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Yeah, definitely. All witnesses combined are not even a fraction as powerful or influential as Justin. In fact, outside of Blocktrades, I can't think of any that have any lasting entrepreneurial experience in the industry. Still, for witnesses, they are probably going to lose their jobs eventually anyway*, so might as well try and get their own thing going instead.

*As of now, the long term plan still seems to be Steem merging with Tron, and Justin already has a cabal of witnesses (superdelegates, same thing) set up there. Of course, there could be compromises found, such as keep Steem as a Layer 2 or sidechain for Tron etc. We shall see how things play out over the coming months/years.