Steem Suggestion: Hard Fork For following accounts's funds
Recently two accounts, related to the bellyrub bot scammed thousands of dollars worth steem and then the steem was send to poloniex. But all the steem powered up in those accounts are still there. It will take 13 weeks to withdraw all the money.
The account with public owner key "STM7AftwozXuX6nf8gG4NUoXMwcDitGbQu4dZCZ9UYeKyn5FbrLz2" has 12000 steem in his account. That is quite a lot of steem if he is able to get away with that. These funds can be freezed by a hardfork and then sent to people who were scammed. If majority or all of witnesses agree to this, then it is possible.
Doing this will deter further scammers from doing something or attempting something like this on steem. The following changes are required.
To make it happen, the private owner key of both of the accounts will need to be changed. If all the witnesses agree to that, then this minor wallet address change will prevent the scammer from accessing his funds. The change is required on the wallets with the following two public owner keys.
STM7AftwozXuX6nf8gG4NUoXMwcDitGbQu4dZCZ9UYeKyn5FbrLz2
STM4twTQHH5H25oKcVtCWbgD8Hnzt1rdyvs4SX7xgMqc1cVCz1A1b
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This is a terrible idea that I hope is roundly rejected by everyone who reads this. I am sympathetic to @bellyrub scandal, not only because I oppose vote buying personally but because I know the typical activity of the person behind the new usage.
But calling for a state-style asset forfeiture is extremely irresponsible and goes against your argument for fairness. If in this case why not in another? And who decides and how? Since all is done here by investment the can someone else simply invest and demand that others' investment is robbed? Or if by numbers, can a sybil group then demand the same? No.
Like it or not, "buyer beware" was not followed here by those who were (allegedly?) scammed. You should not have trusted @bullyrub. An escrow should have be used, this basic stuff. So while I support and am sympathetic to the victims, there is no central authority to which you can appeal. Vote buying just isn't safe or, I believe, ethical.
I suggest you retract this statement.
I didn't give a single cent to bellyrub. I am angry because he whale downvoted all my posts with @freedom's SP.
Well, it is going to get rejected anyway.
@littleboy That's not going to happen.
It can easily be argued that it's the fault of the people who engaged in business with @zeartul that should have been more careful.
Appart from creating global and long lasting ambiguity, hardforking would socialize the lost on everyone because of a few negligent actors.
In the cryptoland I'm from we would not even HF if Steemit inc had lost access to their main account.
Actually, I know pretty well that this will be rejected. I wanted to post this idea via Utopian to primarily highlight that it is actually possible to reverse something like that.
Always good to entertain ideas for educational purposes.
That is not what is happening here.
So, what is happening here? xD
Actually, I was pretty mad at bellyrub for downvoting all my posts with 700000k SP. I lost around 90-100$ worth rewards. I wrote it in the mood of anger.
I actually did get about 80$ of @zeartul freezed in his steemfollower account.
Maybe those who got belly rubbed will learn the lesson to stop chasing money and to appreciate quality people and content.
No sympathy for them.
its very usefull post. thank you for sharing post
Interesting idea. The only alternative idea I had was to petition Poloniex, but this one seems potentially more viable and effective.
In my mind, it's not much different than the hard fork Ethereum made (though...that was for a much larger amount that was scammed.)
Large amount... like 1 000 000 times more and it was mainly the money of Ethereum founders and ETH will forever be discredited in my book because of that.
Ethereum Classic is still there. But no matter how many chains there are, most people will always follow the vitalik chain.
Thank you for your submission.
Yet the post does not properly fall under the category of suggestions.
Per the Utopian Rules:
"Suggestions are minor features/enhancements that you would like to have in an Open Source project."
So you can readjust your post so that it properly falls under this umbrella of a feature request.
Please edit your contribution to reapply for approval.
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[utopian-moderator]
Hi, mcfarhat. Good moderation. I updated the post with details about how this can be implemented.
Thank you, your post has been approved now
@littleboy I am a witness for Steem and I have to admit, I would not vote for this hardfork. Because it would set a bad precedent . And could "open a can of worms"
I am highly upset people were scammed. But doing a hard fork to take someones funds is not something we want to do or start.
I know that. I am writing this to let normies know that it is possible.
I am not entering the discussion but only writing in what regards Utopian. I am not sure what made @mcfarhat decide this suggestion should be accepted but in my opinion this is something you proposed to fix a very specific case and this is not really something you want to be implemented in the system by default. Therefore I can't be accepted in Utopian.
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[utopian-moderator]
A very good point. Now that I think of it, this post appears to not follow the following rule: