if you don't do as the witnesses want, then we'll freeze your assets.

That's scary, and that screams centralization to me. I don't like Sun at all and consider his shitty ideas regarding a potential Steem Tron as being a lack of respect towards us, as a decentralized blockchain. You can't simply come and buy a ninja mined stake, which should have been forked for long time ago and change whatever the fuck you consider.

For that regard, yeah, take Steemit out of the equation in deciding Steem's faith. I don't understand why witnesses haven't done that years ago, when they realized that the funds weren't used for developments.

I guess they weren't threatened by some guy kicking them out and the milking was good. I assume that it Sun could accomplish his plans there wouldn't be any need for witnesses, hence their reactions.

Overall the fork is somehow self explanatory, but still...the witnesses could have done that many years ago. It's all about money in here, as pretty much everywhere, and once your income is threatened you react.

That's how I see witnesses reaction, but I kinda of support it. Instead of one shithead doing whatever wants with a good working project, better a group of people, that mostly care for themselves to be honest, that still take in account the community for the future of Steem.

I wished someone else would buy Steemit. Someone like Elon Musk for example... but yeah, Justin had the money and the will... Great post by the way, and definitely deserves tons of upvotes and resteems.