Sold to the Highest Bidder (& only bidder?)

I knew before going to sleep that I would wake up to a Steem/Tron announcement due to some tweets going around between Justin Sun and Ned Scott. I didn't realize it was to announce the death, or rather the transfer of Steem coins into Tron coins. It seems that the Steem coin is going the way of the dinosaur.

With Tron now the largest holder of Steem coins through ownership of Poloniex (#3 largest exchange holding steem until sent to Binance I believe) and now Steemit, inc, Justin Sun plans to integrate Steem into the Tron network, and thus no more Steem Network as we know it today.

I feel that the Steem technology does not need Tron's, but that Tron needs the Steem Technology, and more importantly its community. They claim 20 million Tron users, and that Steem has 1 million users, so there again, why does Tron need Steem?

I believe that since the Tron technology is merely a copy of Ethereum's, they have nothing truly revolutionary to offer. Their claim of 20 Million users is probably from Tron's/Justin Sun's purchase of Bittorrent and claim that user base. This was a strategic move on Sun's part to enhance his Tron coin, and as he claimed in a recent interview, that this merger of tech is the next phase in cryptoland, just as it is in the regular financial world.

Therefore it feels like NED sold us out, but in reality, the corporate mentality has now fully infiltrated cryptoland and it is just the normal course of business. The Question for many of us is what crypto-ship to jump to next, or stay the course and see where these winds take us? EOS's Voice (Steem Killer/enhancer/replacement/copy???) is now on Beta and there are a few other alternatives, but none that I see me going to at the moment.

This truly feels like a walk the plank or stick with us moment!

2020 sure has started with a bang!

+++ @streetstyle