Starting Over

In the last three months, I have gone through a divorce. It was coming pretty unexpectedly, for both of us. My ex-wife and I have reached a mutual agreement amicably because we both tried to embrace change.

I am therefore moving my coffee cup from my home near Zurich to my sailboat. Given travel restrictions, it unclear whether I am allowed to travel from Switzerland across Germany into Holland where my boat is. Even though I feel that by driving alone in my car I will not put myself or anyone else in danger, I am at the mercy of border control officers.

Anyways, I am entering a new phase both in my life and, coincidently, here on Hive.

Sanctity of Private Property vs. Sanctity of Verbal Agreements

I will continue posting here on Hive and leave Steem behind. I feel that this is no perfect choice, either. Justin complained that the community witnesses violated the sanctity of property. The community witnesses complained that Justin was using ninja-mined tokens, that supposedly are reserved for development only, to vote.

In the absence of a court system that decides which of the violations weighs heavier, the blockchain split into two. I have chosen Hive, however, I feel that the Hive team (aka consensus witnesses) might just as well run the backend on a distributed Oracle database as I need to trust them anyways.

To me, this fork showed the outer limits of DPOS and I will no longer entrust larger sums on any DPOS blockchain.