It seems we are in agreement as to there being no right side of the issue of the Hive fork, @glory7. Luke strikes me as a genuinely nice person yet is delusional, in my opinion, when it comes to his libratarian rationalizations of why v.22.2 was not theft.

Traditionally a blockchain fork has some major technological difference between the old version and the forked version. Take Bitcoin's block size debate during the BitcoinCore/BircoinCash fork. We did not see that with the Hive/Steem fork. Not even witness voting retention was addressed. Only a 30 day cool off period before stake could be used in witness voting to give the Cabal enough time to @null fuck any new investor that may threaten their power.

Moving STINC's stake to the SPS fund was more administrative in my opinion. The fork seemed more about butting heads and marking territory. The V.22.2 Cabal were more interested in saving their influence/power than saving STEEM or its community in my opinion. The hard fork was always an option and there did not seem to be any rush other than the witnesses in question would have their STEEM faucet turned off at least for a while.

Although the ratios have changed, @blocktrades and @freedom still control 7% of a watered down overall stake. Watered even more so by the airdrop blacklist which cut out any opposition that they may have found on the new Hive chain. Is it only me that finds it incredibly ironic that the fork was predominately instigated by an account which runs an exchange of sorts? 😎

The V.22.2 Cabal through witness voting circle jerking have secured their place in the top 20. @theycallmedan is a big player yet he always seemed to want what was best for the project although showing to be naive to follow the bunch of pirates down the rabbit hole.

Hive looks a lot like the old STEEM to me. Good luck getting some project through SPS that the Cabal does not support. Good luck making it to the top 20 without the Cabal's blessing.

My accounts on both HIVE and STEEM are powering down. The HIVE is being sold as it powers down. Still hanging on to the STEEM to see what may happen with atomic swaps. It sounded like such a positive things when first announced by Mr. Sun. It could bring even more scalability to an already scalable blockchain. How it was turned into a bad thing is beyond me as it is used in BitcoinCore's Lightning Network for example. Perhaps there is something that is beyond my present understanding.

Judging from the price of HIVE it appears that my predictions may be correct unfortunately.

It was an exciting 3+ years and a lot of connections made to some great folks. Maybe the OpenSeed project will find a way of bridging such blockchain chisms. Only time will answer that one.

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