Step 1: Create a powerful dApp/interface for Tron and Steem
If there's something that we can't doubt, it's that Justin Sun has the ability to run successful businesses. Creating a great social-network interface for Steem would be a piece of cake, there are already many to take from (Busy, Steemit, Steempeak) and he has DLive devs and many more to simply assign to the project.
Step 2: Sabotage Steem witnesses
Through a long process of waiting, attacking, convincing and playing image games, Justin could destroy Steem's viability using many strategies that have already been discussed.
Possibilities off the top of my head:
- Creating a parallel 20 witnesses and pumping them to the top.
- Doing counter-propaganda
- Damaging each witness separately or creating unfortunate circumstances to disincentivise people.
- Creating "temporary measures" that would be intended to destabilise the system.
Before you think this would not be in his interest, read through the next step.
Step 3: Launch para-Steem on Tron network
One common pro-Justin view is that he would not profit from creating a para-Steem because he holds a lot of our Steem. However, if he creates his own para-Steem, he can own as much Steem on that parallel blockchain... If he makes it so that this Steem has the same value, he has earned.
Steem would have held its ground before the sabotage, but now there is a lot of incentive to jump ship. Tron would smoothly absorb Steem and keep an enormous userbase like when DLive broke ties with Steem.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit
There would be a parallel Steem fork running by the original witnesses, but the money to run the miners would be less than the Steem they would potentially make by keeping them online. This would force the driest bear market there has been on the ecosystem.