STEEM is a winner from the Netcoins contest regardless of its final position. You can't fight a Vote farm with another Vote farm.

It started with PACcoin who had a little community but soared to number one.

Netcoins took action it came down to fourth.

Then VERGE suddenly rose above STEEM, but it was punished too. STEEM was leading the whole time on final day.

Then came INS economy machine. INS casted around 15K vote in a single day.

It was weekend and Netcoins probably had no employees to take care of it.

A rarely functioning coin based on Moscow, Russia which has little social media presence cannot manage 20K Human vote.

I am 100% sure that it is a Vote Farm activity: https://www.votesfactory.com/buy-ip-votes/

So, one can buy 10000 votes with unique IP within 24-96 hrs along with 24 hours customer support. It will take only $1260 to win a $30K contest and name for coin.

At the end of day, we can't fight a vote farm with another vote farm. Both VERGE and PACCoin backed down from their strategy.

INS took advantages of the weekend break of Netcoins scrutiny.

STEEM is the real winner from the contest which mobilized a great campaign to cast 20K REAL user votes. Kudos to all Steemians.

Netcoins has promised to investigate the vote scam. Even if they decide that INS is the winner. Then who cares about Netcoin. Netcoin will be considered as another scam who lets scammers win.

Congratulations to all steemians to run a great campaign and letting the moral up. Thanks to @oracle-d, @ned, @partiko, @blocktrades, @sndbox, @acidyo @v4vapid and many other leaders to mobilize this moral boasting campaign.

Cheers!

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@riseofth
Cryptominer since 2013, occasional trader and tech blogger