RE: Bluffer's Guide to Steem/Hive - Witnesses, Governance & Forks
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Dear @nickyhavey
Such a great and valuable publication. Thanks for sharing this "comprehensive" and long guide it with me :)
I shared it with few guys from project.hope. I think they may benefit from reading your article.
What this means for existing users of Steem is that everything will work exactly the same on Hive.
Kind of. Will we have steemd.com to check our voting power? Will we have steemauto and steemworld? What about steemconnect and steem keychain? Not many things will work exacly the same way on hive.
After recent events, putting together this latest Bluffer's Guide was a no-brainer given that the topic of decentralised governance
Hive will show if decentralized governance can work out. Right now HIVE will be fully centralized. More than steemit ever was. And no storytelling will change it. Hive will be absolutely dominated by group of few closely realted users/businesses and I can forsee that anyone having different view on their actions will be quickly silenced.
Yours, Piotr
Hey @crypto.piotr, thanks for sharing to the Project Hope community, hope they find it comprehensively useful! 😃
I was coming at it from a pure usability point of view in terms of writing posts and commenting, still having your content etc... that much will stay the same as most average users probably want some familiarity with their blog first and foremost I'd imagine.
As for steemd.com, it was created by former Steemit employee @roadscape so my guess is (and it is just a guess) that it will still be run by Steemit as it might be considered as "property of Steemit Inc" and may not be operational on Hive - I don't know about that.
Steemauto have announced in this post that they will continue running for a short while on Steem's blockchain but will be moving fully over to Hive if there's no support on Steem.
Steem Connect & Keychain will be functional to log in to Hive from what I gather in the initial post and conversations I've seen in the PAL Discord.
From what it looks like, the developers of these apps will make the move to Hive and will take their projects with them but I can't speak for them individually as I'm just trying to report what I understand from what I've read.
Yes, my final sentence before the cat picture was "...time will tell" so for those of us who were neutral and watching it all unfold trying to see through the fog, our stance should still be that - see what happens.
You could argue that that was the case already with Steem anyway and I would find it difficult to disagree seeing as the bid bot economy turned witnesses in to whales and a closed group at the top, in addition to other accounts that had ninja-mined stake keeping them there with their own witness votes... is this just a case of "we weren't the ones calling the shots after Justin Sun arrived so we're going to make a chain where we can call the shots"...?
Again, time will tell...
Thanks for the questions and talking points, I'd like to hear from more users about this so will bump up your comment to the top
🙂