As the steem churns,...

Man, those folks are something.

If the wheels haven't come off, it's not for lack of trying.

Now they froze the stake of folks that steem wouldn't exist without.
Without Hive account@blocktrades enabling easy steem conversions most of us would have given up long ago.
Who plays this game for free?

The nice thing about hive is that we will now get more say in matters than we did on steem.
Hive account@ned ruled that roost, and now Justin rules it from behind the curtain.

However, steem had more problems than just stinc.
It had a circle of accounts that sucked up the majority of the pool, day after day.
Some kept it for themselves, some tried spreading the love, but only to those accounts meeting with their approval.
If you weren't a sycophant of the power players you could forget getting a vote.

Those people are now ruling on hive.
They eat the majority of the pool, and thereby a controlling interest in the platform.

I don't think outsiders will like the look of that.
Time will tell us.

Get your meme on, dear reader.
They are acceptable content, now.
At least, they are outside the old aristocracy.