Look, I know the vast majority of you get this. But I'm not satisfied with the number of people entertaining this absolute BS as if it's even in the realm of reality or should be taken even in the slightest bit seriously.
I'm going to make this as simple as I possibly can for people.
You've all used computers before. You know every application has "Save" and "Save As...". Save saves your current changes and after a save you still have only one file. Save As... assuming you use a new name will save a new file, even if there are no changes, you will still have two files. Two locations. Two pieces of individual information.
With open source software anyone at anytime can create a fork. I could go back to HF16 and start a new chain from there. I could fork the code right now and send all the tokens to myself. I could fork the code and send an equal amount of tokens to everyone. In all these cases, I wouldn't be "stealing" anything from anyone because I'm creating something new. No one bought my Midlet Coin. Since it's based on the blockchain where you have an account, if I chose not to edit that data, maybe you have been GIVEN some new tokens, or not. Maybe you wouldn't. Especially if you're a lying, chain destroying, psychopath. In this case, I may not want you having any influence on the new chain I created.
Blockchains are databases. They are also ledgers, meaning information is only added to them. They are decentralized in that multiple people all around the world are running the same database.
A Non-Contentious Hard Fork(upgrade) is when the software that is the blockchain changes and all the decentralized nodes running that software all update to the new version.
In a Contentious Hard Fork(Chain Split) Some people decide to run a NEW branch of the code, creating a NEW, SEPARATE, INDIVIDUAL database, which also in the case of Cryptocurrencies, creates a NEW asset.
This is what Hive is. It is a NEW asset(obviously).
The only reason this ridiculous narrative is floating around is because Hive is VALUABLE. If I created Midlet Coin or Equality Coin, they probably wouldn't get much support. Money is a belief system. It has value because people decide it has value and people's evaluation about how valuable it is is something changing constantly.
Nobody cared about not being airdropped Whaleshares. Was the PAL claimdrop theft? What about the LEO airdrop that was based on the PAL airdrop? WTH? How many times have I been robbed over the years???
Please do not entertain this nonsense and call it out for what it is. I know some people might be genuinely confused, and feel free to educate them. But I guarantee, the folks from Steem understand what I've stated here. They are not confused. They are criminals trying to obfuscate and muddy the waters of their crime.
The latest Steem HF is theft. Plain and simple. If Justin Sun wanted to respect people property, but also wanted to purge all the people he deems toxic, he could have made a NEW token, and distributed THAT on Steemit.com. Then he could disempower the whales on his new asset, have a new, arguably better distribution, minus of course, his controlling stake, which a surprising amount of people don't seem to care about anyway though. Old Steem would be abandoned and people could dump it freely letting the free market decide it's value.
When the first person BUYS a token. If you then take that token from them, you are taking their property, but no one is ENTITLED to a new asset that you create. That's pretty easy to grasp isn't it?
Anyway, I'm annoyed to be writing this. I feel like I'm probably in a bubble and everyone already knows this, but on Twitter especially and recently even here on Hive I'm seeing this, so I felt this was necessary.
Enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day USA peeps. Catch you all in the next post.