It's been an interesting 24 hours since I published the last article, to say the least. From YouTube Vlogs to Reddit articles, several people have expressed their opinions about my findings of eos.store. As a result of this public interest, the block producer decided they should issue a press release to "set the record straight".
In the following, I will dissect their statement in order to arrive at a conclusion of what they're "really" saying:
Claim #1: "No formal announcement of the [blacklist] could be found."
Q: If true, why were you the ONLY block producer that didn't update their records? Certainly, other block producers should have failed to do so if the blacklist was truly nowhere to be found.
Claim #2: The information of these frozen accounts did not appear in [the] following channels...
Q: Immediately after stating that, you then say: "Only in Keybase and EOS 911 could you find this information."
If the information COULD BE FOUND in Keybase and EOS 911, why didn't you find it?!
Now for the moment you've been waiting for where what one says doesn't always guarantee what one means.
When I was a kid playing in the front yard with a buddy, every once in a while my mother would call me into the house and surprise me. She'd go into the freezer and pull out two popsicles, one for my friend and I. She got pleasure by allowing me to do the honors of delivering the treat to my friend. What she was doing, unknowingly to me, was teaching me a valuable life lesson. Many times these popsicles came in different flavors. I loved the cherry ones the best, but sometimes so did my guest. The old 'hold one behind your back and only give your buddy one option' trick didn't work well most of the time. Sometimes both popsicles behind your back having him pick which hand "the good one" is in worked, but many times it didn't and left an unsettling after-thought to me when I knew, and he didn't know, that I switched the popsicles behind my back guaranteeing myself to get the one I wanted regardless of which hand he picked. As I grew a little older, I realized the right thing to do for a guest is to offer him the two choices and accept that he probably likes cherry just as much as I do, and that's ok.
You can imagine the adulation I had the first time I read this. I thought, It really is a possibility to share your voice which can influence how block producers conduct themselves in an integrity-filled manner, using fact-based evidence. It only took 5 minutes before I realize that idea was completely wrong, at least in regards to eos.store.
In the following, I present to you what I like to call the popsicle test:
As the eos.store press release caught wind, several people started giving their opinions of it. One thoughtful and wise opinion came from Dan Larimer, the brains behind EOS.io. With representatives from eos.store participating in the conversation, Mr. Larimer suggested:
Kevin Ross, representing EOSNewYork, a block producer I respect and advocate for, suggested:
My response was simple and to the point:
Simon, from eos.store, suggested the answer to my question, which was "when did they make the victim whole?", could be found by reading their press release:
I replied by highlighting a section of the press release:
But I'm certain you just led me to believe that you paid?:
At this point, I'm starting to get a little ticked because double-talk is a huge pet-peeve of mine, but before I'm able to let eos.store "have it", Dan again offers reasonable advice to a fully grown man that should be able to make this very basic decision on his own......and then I let them have it.
"Can we get a janitor in here ASAP!":
Simon Says (dad joke):
Ole' Dan starts busting balls:
...and then I decided to:
But it's not our fault:
Worse than sad. Downright pathetic:
Really? You think it's our fault? Duhh:
After this, Simon and his eos.store prodigy's left the room. So, let me know your thoughts below. Do you think eos.store will do the right thing? Will the EOS community do the right thing using their votes? What do you believe the right thing to do is? They're definitely listening. After my article last night, eos.store climbed in a matter of hours from #20 to #10 position. Heck, do you think I did the right thing? Let me know. Until next time.
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