- You're technically correct there. Yet, there are certain ways to do it properly, such as announcing the snapshot or forking date early enough so that people have time to adapt to new information and buy-sell on markets. Here, it didn't happen, the Koreans had their Steem locked up for 13 weeks and couldn't sell during the pre-fork pump. When you know your fork is not a minor thing, it's technically the same as wiping coins, especially if 99% of the userbase migrates afterwards. If it's not illegal, it should be, because it is very immoral no matter the past actions of the victims.
- Alrighty, 99% LOL
- Hive is the closest thing to the pre-fork steem. When you are saying it's a different community, you're making me laugh. It's the exact same users, governed by the same 20 'good old' hypocrites. It's also the same listings, and the economics is almost the same (minus the DAO abuse). The only difference is that a few people were cast-out for siding with the wrong side (large share of the chinese and korean community), or refusing to side and spreading the new leaders propaganda.
I'm not playing devil's advocate. "Hive is an airdrop" is what the devil would say. It's twisted and wrong on so many levels. The fact that it's the main argument for legitimating the large racist thievery that happened makes me want to puke.