Dear @lukestokes

I like you. I really do. However Im finding it difficult to agree with you now. Right now we has steem, which was quite decentralized (for the first time ever) - because on one side you had group of witnesses working closely together and representing central power (under leadership of blocktrades). Additionally we had few witnesses/nodes run by Justin.

That was more decentralized than what we will have now:

• steem fully controlled by one person
• hive fully controlled by one group of people

None of it is remotly decentralized.

Yours, Piotr