I took down the blacklist today, I had planned on continuing to run it but when Justin Sun used Steemit Inc ninja mine to vote out all the proposals, I turned it off.  

Out of over 2 years of developing, maintaining, and hosting it, it was funded by the SPS for about 2 weeks.

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Don't base your assumptions on doubts, study the costs, analyze, get more information, َand finish with a conclusion that you can back up with data.

and just to be clear here, even though I agree on its importance, I am against that the first-mentioned proposal, my opinion alines with the opinion of  [smooth](https://steempeak.com/sps/@smooth/pxukc9) on this.  We fed (metaphorically) him for months, then he took off suddenly even when he knew that several projects relied on his node. This is the kind of centralization that led me to oppose it. 

You only mentioned a few names btw, there were more proposals on the funding line. Anyway, what do you think is the difference between continuous development/updates and just chill by keeping something on and get free money just because you changed one line of cost 6 months ago? You got the idea. Those people were paid to dedicate X time for Y task/result. If you publicly announce that you are going to shift all your focus to Hive or another thing, then so long. The Steem community doesn't need to pay for development under open source licenses just so other chains can benefit from it. 

and yes we all requested the SPS to be secured, I wrote a post about it, and guess what, I am not Korean.

To end with. I didn't say that all of them didn't deserve funding, out of the bunch, only 2 deserved the support of the community.

Thank you,

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