Tommy Robinson & Roman Abramovich: A bad week for the UK

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In mid-February 2020 Justin Sun acquired the shares in Steemit Inc and proceeded centralise the blockchain under his control, improperly using Steemit's founders stake (intended for development and decentralisation of the blockchain) and tricking exchanges into initially supporting his power grab.

After extensive efforts to resolve the dispute failed, the community revolted and formed a new, fully decentralised blockchain - Hive - without the pernicious influence of Justin Sun and his minions.
Because of Open Source licensing, Hive was legally able to duplicate all the code and content on Steem.
The vast majority of the community and decentralised applications and projects moved to Hive and Hive was listed on many cryptocurrency exchanges without having to pay the normal listing fees.

On 19 May 2020, a Steem hard fork (0.23) designed to steal the Steem from 65 accounts associated with creating Hive became public.
My position on this hard fork can be found here: https://peakd.com/hf23/@brianoflondon/letter-to-exchanges-do-not-run-steem-hard-fork-23-hf-0-23-0

This was the final straw for my involvement with Steem.

I will now post exclusively on Hive at https://peakd.com/@apshamilton/posts
All my old Steem content can also be found on Hive.

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This week saw the UK's image as a stable, investor friendly country with Rule of Law take two huge hits.

First the jarring injustice of seeing a reporter arrested outside a Court and summarily gaoled for 13 months without access to his lawyer and a gag order placed on the case. See https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-31/stefan-molyneux-war-tommy-robinson

Second, the UK's decision to make it difficult for Billionaires to visit the UK (by requiring all sorts of intrusive questions about the source of their wealth to get a visa).
Roman Abramovich is not the first and will not be the last billionaire to abandon the UK and domicile themselves in more friendly countries. See https://www.globes.co.il/en/article-the-uk-has-smug-assumptions-about-roman-abramovich-1001238722

In the post Brexit era the UK should be doing everything to play to its perceived strengths as a stable, investor friendly country with an attractive legal system.
Instead, its doing its best to destroy this image and push investors away!