Hi everyone!
It’s me, Tom @thedeltron, who’ll be leading the research and organisation.
First off, thanks so much for your warm response to our first post. We had some truly amazing feedback which you can check out here:
@filmmaking4hive/hello-hive-i-want-to
Summary - We’re looking to take the first steps in developing a feature-length film based off the events that transpired with Steamit, Justin Sun, and Hive, while showcasing the power of Web3 – with step one being the development and creation of a script.
We’ve been in contact with a number of amazing community members, who’ve already joined our discord server. Here we’ll be looking to hold the AMA’s and weekly consultations, and will put it out to the community in one of our following posts.
We want to continue to get feedback from the community about the best / most notable events of the Blockchain War. So, with that in mind, what events do you think we should cover?
If everyone could let us know if we have missed any events, want to reiterate their importance, or just want to let us know what they’d like to see in particular, please let us know in the comments.
Here is an article given to us by a number of the community members which we think details things really well:
https://decrypt.co/38050/steem-steemit-tron-justin-sun-cryptocurrency-war?amp=1
And here are some of the events we maybe basing things off that are already highlighted from our previous blog post:
@dynamicgreentk wrote
@ned crashing the price of Steem and then selling it off to Justin. Maybe also make mention of the Ned and @dan break up leading to Ned totally fumbling steem.
How Justin stole a crap load of money from our witnesses and whales.
How Steem eventually failed. Theycallmedan, if I am not mistaken, tracked Justin selling off his steem majority stake anyways.
@niallon11 wrote
The basis of the story is there for all to see. Justin gets sold a poison chalice from ned.
Doesn't know what he was getting into or what the community was about. A group of developers and free thinkers who had build a space for their own free expression that was then sold out from under them.
Back rooms deals with the large exchanges to subdue this group.
A fractured community united against a common enemy. It was such a mix of people that could quite easily spend the time fighting each other from every corner of the world but when required came together and stood fast.
Community meetings to set out the defence. A race to buy up chips in the game. One billionaire against thousands of small users.
The split to a new chain. Rapid development and smart thinking.
Stolen funds that were stolen again before being sent for return to the community.
Court cases pending and a history of deceit.
There is a good script in there somewhere.
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I would balance the views and not just tell it from our side. We are heavily biased and even Justin should have a side story where he got screwed before trying to screw us.
Witnesses, owners, exchanges, community members and dapps all had stake in the game.
It was quick but tense so the movie should reflect that with the ending all of us taking the risk and sticking together for a new and better project.
@emjoe wrote
a) The Evolution Of Hive - How it all started. (b) Hive As a global community, getting some scenes from different continents as to the positive vibes impact Hive has on humanity, highlighting some charitable contributions the Hive community has made. This will create more publicity and a global appeal.
@traciyork wrote
I think maybe starting before Justin even arrived, to give a little bit of background on Ned & Dan L and how the DAO came into existence would be good. Then (in brief) Dan's departure, Justin's arrival, the initial community & company (as those working for Stxxmit Inc found out at the same time as the rest of us) response. After that, maybe follow the timeline in the awesome
Thanks again guys for your amazing feedback in your first post, we will be releasing a couple more to get even more feedback from the community!
Again as a note, we are going to give 50% of the funds generated by the blog back to the DAO and the rest will go to fund the proposal.
If everyone could let us know if we have missed any events, want to reiterate their importance, or just want to let us know what they’d like to see in particular, please let us know in the comments.
A community member has also given us this list of points that it would be good if anyone had more info on or could expand on the story?
- Steem that was stolen,
- Korean community realising they had a deciding vote and their negotiations
- Steemit inc censorship of criticism
- Exchanges using custodial funds and if this means they are corruption or incompetence
- The battle to win back the chain
- Justin’s sock puppet accounts
- Redirect of stolen funds to Bitterex and the following lawsuit
- Corrections made to HIVE to prevent this from happening again
- The migration to HIVE, who stayed on Steem and who moved across
- The endless negotiations between witnesses Justin, Roy, Steemit inc and whales to save Steem and bring it back to a neutral chain
- Steemit inc team quitting after finding out about Justin’s plans (except for one member who kept things running)
- How Justin put out media announcing apps would migrate to Tron without asking the apps