So any new large whale investor should have his account frozen until he clarifies his intentions? Justin had 20%, not a majority. Thats not decentralization. Thats centralization. Gentlemans agreement worth 12 million dollars? Who does that?
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I believe the issue was more with the stake than Justin and rightfully so. For those of us who invested in the blockchain for the last few years I agree that trust in Ned to do the right thing was wrong.
For the record I don't think any whale investor should wield such power in governance unless they add to the community in other ways.
The Steemit account is an absolute majority (about 70%) of the actively voting stake. You can't expect all of the supply to ever vote because much of it is liquid for trading as well as dormant or even lost accounts.
The only way we know how much stake is going to vote is by how much actually votes and i that case it's a clear majority.
No.
Good then stop going on about legal documents (in your other replies). People are free to run whatever software they want, and that includes forks. Blockchains are entirely voluntary and don't rely ultimately on coercive enforcement by government institutions the way centralized systems do. That is their entire purpose for existing.
"We", in this context, means everyone. When Justin buys a company that has stake on a blockchain and that blockchain community has a clear understanding of how that stake is to be used, he violates that at his peril.
Absolutely and that includes insuring that the 65-75 million steam that was earmarked for development of the ecosystem is used for that, regardless of whether or not the shares in some company change hands.
In truth, the community accepted Ned's lies and spin for too long and enforcement of on-chain controls over that stake should have happened long ago, but better late than never.
Well said. What’s hilarious, to me at leat, is that this whole drama has been the only thing that’s gotten me (or many others) to actually be interested in visiting/using steem for the first time in like...forever.
Justin did not pay anything close to 12 million dollars. He got a massive discount, either because he know about the stake being a form of dev fund and thought he could jam it out anyway with the help of exchanges, or he couldn't resist a deal that was "too good to be true" and didn't bother to carefully look into what he was buying.
How much he paid is not an opinion, it is a number. The rest of my comment is a set of alternatives, which is also not opinion, as one of them must be true. Did I miss some other possibility? I don't think so.