5 days ago, I've shared with you an open letter I wrote to Ned & Steemit Inc., about my concerns with the current 35 Million SP power-down of @steemit and the risk this possesses for Steem.
Yesterday, @ned came onto the PALnet discord server to speak on the State of Steem show about multiple topics. One of them was about this power-down and the reasoning of it. Essentially, it is a protective measure to save the funds of Steemit Inc. in a possible fork which would threaten their stake.
This threat originated from these written lines of code by a @almost-digital. In addition, there has been some uproar & dissatisfaction from stakeholders & witnesses towards the results Steemit Inc. has achieved in return for selling their initially mined Stake. While nobody planned to run this code or door were in favour of it (as far as I know)ll interpreted by @ned as a real threat.
Now, I understand why @ned has then decided to start this power down, but I believe that powering down 35+ million STEEM is still a risk for the ecosystem.
Public On-Chain Statement
That's why I want to make this public, on-chain statement (on an immutable ledger) as a show of good faith, because I believe in a future for Steem, where Steemit Inc. and it's stakeholders & community are working together:
I, @therealwolf, will not in any way, run a version of steemd on my servers as a Witness, that are risking the funds of Steemit Inc, without creating a new chain. Which means: should there be a fork that creates a new blockchain (similar like SCORUM, SMOKE, WHALESHARES, etc), then that's another case, however, I will not support any fork that is trying to alter/remove the balance/keys/stake of Steemit Inc. on the main-chain STEEM!
This statement is valid regardless if the power-down is cancelled because I believe a fork in that way, will threaten the health of our STEEM ecosystem, where many projects, communities, apps & users have found a place they can call home.
Additionally, I also see any hard-fork threatening to split the STEEM community on a new blockchain as potential destructive, so I'm very careful in that regard and will not accept any half-baked attempts.
Now with that said, I do hope that you, @ned, will take the leap of faith and stop the power-down.
Thank you!
@therealwolf
Steem Witness