So this is just my 1 Steem on the matter that kinda threw the entire Steem community off her tracks.
I have been on Steem for a while and have been able to get some good benefit by reason of how awesome the community is and I will hate for it to be misused by some individual who seem to possess more coins than thinking caps.
Let me blame someone.
Ned is a selfish prick, yeah I said it. He is and has been for as long as we all know and he takes delight in flexing his muscles maybe because he thinks he is cool to be in boy band.
Ned betrayed the community he joined hands in building and running away after selling what rightfully belongs to a community to someone else with no clue of what true community is about.
Also, the attitude if never wanting to be told they truth still is with him as the minute he was being questioned of his intentions while on his discord server some days ago, he started muting the people who "dared" to ask him questions.
You cannot sell a community that is as strong as what we have here on Steem(It).
So, there goes my blame game.
Welcome to Steemit Justin.
Steem is a Blockchain and in that blockchain exists Steemit Inc which is one of first interfaces designed to interact with the blockchain and that means, no one can buy the blockchain or own it because, it belongs to the community.
Take a look at the various work being done on the Steem blockchain and you will see these are done out if love and a hope to keep the world turning in a good manner.
I know about #TRX, #Win and #BTT and all these 3 added up together still cannot be as valuable as Steem or SBD.
So that should have at least made you see that this just more than just a project for instant profiting but one for a lifetime of good deeds birthing profits into the future.
Sock Puppets and witnesses.
You went too far by this move to install your puppets and take control of a community of free minded individuals.
You also went really far and wrong to call well meaning, hard working, respectable and decent individuals "hackers." How dare you @Justinsunsteemit? How dare you?
I really think you should and must make a retraction and apologize to these individuals and the entire Steemit Community because that there is a deformation of character and should not be taken lightly.
Authoritarian rule is not something that people will like to be a part of.
Steemit is here to stay and it belongs to the community. No one one man should be allows such power to mess with decent people.
Also, using exchanges to wreck havoc on Steem was a bad move.
Huobi is next!
Steemit is getting stronger get and will be over this weak attempt it hijack the people's mandate.
God bless Steem, Steemit and the awesome people that make it what it is and will be.