Regarding Ned and other big players. I think it is of very little significance in any direction.

Simple example: You can make the argument that they sold their stake and as such, they are somewhat abandoning the platform, which can result in what? Less trustworthiness ? Them loosing monetary interests and thus executing poorly on their job? (This was exactly the point of some bad news about LTC and they attributed the selloff to the drop in price)

Looking back, such massive correction has been long overdue and it was only healthy.

The other way could be: It simply makes the service/platform/project or what have you more decentralised. Must be a good thing. Right? ... Right?

Except it isn't. Some platforms (BitShares for example) are loosing traction exactly because of their decentralised nature. The community simply can not agree on how to proceed. If there is still anyone left to actually vote. Not to mention the problems EOS seemed to run into with very low turnover of votes in the system.

I could go on and on, but I think you can easily see we'd be here for a long time.

Granted, my beliefs might be somewhat distorted, as I do believe what Haejin taught us - news will arrive to justify the forecast, not the other way around. First there is the movement and the news come after. That is what has proved to me time and time again.

Regarding other things. I am happy that life is being good to you. I occasionally come here to see what's brewin' and I'm happy to hear about new people coming to the platform.

Take care.