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yes its to prevent the selling of steem, since justin wants to run away with the 70 million steem promised to the steem community. just now in the steem townhall they i think mentioned something about steem exchange being blocked by witnesses now...

https://steemd.com/@bittrex actually bittrex still seems to be happily trading

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