Honestly, as soon as I understood the ninjamine, I saw this coming. I note the community is the critical commodity on Steem, and everything the community isn't is open source.

Either Tron plays nice, or Steem forks out stake, and allows folks to buy in rather than allowing a ninjamine to centralize it again IMHO. I wouldn't cry if there was a cap on individual accounts that buy in, just to force whales to do the extra work to manage multiple accounts in order to wield whale stakes.

I'm not a dev, and can't speak to that ability with authority, but I am aware of folks that are that aren't fans of Tron, centralization, and perhaps have been hankering at the bit for a while to fork out ninjamines anyway. I reckon there's talent nominal to enable Steem to progress developmentally, given our current SPS mechanism, even without Steemit's devs or Tron's.

I could be full of shit too.

The critical things for me is that I will not KYC/AML - this is why I do not have a bank account at all, amongst other reasons - and I will not be interested in limits on speech or censoring content. I've objected to the censorship that was built in to Steemit from the outset with greying out posts, and vehemently objected to the #irredeemables censorship that targeted Hive account@fulltimegeek.

If there's not an app I can post on Steem with, I guess I'll give up and migrate to linux or summat. I am highly skeptical that Tron will support a censorship resistant platform, and expect I won't be able to transition to Tron, or Treem, or Ston, or whatever it ends as.

As long as there's a few folks that wanna hear me rant, I'll keep posting, but only if I can speak forthrightly and at my sole option. TBH, I don't even care about the money. I'll depart this world with all I need of that.

Thanks!