we are all gunna die

It is going to be a fun rollercoaster! The stream is to late in the night for me here but will catch up in the morning.

Unpopular opinion incoming:

I don’t see how this can be bad for steem. Even though there are some positive concepts that have been in the pipeline for years (SMTs ect) they arent proven and we have no idea if they are going to actually work.

So a shot in the arm like this can only help because without something big to generate some press I feel like we would be in real trouble here.

Already Sun is tweeting consistently to his 2 million followers and I’m not sure how that can possibly be construed as negative when we have all been so desperate for publicity for so long.

I’m going to go ahead and take as a positive that steem\steemit are being talked about again for the first time in a long time

Initial thoughts... This is interesting, I hope to get some solid information so I can form an opinion.

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It's potentially an "attack". If the idea is to transfer stake from one chain to another and utilize dominant stake to "encourage" the transfer, then it's an attack. It does not matter the intention of the party attacking the chain, even if is it supposedly to everyone's benefit (in the long run, it typically isn't). The way witnesses have been elected is notably very weak to such potential attacks and we'll see what happens. But in a real blockchain, no party is obligated to move their stake to another chain. If that happens, the chain never had any real validity to its claims of censorship resistance or decentralization it initially claimed in the first place.

But if this is an overreaction, consider a government or large corporation doing the same thing. Because they just as easily could. The fact that such a transfer is possible should be gravely concerning to anyone who believes in decentralization, because this move is simply a move that continues a trend in society towards centralization. In the long run in the centralized game, only those with power and money win.

The Earth is Flat lol

If he is going to add funding to steemit Inc for marketing and development of what we already has then it will be great for the chain to get more people and backing.

If he tries to hijack the chain and force some shit coin down on us I see a lot of the community leaving as even though we can continue the chain, without steemit Inc to delver the next set of updates we have taken a big hit and will lose some percentage to the tron shit coin.

Quite the Finally Friday seems like you have been outdone today by this monumental announcement. In any case, this is great if you have a business or are promoting something on Steem. More users, more eyes, more clout.

Justin Sun is the businessman and marketer Steemit Inc. was missing, hopefully he does something with it. Poor CEO, what is going to happen to her?

I think as everything Justin sun touches it will be a clusterfuck his going to take steemit.com and try and “centralize” it and he wants the noobs that use that front end to be “users” of Tron so he can continue to bullshit about his shit coin and get more VC capital and keep going

I think he might have been swindled by ned and sold the idea steemit is like dlive where he could port it over and move on but it’s been so decentralized and the patriotism is so high I hope we won’t take anything less than autonomy from him!