The hands have been tipped.

No matter what happens, community wins.

What is the worst thing that can happen now?

@blocktrades will announce in advance which block they will fork from. The worst Tron devs can do at this point is force that promise to be a lie. If super-majority is achieved by the sockpuppets (and real puppets) and a successful hardfork is pushed that allows Steemit and the exchanges to powerdown before @blocktrades has a chance to fork, they'll have to rewind the chain to before the hardfork was pushed.

It's not really a big deal.

Just realize there is a good chance your coins will not be copied to Hive if Justin pushes a hardfork onto the original chain. The coins I'm referring to are the ones purchased after said speculative hardfork.

Does he even have the hardfork ready?

A lot of people think he does because he said so. I'm not so sure. Now that Jsun is adding real puppets to the top 20 witnesses, these real puppets actually do have demands. They want downvotes to be removed, for one. They also want witness voting to be 1:1. Have a bunch of inexperienced Java developers really had enough time to make this all happen? I highly doubt it.

Binance. @binance-hot

If you were wondering why Binance wasn't allowing withdrawals even though they had 1.7M liquid coins, now you know. Their first powerdown only unlocked 2.4M coins, yet I'm hearing reports that Jsun was able to withdraw 3.6M coins before anyone else. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Binance has been attacking us this whole time under the veil of false neutrality to maintain appearances. They are blatantly doing this shadow-banking transparently under the ruse of reasonable doubt.

There was no bribe.

There is a lot of speculation going around to how he purchased these coins without the price going up. The answer is that he didn't. Everyone is still assuming the 5M coins sent to the exchanges after the attack was a bribe. This is patently absurd. Those coins were under the control of Justin the whole time and he only transferred them to exchanges in the first place to provide much needed liquidity. He is now withdrawing those same funds.

It somewhat amazes me that people keep forgetting about these 5M coins because they just assume it was a bribe. There was no bribe. That is not how bribes are done. His relationship with the exchanges was strong enough to accomplish the attack on reputation alone. (Maybe not so much anymore.)

Reputation

Make no mistake, the money Jsun is going to lose on his Steemit Inc investment is worth far less than the value of his reputation loss within the space. Every exchange and big player in the space will think twice before agreeing to be associated with him. I'm not saying he's been ostracized yet, but this is certainly a permanent stain on his not-so outstanding record.

People love airdrops

Yet the value of Steem hasn't pump/dumped like we would normally expect, for obvious reasons. The risk factors involved in doubling down on Steem right now to get the airdrop are massive. Bitcoin is vulnerable. Steem is vulernable. Hell, the entire world economy is vulnerable.

Will we get a little pump when @blocktrades finally announces the fork date/time/block? Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell.

The #sct community seems to be willing to die on this hill that Steem is going to increase in value even if the entire community leaves. Woof. Good luck, friends. At this point I'm going to be surprised if @proxy.token delegates even get an airdrop.

Blocktrades

A lot of people were worried that there were going to be multiple forks that resulted from all this drama. Why? Even @blocktrades with 30+ devs seems like they barely have a handle on it. They can issue the airdrop any way they see fit and no one will be able to challenge it. There will be no other fork.

Steem to zero.

Lot of people out there saying they are going to use both chains. Yeah, that's all well and good, but how many people are willing to buy Steem (even at super cheap prices like 1 cent) after the fork? No one is talking about this. As far as I know, there are zero investors willing to put a penny more into the platform. This includes both Jsun and everyone that follows him.

I'm going to dump out of spite, and a lot of other people are as well. With no one left to buy the token, liquidity will spiral to sub 1 cent quite quickly. Justin's vulture capitalist power plays are coming to a head, and it looks like everyone loses because of it. I only hope that all the ruckus we've caused and all the publicity we've gotten is enough to make up for it. There are a lot of people in the cryptosphere that wouldn't even consider buying Steem because of how centralized the SINMS (Steemit inc ninjamined stake) made the platform. Perhaps new investors will be willing to enter this new distribution.

Is the decentralization gained by deleting the SINMS worth it? Before this whole debacle it obviously wasn't. Perhaps Sun has done us a favor in the long run by turning the SINMS into a 100% liability rather than entertain the hope that it would be used for development. After all, Ned was objectively an extremely ineffectual leader. Perhaps this is all for the best.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

With any luck, the worst is already over. We lost our chain but we can still defeat a dictator. We can show the world that branding and centralized leadership are not what make us strong, but rather community and actual consensus. Either way, this one will be carved in stone for all the history books to learn from.

Haven't you heard, Justin?

A full-house beats a flush. Have fun holding that empty bag with no community to dump it on.

To all the Tron zealots on Twitter:

"See!? We gave him his coins back!" https://twitter.com/ChrisWattsy/status/1237636623875145728

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