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Drama on Steem

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Drama still continues on Steemit with nothing clear coming out of it. I was surprised about a meeting with Sun or at least his people and some big Steemit accounts, I really thought that meeting was supposed to be tonight March 4, I guess either I was wrong or this meeting was set up on some channel that was not Steemit.

By now I guess it is apparent that Justin Sun got what he wanted, to free his stake that the soft fork was holding, he got that now he has the upper hand, if he uses all of it I don't see any way for the witnesses to be able to get a majority at the top.

Now whatever happens is really beyond mine and actually most Steemit users control, so I actually am just a watcher, but I do find some things kind of funny.

For example the soft fork was implemented to not let Justin Sun use his bought stake for his personal purposes, the excuse was that the stake was ninja mined and @ned had made an agreement that it would never be used for voting. Never mind that Sun wasn't using it for voting, the thing is that I know @ned never signed anything and we all know his word is not that trustworthy.

But I also know that every week, Steemit inc powered down around 200,000 Steem, I watched their Steem holdings go from over 70 million to less than 30 million, so yes this Steem was most probably sent to an exchange for sale, who bought it I really don't know because Steem hasn't been that much in demand for at least one year.

But the thing is, the Steem that was ninja mined and sold this way was legitimized, because now someone else owns it, hell maybe Justin Sun was the buyer all along. But this brings up the question why did the big accounts and the top witnesses let this happen, this is completely on them, if they felt so strongly about the ninja mined stake. And if by selling it to someone else the stake was legitimized why is Sun's buying so wrong? So actually I think there is something more than a desire to maintain the ninja stake to just be used for Steem's and its users advantage, and to keep Steem decentralized (which it actually never was).

Another thing when CEO Eli Powell was hired there was questioning by some people about why she was hired knowing nothing about Steem or Steemit. The noise was hushed by the bigger accounts and witnesses because she, at that moment was convenient to them. Today she is being trashed, when actually she is just doing what any employee does, doing what her employer demands she do. I don't know her I can't say much about her but it seems that people on Steemit are very fickle, anything makes them change their opinion, but only when it is convenient to certain accounts.

So I really don't know if there will be a meeting tonight or on Friday but I am quite sure an agreement will be reached, Justin will get what he wants the soft fork people will get part of what they want and the majority will remain as is or maybe worse. I really have no idea about what to do, think anyone wants to buy a small Steemit account?