It has been proven that Steem was a vile rigged pyramid scheme coin and yet Shelby gladly participated and was not long ago posting Steem links around the forum here.. for profit $$$
I was able to cash out ~$6000 of earnings from blogging on Steem (which has sustained me during this years when I was ill with disseminated Tuberculosis and didn't even know which illness I had), which also dovetailed with my research about decentralization. So it was very productive use of my time. Also I still hold 5421 STEEM as a hedge against if Steem actually got their head-out-of-their-ass and promoted their scaling advantages (which are superior to both Dash and Ethereum).
You are still on ignore (not because I dislike you as a human being actually you are often cordial, but because you violated all your own principles by going easy on Dash recently and because you waste my very scarce time with the frequent defense against your ad hominem attacks about actions, motives, etc ... so it is more productive if I don't even know what you are writing about me), but I saw someone quoted your comment in another thread, where you made this same accusation against me.
Most of us are here for a combination of profit and trying to appeal to our idealism about decentralization. Most of us are losing some of our enthusiasm about whether decentralization can really be obtained. But
the Internet should be our inspirational example, that maybe it can be achieved. The YUGE distinction is that the Internet is not a total ordering and consensus is. So that is where the centralization always creeps in (via economies-of-scale).
I am not just working on decentralization of consensus systems. My work also includes improvements to the JavaScript ecosystem designing a new transpiler for an improved mainstream programming language. I continue to try to generate value for humanity and earn a living while doing so. I reject your Communism.
