RE: My Take on the New "EIP" Hardfork 21 Announcement

I found luke-stokes recent post about how he's been demoted from 2 to 19 in the witness rankings. He's undecided about HF21 - he doesn't say it, but it looks like a clear cut case of whale collaboration to out him and get in someone else who'll vote for the change. He's had some huge names unvote his witness recently.

Interesting conspiracy, but most def. not. What you're doing here is acting as if the proposed HF is somehow only valuable for whales on Steem and thus looking for clues which support this theory. However, you're missing that whales are the ones staked in this system, which means they (normally) want it to succeed, increasing their investment. And not like the last year, losing in valuation constantly. Which is why many of them looked for delegations/vote-selling in order to at least make some of the lost money back. Otherwise, they could just sell and buy into another currency.

I'm 100% sure I won't be gaining anything from these changes, standing still is about the best I can hope for. If my rewards reduce even by 20% it wouldn't be worth my carrying on posting, I'll just go passive.

I'm sure you mean that, but I'd say that's a ridiculous statement. If you're producing good content and are actively curating, you should be happy about the coming changes. Otherwise, you can switch to Wordpress, where your revenue will be prob. far, far less than what you're currently making.

But let's see, shall we?

@remind-me in 2 months