Over the past weeks we have seen a lot of actions and a even more lack of action that speak much louder than words.

All in all, we have seen how DPoS is vulnerable to outright centralization, no matter if it be via collusion or simply one entity accumulating a large enough amount of tokens to overtake the governance.

Not to go over everything again and literally sum it up, we have seen that there are generally three groups of people out there:

i) Those that would stand up for the technology and protect it, no matter what the financial costs may be, for the good of the future.

ii) Those that are constantly weighing up the cost/benefits, or in this case, wanting the money and the power while portraying themselves as being people from the before mentioned group "i".

iii) Those that only care about the tokens/money, who couldn't care less about anything else and love the opportunities for the wham, bam thank you mam, types of pump and dump scams. Yes, "it is all about the money". Who cares about the world and people, all they want is a quick buck!

Now, although many may think that they belong to one of the three groups and that this post is about "you", well, it is. It is about all of us.

We keep talking the talk, but when it comes to walking the walk, then many seem to stagger, fall or plain and simple, sit down and not give a toot!

Have a look at the witness votes.

I mean, seriously, "it's all about the community", how many times have we heard that before!

Yet, even something as simple as changing ones witness votes to vote in the top20 + 10 others who were/are close enough to maybe get into the top 20, from all the former top50 witnesses, all we see is a lot of witness votes still lingering around for witnesses who are in no way, manner or form able to get into the top20.

Even with all the yelling and screaming and begging for people to go and unvote us who were under position 30 prior to the abuse of loopholes in DPoS, there are way toooo many people not doing that.

Now, some may think idk what all not, but really, think about it.

Do you lose anything by voting in the former top 30?

What have you got to lose?

Seriously.

5 to maybe 10 minutes of your time can make a real difference.

Even if nothing changes, your vote will put more pressure on those needing more STEEM to stake and vote for their fake one man totalitarian show of "ego" and a piss poor shot in the foot of an attempt to save face in his business circles.

Think about it.

Walk the walk.

Make it happen.

Let's show the world that none of us are up for sale, that we are willing and able to stand up to totalitarians, no matter what the end outcome may be.

As for the tech, don't stress, it is safe. As for the data, some of it is unfortunately still in the hands of one privately owned entity.

Lessons learned the hard way.

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Source: https://www.steemian.info

Yours truly,