That would be interesting, if it wasn't a re-write of the history of what actually happened: I originally left this post alone when it just had his own self-vote and anyone could read it. I only downvoted it "after" he upvoted it with bots for nearly $200 (by spending $200 to do so).

hey it's game-theory, I saw the post after 4hours, possibly it was already a pre-thought to upvote it by bots to match both your votes and Bernie's. Could be argued he was waiting for you, but I do see your point (Still if you wrote in reply to say you won't down vote since he is only using his own VP before the upvote bots bidded or activated then you have 100% proof), either way, as you know a bot has a 2.4hour delay, so maybe bernie posted, got hungry, had a long lunch, then took a long shite (possibly realized you might downvote while he was on the throne), came back to use upvote bots to match your current VP and 2+hours delay later you saw the post a 2nd time.

And, no, there was no significant exhaustion of my voting power as a result of bernie's antics as you claim:

Correct, I didn't put down only 100% downvote for that day, my bad for not adding specifics. I would change it below...but honestly I'm too complacent to do so, your efforts of restrain and fair downvoting is noted (And Honored....heck we all love & upvoted @drakos for downvoting Bernie too...see below).

The point is, $150+ less upvote say given exclusive vote to just 1 person (favorite writer - repeatedly high upvoted isn't really optimal) isn't much drain as compared to you not voting at all yesterday.....either way, all results in saving the reward pool for everyone else and growing the greater value of Steem.

I actually like it that you downvoted the abuse of the bot upvote (respects).....I am not arguing that point, but strangely the participation by drawing you or by your ethics, either way is magical for all of us to see, which ironically beneficial to all included, even you.

BTW. Glad to hear you're actively making curation, BUT, please feel free to downvote anyone else you find abusing the bots with $150, $100, heck even $50 bots upvotes from delegated VP. You have our collective respects and continual minnow's support for that.

P.S. I just used your service to transfers thousands at a total cost of $100-$150 per transfer (I can accept the 0.5%-1% exchange fees....business has to run, but I might stop using bitcoin to buy Steem soon and use some other coin with way less blockchain transfer cost), will do more transfer again. What coin/s do you recommend is the cheapest to use to buy Steem?

P.S.S. Speed of transfer at @blocktrades to Steem is superb. Thanks again for the service.