Soft Fork 22.2 was maliciously structured, intending to freeze a handful of very targeted accounts and taking away their rights and possession to their owned asset, and may be deemed illegal and criminal.
Using the stake from exchanges to take over the blockchain is also a crime and illegal act if you don't get it. This is a stupid move from you Justin. Now we all understand that you are as bad as Ned.
After all this, I had hopes on steemit and stayed neutral on this. Now I'm skeptical about the future of this chain.
You guys open your big mouth to talk today and give an announcement. Where did you keep your azz on 13th when all this shit happened. I guess the announcement and all this should have been told to us when Ned met Justin in a bar to sell off Steemit.
I guess this one action will make people understand how bad you are. Such a shame!!
Today may not be the end of Steem but this place will be full of shit. Sad day for the community.
Did you know that we HAD a tool that could prevent that?
https://developers.steem.io/apidefinitions/#broadcast_ops_decline_voting_rights
It was explicitely designed for this reason: lock-out voting rights of accounts that should not be able to vote at all. Sounds like exchanges' virtual/technical accounts, right? I'm so sad that I accidentally learned about that operation only like a week ago.. [thanks to inertia186's https://github.com/steemit/steem-ruby/blob/f477239d45212fd2294f68364c32b80f91f42089/test/steem/broadcast_test.rb#L38 :) ]
It's hard not to agree with most of your points @bala41288
I wonder how things would look if soft fork wouldn't happen. The moment when this fork took place - I felt that our community declared open conflict with Justin and I figured that if I were him - I would do anything and everything to remove current witnesses from their positions. I really feel that we didn't give him any reason to avoid doing it.
Cheers, Piotr