Hello dear Steemians,
Yesterday I saw the post by hotspotitaly about the user @ponpase who is as an owner of Master keys of two communities changed the keys and now Powering them down:
- @hive-163291, Steemit Travel, Power Down started 3 days ago
- @steem-database Steem Marketing, Power Down started 13 days ago
We have discussed that in Booming discord but also you can see the comments under the post:
@hotspotitaly/warning-to-all-communities-the-steemit-travel-account-has-been-compromised
We had a long discussion how to prevent that in the future that single user can do that, there were many opinions because many factors play its role, one of the important one:
- Human factor and honesty
In the whole story with those two communities it was one user who cheated everyone that is @ponpase.
I knew him because he was once selected to be Steemcurator and he was in my Team, therefore, I already knew his attitude and alerted Steemit Team.
I was not surprised when I heard that he previously had managed tricked out other people and created communities that accumulated Steem with the trust of the Steemit Team and then the users and communities disappeared.
Therefore, I wanted to remind everyone about that and show how clever the user is and what we need to pay attention in the future.
Three users: @arie.steem @pojan, @ponpase |
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*When going back and reviewing the projects where @ponpase was involved, automatically we are coming to these three names and @arie.steem @pojan, @ponpase. There is a lot in common and who knows if that is one person or a group of people who decided to create the communities, gain trust of the Steemit Team and then cash out Steem and leave.
@arie.steem had account in 2017, but after split stopped blogging and re-started about 2 years ago with Steem Promotion.
When that was seen and supported by @steemcurator01 the users decided to go further and create an a promotion account
and this account:@steemcoffeeshop
Once again with trust of Steemit Team the account started to grow:
What happened to the users and projects? |
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@arie.steem has stopped activity 2 years ago and now there is only 30 Steem on account, withdrawn 14.230 Steem, if you pay attention to the Memo Number 103866497 that number you will see often
@pojan is another user who is not posting for about a year and his account now has 27 Steem and he has withdrawn 10K Steem
Now to the accounts that were created for Vote-Farming, again look at the Memo Number which is the same like in previous withdrawals. Currently @promosteem.com account has only 31 Steem
Withdrawn 30K Steem
What about @steemcoffeeshop, it is only 5 Steem left:
Withdrawn 11.500Steem:
As to @ponpase he has his Steem Power about 22K delegated to @abb-curation that is why he will not withdraw anything yet but will farm votes through Upvote-per-Delegation service
Multi-sign wallet for new communities
As the result of discussion we came across to the post of @rexthetech about Multi-sign wallet, when in order to close down or Power Down an account it will require two or more people, please see link below:
@rexthetech/steem-multisig-wizard-update
There is no magic tool and advise what to do to prevent such cases, this is very human that if there is a possibility to get easy money people might get temped. At the every individual and every case is different, when creating community make sure that everyone has the same goal and there because of the sake of community. Hope that then will work
Hope the post will reach many and hope we have learnt from that example
