Yep - The mining was shady. (Funny tip, you can see who was involved by seeing what their account creation number was. For Instance. Bernie is 340, Ned and Dan... in the 400s.) This info shows on Steemd.

I'm over the mining part - a couple of reasons.. Those who are still here, held through .07 cents and Dan leaving. So, it's kind of a dead issue... Whatever happened.

I have no opinion on the Synereo part, but I have to say... Steem's name being close to Synereo, because they start with a S is so weak, I laughed out loud. Also, they didn't get it done and we DID.

I guess one could also say most new crypto projects steal some ideas from some former projects and expand on them. So, I find all of that BS boring.

End of the day, I think Dan is very smart and a bit of an Engineer, with no ability to lead a business, cultivate a culture or basically do anything beyond the design. I can't decided whether or not I think he has integrity and that is rare for me. I can usually "just tell".

My gut instinct on Stan is he is gross and scammy and defensive.

I think there were many scammy things here in the early days and some of those still happen.

The beauty of a trustless system is if I use my stake to it's fullest ability, no one else can really hurt me.

On the other hand, if we are trying to build a project here, I see very little signs that anyone knows how and is willing to lead it.

I'm currently holding. I am not longer focused on acquiring, because I think our competition is catching up too fast.