Time to vote for witnesses

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I've been closely following the situation on our blockchain since Justin Sun acquired Steemit Inc on the 14th of February. I can't say that I was surprised with the acquisition as this is what regularly happen in the business world. I had been through many acquisitions in my role at a corporate office of a a multi billion company.

I've learned that at times like this, I personally prefer to gather information, wait and see what happens. But I just can't do it this time. Justin Sun started to post misleading information and the community was worried that he would attempt to take over the blockchain. At the beginning, I couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. I didn't want to believe that he would make such a hostile move against this community. And here we are, not even a month later.

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I supported witnesses in their decision to run the SF on the 22nd of February. All they wanted was to protect the blockchain from using the ninja mined stake to vote for the witnesses until both sides understood each other's position better. I was expecting some response from Justin Sun, but I didn't know exactly how far he would go. At the end, it didn't take long for him to respond and yesterday we saw that it's not that difficult to centralize a decentralized platform.

I was shocked that it happened. I couldn't believe that the exchanges supported him with the liquid Steem that they had staked. This just confirmed that it was a good decision not to keep any liquid Steem on the exchanges. I know that today we saw: 'Not your keys, not your Steem/crypto' so many times but I've heard it a few years ago already and removed everything I had on binance.

He managed to replace our 20 top witnesses with his own. I've always admired the power of this community and I truly believe that we can change this. How can we do it? We can use our votes for the witnesses who were previously in Top 20 (from the rank 21 down). I have already updated my list. If you haven't updated yours, go and do so. It doesn't matter that you don't have a big fat wallet, you can still make a difference. Every vote matters right now!

This might be just a symbolic move for you and you can change the witnesses as soon as the situation is stabilized (whatever this may mean) but right now we should stand together for our community and win the blockchain back.

You can vote for your witnesses here: Source

I know that you might be fed up with this kind of posts today but it is important that we talk about it. There might be some people who haven't seen any of those posts yet and they might not understand the importance of their witness votes, so let's spread the word. Together we can!

Cheers!

Martina

PS: I've used the logo from @aggroed's post.



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Díky, že ses taky přidala se svou výzvou :) Takhle jednotní a silní jsme snad ještě nikdy nebyli :) Sun tohle nemůže vyhrát...

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Gotta say this is a really nasty move by Sun and I’m on it too. Doing my part and spreading the word! Hopefully we get it back :)

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Congratulations @delishtreats! You received a personal award!

Thank you for the witness votes you made to support your Steem community and for keeping the Steem blockchain decentralized

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Congratulations @delishtreats! You received a personal award!

Look's like you do not like Justin. Did you really downvote him?

You can view your badges on your Steem Board and compare to others on the Steem Ranking

Do not miss the last post from @steemitboard:

Downvote challenge - Add up to 3 funny badges to your board
Use your witness votes and get the Community Badge
Vote for @Steemitboard as a witness to get one more award and increased upvotes!
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