Absolutely. The only value I see in buying STEEM and acquiring the Steemit.com app is to bridge his way toward the Steem community, not alienate it.

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Yeah, I think we are missing a lot of the details and planning that have happened behind the scenes as this was all thrust upon the community.

Ned was the devil we knew and Justin is the devil we don't.

For all we know, Justin could bring tons of capital, development and marketing awareness to the Steem blockchain that we have sorely lacked. It is now in his best interest -- in having 75 million STEEM -- to make the blockchain more valuable through *his* Steemit.com platform.

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I think a lot of the communication issues are derived from 2 primary sources:
1. Language barrier
2. Lack of preparation

I think 2. has to do with the deal being pushed forward for certain reasons. Perhaps the voice launch or perhaps some other factor. The deal seems rushed and I think a lot of the specific details are still being worked on internally by Justin Sun. I mean, he didn't even talk to Eli Powell and the Steemit, Inc. employees.

This will all blow over after a week or two when the dust settles.

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I agree, this could be a great opportunity for everyone on Steem. 

There's certainly some risk that we could be moved over to Tron in a hostile way, but I don't see that as the likely outcome. It's not in the best interest of Steemians and because of that, it's not in the best interest of Justin Sun.

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It is a definitive dichotomy -- on one hand, Steem has always lacked marketing and now Justin Sun is the largest stakeholder and he is known for being good at marketing.

On the other hand, Steem is a community that values independence and freedom from Steemit, Inc. If Justin doesn't understand that key component of what it means to be a Steemian, then he will lose favor with the people on this blockchain. Losing favor with us means his investment in our blockchain (70 million STEEM) and the top application on it (Steemit) is essentially worthless.

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>Have you considered that his intention is to try to strong arm users into moving to Tronit? Make they feel they have no recourse and the screws will start to be removed.

This is the very thing I fear.

>This isn't farfetched imo. It's strategically sound. He may also think the investment is trivial as a mechanism to remove a potential competitor in a space he seems to have his eyes on.

Such a move is strategically sound in the corporate world, which I'm afraid much of the blockchain space is like with very large stakes concentrated into the hands of the likes of Justin Sun and Dan Larrimer. There are some large PoW chains where power is actually relatively decentralized, though.

>Think it's a coincidence this is happening in line w the Voice EOS launch. It's not. Think he will still end up coming out on top. His cult will grow. Many of us will take an L.

Unfortunately, most people in the cryptocurrency space carry with them the scarcity mindset. They follow leaders and do not care about decentralization. What results is more of the same as usual with fraudsters using the name of a type of distributed ledger over-redundant, too inefficient and basically completely useless for any other purpose than facilitating trustless peer-to-peer economies and governance.I find the idea of competition in the crypto space to be absolutely stupid. 

Take Dan Larrimer. He is technically very competent and understands business. Take Justin Sun. He's not a techie at all but a genius at marketing and building up hype. Both have the qualities with which to do well in business.

But neither is an actual visionary. They may talk the talk but neither has walked the walk so far. Blockchains without decentralization are nothing but a scam.

Steem was moving towards real decentralization with Ned at the helm of Steemit, Inc. Not intentionally, though, as Steemit, Inc's problems partially caused by Ned's incompetence caused Steemit, Inc to have to auto-sell at a rate that diminished its stake at a rapid pace, removing very large number of tokens out of Steemit, Inc's hands and putting them into the hands of the community members every month. Only a couple of years more would've made Steem a truly decentralized DPoS chain. The low price of Steem and Steemit, Inc auto-selling vast quantities of STEEM were a blessing in disguise. If we are forced migrate to Tronit, there is no telling what the stake distribution will be.

If Sun tries to strong arm us into moving to Tronit, he will have made me into a full-on Bitcoin maximalist instantly.

I created my Steem account exactly three years ago today. I'm afraid I've wasted three years here. I could've been building a blog somewhere else.

I know from experience that I have the ability to gain a fair number of followers on various forums. What brought me to Steem was the supreme ease of monetizing that.

>Life will go on. The spirit of Steem can live on however. (At least the good parts)

Maybe on some other DPoS chain with a much better initial stake distribution.

From what I've heard he spent 10 million on the entire thing.  Even if we doubled that amount, he still spent 10 million less than what Block One spent on the voice.com domain alone.  For his money, he gets a well-trafficked site with an existing user base.  Given the timing of the announcement to coincide with the Voice announcement, it's surprising how many people think his top priority would be the STEEM token as an investment.  In a way I think people are conflating their own value of a dollar, and the STEEM token itself, to how Justin Sun actually values them.  The investment is rather small compared to other financial activities he has partaken in.  The overwhelmingly large token stake could be the very mechanism used to force the issue of Tronifying the Steemit website, and forcing the decision onto the average STEEM holder to either accept the inevitable dilution and go to the Tron chain, or take your chances on a community fork.