To summarize this episode on Steem Drama;
Steem Top 20 Witness aka "Hackers" by Steemit Inc freeze up steem stake of the Steemit Inc which they called ninja-mined stake with soft-fork 22.2 because they didn't get enough communication with Steemit Inc new administration regarding assurance of not using this stake to vote for witnesses and take over the steem blockchain governance.
Justin Tron had give his statement in AMA that he will not doing anything against community willingness. But, some steemian reported that they saw potential fake news about token swap, take over, no more steem kind of impression from Tron Leo marketing video,also from not so clear marketing post on Tron Foundation official twitter. This made Top 20 Witness leary of Justin Sun intention and start to FUD and decide to proceed with soft fork and no need of waiting any communication from Justin Sun. This move made Justin Sun feel insulted as no trust built in the partnership so he went to craft his marketing drama with the help of friend from exchanges like Binance and Huobi. His reason is because Top 20 Witness hacked his stake in steemit inc by freezed it with soft-fork. He replaced the Top 20 witness with his own witness and unfreeze his stake.
Currently former Top 20 witness and steem users working hard voting for their former top 20.
Lesson I learned so far from this situation;
- Trust and solid two way communication is vital to build any partnership in business, or else both side will speculate and FUD and do more damage to the relationship if not handle right away.
- Not your key, not your crypto. When my crypto are kept in exchange, I have no power over it anymore because its not in my private key storage.
My own conspiracy theory;
When Justin Sun master of marketing crafting his drama, he really making sure it shaking the whole cryptocurrency world with his move.
Never before Steem steal ATTENTION of other crypto creators and project also publications steadily in time. Its true, Steem need an exposure, and now its happening. Everyone playing their part very well, as genuine as possible because the master craft it to look like so.
People like drama, story, and gossiping controversy. Most people will not pay much attention to something that boring and normal/good type of things/drama. This time Steem Drama with endless episodes to come and probably more Seasons to come deserve to be on the top Ranking in Cryptocurrency Drama of The Year. I'm wondering do they have an award for the most controversial crypto drama of the year?