Asset Creation Disabled By Committee for Several Days to Address a Bug

A bug was identified to occur when paying for the creation of an asset with something other than BTS. Details about the bug and its hypothetical impact (which was never utilized) can be found in the following reports.

Issue
Short-term fix
Intermediate fix and re-activation of Asset Creation

My compliments to the following people:

• @abit for once again for first identifying a flaw
• Dev team for coordinating the fix and testing it out on the test network
• BitShares Committee for quickly implementing the short-term fix to ensure that the bug was not exploited after the initial revelation