Appreciate your position but I have no faith in Tron doing anything except chewing up the juicy bits of STEEM blockchain and then spitting out the gristle left over for the maggots to munch on.

Appreciate your stance Tim, as well as the overall consensus being what it is.

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voted for you just because you were ready to stand to what you believe. i am not sure where i stand on this, but the thing i know is that his lack of communication is disrespectful to the steem community.  

Has there been any discussion about simply decreasing the number of witness votes per account? I feel a hardfork of that nature would be the simplest way to immediately decentralize Steem further and lift undue restrictions on the Steemit Inc. stake.

Reading this, I just found my fourth witness to vote for. Since I joined Steem(it) I have been reading messages and looking for people who are worthy witnesses. Somebody who dares to challenge the common opinion and stands up for his opinion is somebody who will help to challenge and with that impact the balance of Power. My vote is yours. And to the rest of the community I would urge you to give Justin a chance. To get this platform into mainstream, it should become easier to familiarize yourself with it.

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Thanks for this communication Tim, have always respected your views. I am surprised by the news contained within this post, I think it is a very rash decision by other witnesses.

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This is a very reasonable and valid position, but are you not afraid of the decision that could be made by the account owner, which in fact is different, and maybe don't want to respect the social contract made by Ned about those accounts?

You earned a solid long-standing witness vote from me reading this man.

Good standing up, Tim.

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I don't agree with this either.

Saya sudah mempercayakan suara saya kepada anda sebagai seorang witness sudah sejak tahun akhir tahun 2016. Saya berharap agar anda bisa mewakili suara saya yaitu tetap mempertahankan blockchain Steem dalam keadaan independen dan desentralisasi.

Secara garis besar saya setuju dengan apa yang  anda gagas dan tulis di sini, dan saya sangat menghargai itu, semoga para witness lainnya bisa mengikuti langkah anda.

Secara garis besar, saya memahami pemikiran anda dan saya juga sependapat, bagaimanapun juga saya tetap taruh dan percayakan harapan saya kepada anda. 

<i>I have entrusted my voice to you as a witness since the end of 2016. I hope that you can represent my voice, which is to keep the Steem blockchain in an independent and decentralized state.

Broadly speaking, I agree with what you have in mind and write here, and I really appreciate it, hopefully the other witnesses can follow your lead.

I general, I understand your thoughts and I also agree, however I still put and trust my hopes to you.</i>

> Regardless of the messy situation that got us here, and the very real security risk that Tron currently poses to our chain - I see them as a stakeholder who acquired their stake through a legitimate over-the-counter purchase, and I am not OK forcing restrictions on the way a stakeholder uses their stake.

I agree, especially when this is no different to a bank freezing the accounts of a client because they don't like what they do with their money, or the type of legitimate business activity they conduct. 

(There's many examples of Australian banks shutting down the commerical / business acounts of Australian cryptocurrency exchanges), and this "Freezing of the funds" which the super majority has agreed to amounts to exactly this type of behaviour, and in my view cannot be supported on a blockchain that is by definition meant to be for the use of all stakeholders and their stake.

I agree and hope we can work with Tron like you said.

Well said, I agree with you on most counts. Full respect for sticking with your core principles, it must take plenty courage for a top witness to go against the popular vote.

>I see them as a stakeholder who acquired their stake through a legitimate over-the-counter purchase, and I am not OK forcing restrictions on the way a stakeholder uses their stake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods

Figure out the analogy. Theres nothing legitimate about the ninjamine stake. It remains as it was. 

Thank you for sticking to your principles, Tim. This was one of the hardest decisions I've had to make as a witness. Depending on how the owner of the property responds, I will adjust accordingly. Ultimately, to me, this is property we're talking about. We've acknowledged a lien in place on that property enforced by social contract. That may not sound like much (it's certainly not legally binding, as far as I know), but when it comes to blockchains, consensus is everything.

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I think it's time to admit that dPOS is not decentralized. There are witnesses which make decisions, and people who vote those witnesses. 

It is like politics. If the leaders (witnesses) make a decision with consensus then it is by design a good one, a decentralized one. 

If you are looking for decentralization like Bitcoin's, you're not going to find it in a dPOS blockchain.

Is that bad? I don't think so. I believe it's a great governance model.