I did hear a little of the after show on discord in msp waves, there was some talk about a forking of steem blockchain. Now one thing I really do not understand is that if it is the witnesses that decide the actions on steem block chain, (the changes), then all they have to do is not approve any hard fork the new tron/steemit team want, and just approve what the other developer teams put forth. It is not steem witnesses that will need to fork the chain it is the T/S combo that would need to do it. There are several independent applications and methods of accessing steem block chain for the social aspects.

People need to look at the history of both steemit.inc and of Tron and see how they handle their employees, Steemit laid off a lot of employees just before Christmas one year. No thought given to how that would make the ex-employees feel. I do not know how many people from other companies Tron acquired are still employed. Most mergers end with duplicate positions so someone has to go, and generally it is the new kid on the block.

A lot of talk has been made about not enough C++ developers at the other front door organizations, and that none of them have the knowledge on how to keep the chain running, I seriously doubt that take myself and I am no programmer. If that is truly and honestly the case then all the talk that was taking place about preparing for a split, a real fork of steem, is just that a lot of hot air and empty talk.

Either the witnesses control and protect the chain or they are nothing more than paid actors to keep the mob at bay. We will see what the future brings, I look forward to Monday night football style review of the weekend shows. I would urge people to just pretty much remain calm, and see what the coming week brings.

We saw the response during the last hard fork when something went wrong and effected Steemit, (no others), and then a quick fix with out any thought, with out any checking for other errors, was put in place to satisfy the needs of steemit.inc not the users. Then the aftermath of that quick, approved by the witnesses fix leading to another hardfork, and a few more days of steem chain not completely working as normal. The first fix was after all just a small fix in one number or so we were led to believe. It showed where the loyalties of the witnesses laid, in the pocket of steemit.inc. So it will be a very interesting thing to watch the fallout of all this.

Perhaps the fallout will be a new batch of witnesses.