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It does, they basically just centralized Steem, using funds on exchanges that probably don t even belong to them. But hey, what we did was criminal.

Of course the funds dont belong to them.

This isnt mutually exclusive, Binance can be criminals as well as the steem witnesses. But I suspect the TOS of Binance probably make them proxies to your steem (or other cryptos) otherwise you could literally call autorities.

No the softfork is the same difference as this. The Softfork highlighted Steems flaw and Justin doubled down to prove its been Centralized all along.

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