Disclaimer: this account is an alt-account for my main account @sigmajin (added 1-19-17 0848 pst)
Recently, there has been a good deal of controversy about user @ozchartart. The narrative that we have all heard is that OZ is just an innocent victim, caught in between the allegedly dishonest whales upvoting him and allegedly intolerant whales downvoting him.
This narrative is not entirely accurate. In this post, i intend to explain the real relationship that OZ has with those voting for him. I take no position on whether this relationship is necessarily unethical or harmful to the platform. However, i think honesty and transparency is important. The notion that ozchart is some random poster who got lucky (or through skill) attracted the attention of important patrons, and is now being punished for his success is simply not supported by facts.
@ozchartart also has a second account called @ozmaster. This account is actually older it was mined on april 7. You can see the first POW it found here. https://steemd.com/tx/09867b2f6b6823dda274ba5abc60742b972a4b5f
@ozmaster didn't do much besides mine until april 30th, on april 30th he started voting.
Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @b0y2k/she-is-called-the-worlds-most-flexible-woma… May 21 '16
5c1d8287Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @steemservices/announcing-steemitweeter-automatica… May 19 '16
765c919dOzmaster ozmaster upvote @team/world-chooses-steem May 14 '16
0cd413a3Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @riverhead/tlca-cruise-moab-2016 May 14 '16
9cf51dd0Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @clayop/lets-request-steem-to-poloniex May 14 '16
28e239d7Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @au1nethyb1/reducing-friction-for-critical-mass-ad… May 14 '16
0fbc73c1Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @blocktrades/-blocktrades-adds-support-for-directl… May 14 '16
f8566555Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @donaldtrump/lets-talk-politics May 14 '16
609f98ecOzmaster ozmaster upvote @nextgencrypto/steem-price-speculation May 14 '16
f25b90c8Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @nextgencrypto/request-for-proposal-steem-wordpres… May 14 '16
cd20d2eeOzmaster ozmaster upvote @kushed/steem-accounts-auction May 4 '16
1f668af6Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @danknugs/xj-13--hybrid May 3 '16
26d618c8Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @golovachlena/when-why-and-how-you-start-smoke-mar… May 3 '16
101c0637Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @danknugs/show-off-your-best-buds May 3 '16
a87549e9Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @danknugs/show-off-your-best-glass May 3 '16
a7d33d97Ozmaster ozmaster upvote @danknugs/cadillac-purple--indica Apr 30 '16
ab5cc8bfOzmaster ozmaster upvote @danknugs/category-for-cannabis-connoisseurs- Apr 30 '16
Of these 17 votes, 6 were for posts by people that appear to be completely independent of @berniesanders: @team, @riverhead, @clayop, @blocktrades, @au1nethyb1, and @golovachlena
The remaining 12 votes were for authors who either are known to be accounts belonging to @berniesanders (like @nextgencrypto [edited to remove @kushed]) or who appear to have been mined by @berniesanders
FOr example @danukings -- found his first POW on april 14th, and immediately transfered the proceeds to @nextgencrypto
@boy2k was mined on april 17th he was vested 45 steem by @justinbeiber (which was mined on april 13th, and transfered the proceeds to @nextgencrypto the very same day)
@ozmasters very first post was a bitcoin chart. He posted it on may 22 at 00:14:57. Within one minute, he had 3 upvotes, all of which were from mined accounts that transfered their mined steem to @nextgencrypto the day that they were mined.
@ozchartart was created on july 22 https://steemd.com/tx/22104b2171bc51849ea500cc9aff4a666f2c8d8d this account was not mined, but created by @aizensou using the "create account" function.
Now, you have to ask -- why would a user who already had a mining account ask someone else to use the create account function to make an additional account for him?
Days after the account was created, and before even making his first post, he set his voting proxy to @aizensou.
So who is @aizensou?
The account @aizensou was mined on april 16th. The very same day, it vested some of its mining proceeds and transfered the rest to @nextgencrypto.
@ozchartart has two accounts -- one of which was mined and voted for by 3 accounts (@kelly @steemservices and @steemservices1) mined by @nextgencrypto in less than a minute after making its very first post. The other was created by an account clearly mined by @nextgencrypto
I believe that it is 100% NGC's rightto upvote anything he wants, including posts he makes himself. However, others also have the right to downvote those posts. In fact, this is one of the very reasons the downvote exists. The evidence that these two accounts are, in fact, controlled by the same person is, while not absolutely dispostive, is compelling. And any debate about the justification for flagging these accounts ought t o take it into account.