How does a blockchain defending itself from attacks on it's value become prosecutable by the sec?
Steem is open source, not owned by any one entity.
What does it care about the rules of violent criminal gangs that force others to pay and obey?
Steem is a meme that cannot be put back in the bottle.
It is viral technology that cannot be stopped, except by the witnesses.
Not all of which are in the united snakes.
(I hear there may be a satellite that might let us rent space on it's servers.)
How do we open source the access to the keys?
Hard code a 85% witness, and 90% community, consensus mechanism that opens the keys to the code to allow changes?
By hard coding a mv influence cap, one that slowly rises over time, it takes the choice from any central parties.
There is no central party, only code.
They can try to punish coin holders, but c'mon, that isn't working for btc.