I've spent the entire afternoon reading tweets about the hot topic of the last few days. And that is the Grand Theft that took place on Steem network a couple of days ago and affected 64 or 65 accounts if I am not mistaken.
Most of those accounts were really big stakeholders...and early mining accounts...and some witnesses.
And that is exactly why they were considered as a threat from Justin Sun. The bigger the stake one possesses the bigger the say they have, and that fucker doesn't want that. He wants servants...
@freedom lost about 11.5 mill Steem.
@theycallmedan, lost ~ 2 mill Steem.
@mottler which is inactive since forever lost another 2.5 mill.
@smooth and his alts also lost a lot.
@gtg...@themarkymark...@berniesanders ...and dozens more.
On his stupid mind these people are a threat...some of them weren't even making use f their witness voting right...
@mottler doesn't even know about the heist probably. As a matter of fact he mustn't be aware that he's holding 2.5 million HIVE at the moment either...
The most interesting part is that they somehow managed to convert 23.6 million of Steem Power to liquid Steem so that they can steal it.
What stops him from nullifying everyone who's on their way out of Steem? Nothing. He could steal each and everyone of us with a few clicks. all it takes it our names to be added on their list...
Besides...the code is there...the witnesses are himself...
I keep wondering what would have happened if:
The "white knight" could have done a better job...like transfer all 23 mill Steem to his account and then ask from those 65 accounts to send him their Steem wallet addresses and send the Steem via the exchange, instead of sending it to Bittrex...His intention wasn't to steal it...he could have done that easily...
Just brainstorming here...
I am pretty sure that exchanges are in a shitty situation. Especially Bittrex.
That's a comment I dropped earlier to @brianoflondon.
I don't even know if there's a cold wallet for Steem, one that this "White Knight" could have used to store the stolen funds and redistribute it to their rightful owners later on.
That's IF this Knight isn't Justin himself or a member of his gang of course...
In any case CZ was right imo. If the exchanges don't support the fork hundreds of millions of Steem will be lost forever.
What a mess...
I don't really know what @bittrex will do next. Most likely they will send the funds back to @community321 account when Justin re enables transactions for this account.
One thing is for sure...that exchanges are in deep shit because at some point real world laws will be applied...
Who said that fighting for decentralization would be an easy job? Not even close...
