My Totally not important view of this situation that no one will read or care about it

Meeting between Justin Sun, Korean Stakeholders, Steem Witnesses and Steem Foundation 12/03/2020

Disclaimer (because we seen people think it is important)

This rant is coming from a noob in the blockchain technology. I only own steem (and a small bit of satoshis), i am not a trader, not speculating on the market... I own steem, because i use it every day, i am not hodling it because i think tomorrow i can sell it, i do it because i can use it for voting, curation rewards... And i don't see steem as a speculative coin used for pumps and dumps. It is a place for Real people.

What i learned from this last meeting ant prior talks:

Justin Sun knows absolutely nothing about how this blockchain and that is perfectly fine, but then he should state that or not answer questions about powerdown times or downvotes.

All that are against downvotes, check this account https://steempeak.com/@indicate go to some older posts and load the comments. If you are ok with that, then we don't need downvotes, but also that steem blockchain does not need me. Will there be abuse of downvotes, of course, because we all deal with real people here.

Powerdown time I think that powering up (staking) i a voluntarily action that gives you some benefits. You don't have to do it if you don't want to. If you want to trade, speculate, pump and dump, don't stake. you should not be able to pump and dump and stake at the "same time". Powering up is a will to show that you are not here just to cash out, you are here to invest in your account and invest in community.

Steem is, and has a great opportunity to be a gateway for "normal" people to crypto. It is an opportunity to learn crypto by talking to people and earn some of it in that process. And we can all agree that people have no idea how all these keys, passwords... work and are a bit lost about how important keys are. Every day we hear talks about people losing their Keys, (someone in that meeting said "1000 accounts currently under hacker control from phishing") and short powerdowns would make those accounts lose all their steem before they even know they are hacked. Some would say "Not your keys not your crypto" but "normies" would than say "fuck your keys and your crypto, i will stick to my cash". And we do want to make this widely adopted, no? We could argue that there are other ways to make it more secure, but why not make people invested and secure?

Justin Sun: First of all, it is not sock puppet. Lots of community vote voted for it.

Please someone share a link with the numbers, i can't find it, i am sure he is not lying.

EDIT:

@bashadow shared a link in the comments, and if you rank witnesses by accounts voting for them first sock puppet witness is ranked at number 161

As for the witness side of this talk, some answers were not to the point, some explained really well. The main problem is that 20-30 of them can't get a consensus of what is the minimum they/we are ready to accept in all this craziness. And that is probably a good think in normal circumstances but in this case we need to know what is the minimum so we can move forward.