Farewell Steem
36 moons later I am powering down for the first time and the last time? Why? Odd. Never thought it would come to this. It has been a little over a week since my last post on Justin Sun’s and Tron’s hostile takeover of Steem. Over a week of more empty promises, lies, bribery, Sun blocking on Twitter, and now censorship on steemit.com. That is about enough, don’t you think?
You can own STEEM, but you can’t own Steem! The community is moving on to Hive! That is where I will be! Creating, engaging, curating, and spreading the love of freedom and decentralization!
Hope to see you there! All the love!
M
Song of the day: Glass Animals - Agnes
Well. No farewell... I will be moving over there with you. It won’t be easy to get rid of me
I can be a nice person and stop the rage-trolling once I'm in my new blockchain habitat :)
Yes. Probably a little too much.
See you around.
I'll see ya there M. 🐝
Hey m. Gotta leave you one last Steem comment, yeah?
I just began my first ever powerdown as well. It's more symbolic than anything else. I really don't think it will hold much value over the 13 weeks I'll need to power down. Who's going to actually want to buy this junk now?
It's a bit weird how I can't say I've never powered down on this account anymore, but hey, shit's pivoted, right? When I was first hired as a witness operator, I was obsessed with it never missing a block on my watch. I did pretty okay, but, you know? Eventually something happened and it missed a couple blocks. It wasn't the end of the world. Shit happens. A couple hardforks and chain halts later, that witness has a shit ton of missed blocks... but they're just scars of a job done the best I possibly could. Everyone who was witnessing through those times got them.
So I'll wear my lone powerdown transaction in my account history as a battle scar just like those missed blocks.
See you on the other side. We'll always be Steemians at heart. 💛
I haven’t started PD yet. Don’t even know where that button is. But I am sure I will figure out.
I got to be the last... I will turn off the lights on my way out.
See you on the other side “dear” ;)
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It looks like Sun is doing his best to convince even the most reluctant ones to move to Hive. Let him be alone with his puppets in an empty chain.
See you on the other side!
What's in a name anyway? We'll be there