation. It can be hard to back down when there's so many angry people shouting at you. I'm going to continue extending my offer to help him get out of the mess he, ned, and the exchanges created. I'm a reasonable human being and will help him navigate backing out and making amends for the damage he's caused (and the laws he's likely broken). This is an important part of SAVING STEEM!
That said. I don't condone holding the steem governance hostage or making demands while he's doing it.
Two town halls ago I asked for people to help construct some meme templates. My goal wasn't to figure out every good meme that should be written about this "fiasco" but I wanted to make sure there are ample templates that Steemians can use to help highlight the situation.
I present user created templates below. Thank you to the audience for your work and I can't wait to see the creative potential of Steemians unlocked into the twitter sphere to take our case to the general public.
suggestions
comical is good
toxic is bad
Poloniex, huobi, and binance colluded with Ned and Justin. We need to keep the pressure on them. They post things daily to help stay relevant. It would be helpful to all of their readers to know that they facilitated the steemhostiletakeover and their actions allowed the ONGOING hostile takeover. Despite having taken 2 steps (stop voting and powerdown) to withdraw from the conflict they're still responsible that we're in this mess and into our second week of it.
We're looking to keep the hearts and minds of the cryptosphere thinking about this so that there continues to be pressure on Justin, the exchanges, and Ned to stand down and stop holding our governance hostage.
Anyway, there's some good things in here you can use to spice up your posts. Should be fun!
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The palnet motto is do no harm, but take no shit. Helping Justin figure out a pathway out so that the steem blockchain, my home, isn't bulldozed by him is good. Fighting him tooth and nail no matter what and really entrenching him in his position is bad. If he's continuing to double and triple down then making his life difficult is the right path, but there needs to be a way for him to say "ok ok, I quit!"
To me it's a bit like playing the game mercy where you're extending as much pressure as they can take to get them to say "Mercy." At that point you don't continue to break their wrist. You let up. You don't let up until they say Mercy. I let up for a day because to me it looks like he lost both his allies. The rest of this is just a slow motion train wreck for Tron and the colluding exchanges.
Talking to him and guiding him to backing down is part of doing no harm. Setting up a vietmeme is part of taking no shit.
I understand how it can look confusing to people who don't hold that attitude, or potentially want something different than saving Steem. I can see how it looks like playing both sides. I'm trying to stay a moderate with Justin so he can quit, while also rousing a defense to my home so he's encouraged to quit. Both of those are geared towards saving steem.
I don't think yous are going to win a legal battle with Justin Sun. Yous forked his millions in investment first ...... sure there's likely some consequences that can be held to Justin Sun and/or the exchanges but that doesn't absolved yous of messing with millions of dollars worth of STEEM he purchased with his own funds.
I see allot of finger pointing going on but not much acceptance from the witnesses that they should have never forked Justin Sun stake. There's more people to blame here other then Justin Sun. ... Some accountabilty needs to be taken in by everyone on all sides of this mess.
There's too much against yous in regards to the mined stake.
(1) Yous left it in play for years without forking
(2) Others have mined stake that wasn't softforked
(3) The disclaimer in the Steemit Wallet
(4) No legal document in place to prove the Steemit Inc. stake isn't private
(5) The ninja mined stake owned by others that aren't Steemit INC. has been used and is continued to be used to vote in "real" witnesses.
Not too mention the timing of the fork. Justin Sun stake was forked just days after the AMA / shortly after the official announcement he purchased Steemit INC. and stake. I'm not sure you realize how bad all this looks and not in the favor of the witnesses. How anyone thought it was a good idea to soft fork a millionairs funds days after he announced his acquisition is beyond me. He not only has the funds to fight back but also much more resources. Justin Sun could easily crush the Steem coins value if he wanted.
I was in direct contact with Binance on behalf of the group of consensus witnesses. An old contact from last year that popped up in the current situation. It was a telegram group with myself, this person from binance and one other who I won’t mention as they have stated they are under a NDA.
Randomly a document was dropped on behalf of the witnesses, one I had not seen. I asked where it came from and was told it was sent from Aggroed.
I went to the chat with the witnesses to ensure this had consensus as I had not seen it, it was discovered some had not seen it and those that had had not agreed for it to be shared or sent to Binance.
When asked Aggroed stated he had no idea and stated Roy must of “cherry picked” the document and leaked it.. I explained how that was not true as I was told where it came from. He would not answer any further questions from the group.
The google doc showed history and suggestions made from Roy, of what needed to be added or removed.. written on behalf of the witnesses to “make an agreement” with the exchange. This document also showed history of Justin reviewing it as well.
The agreement itself was not bad, power down, don’t vote (which was already being worked through with Binance and therefore there was no need for this document) as well as asking for donation to the SPS if I remember correctly and then a bunch of promises of what the witnesses would and would not do.
Quite frankly I wasn’t sure this needed to go public, but this BS game and playing victim to the community is getting old. There is a reason he is losing witness support, and it’s not because he’s just a nice guy trying to save his home.. his ego makes him think he is the only one able to do anything so he makes back door deals that undermine the effort and end up hurting the community, just like he did with the foundation.
I’m done letting his manipulative ways go unquestioned.
>I'm going to continue extending my offer to help him get out of the mess he, ned, and the exchanges created.
The first step to helping, is to admit that the witnesses are also to blame for this mess. If they hadn't implemented the softfork, none of this would be happening right now.
The witnesses are behaving like the playground bully who punches a kid, then when the kid brings out a baseball bat, they all start crying no fair!
We need to put all this behind us, I think we need an outside negotiator to help, or Steemit and probably all the associated d'apps will die.
Cg