Did someone hack the account of Steemit's CEO (Ned Scott)?
A lot of people in the Steemit community are upset and want to know why Steemit CEO @Ned powered down 1,800,341.511 Steem ($2,970,563.49 USD). I checked his wallet and noticed a few things that look suspicious!
- One day before he powered down there was a transfer of 1 Steem from his account to an account named @brixtongg. The caption of the transfer reads "Test" as if someone is testing to see if it works. My theory is that a hacker somehow gained access to @ned 's account and was testing to see if the hack was successful. It would also explain why @ned was transferring money to a brand new account.
- After the initial test @ned 's account reflects that he powered down 1,800,341.511 Steem.
- A day after @Ned 's account was powered down: 1,000 Steem was sent to the same account @brixtongg The odd thing about this transaction is up next.
- The following day a total of 110,872.084 Steem was sent to @brixtongg It's odd that this much was sent to a new & empty account, and that it took two trial transfers first to make sure that it would work. If @Ned was the one handling his account he would not have needed to send trial transfers, especially a day apart. This leads me to believe that it wasn't @Ned who powered down, and not @Ned who made the transfers.
This happened shortly after one of @surpassinggoogle's online friend's got hacked and couldn't recover her account. I included screenshots of her conversation from Facebook so that you could determine for yourself if she was hacked and if there is a bug in the Steemit system that doesn't allow people to recover their hacked accounts.
UPDATE: @Ned hasn't uploaded any new blog posts to Steemit but he has written a few comments.
In one of his comments he mentioned that he wants to make his stake in Steem (the currency) private. That way people wouldn't speculate and write news articles every time he buys or sells.
So it looks like @brixtongg is another one of his personal accounts and that he will be hiding his personal stake in Steem so that people won't know how much he owns, or when he buys or sells.
I guess the "test transfers" were done by him to make sure he was sending the 110k+ Steem to the right account!
It sounds like you think self-reflection is related to @ned taking his stake private. That is what I understand based on the comment you sent.
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he was the on that comment. except his telegram was hacked too which I doubt
It seems like @brixtongg is one of @ned's new accounts and that he is shifting around his stake in Steem so that he'll be able to trade Steem privately. I don't think he was hacked.. you're right. Thank you @surpassinggoogle
hahaha yes. I think it is more about play the articles that like to speculate. better that you tied to a possible hack and had play. some had fears. overall, Ned's powering down should be like anyone powering down.
I'm happy that @Ned clarified some of his reasoning in one of his comments. I think what scared people was the idea that @Ned could be abandoning the Steemit project. I think that would be a really strong blow to Steem since @Ned seems to be the biggest visionary within the Steemit project. I'm happy with his leadership and I hope he continues to steer the Steemit ship for a long time.
P.S. I guess I am one of the people that got a little scared too @surpassinggoogle but it seems like you are more confident than most people in regards to Steem and Steemit.
who knows, good analysis though
Yeah, it's just a rumor for now. Let's see what happens.
I included an "Update" at the bottom of this post. It looks like @brixtongg is another one of @ned's accounts. @zous
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