I just happened to have noticed that the sock puppet witnesses have all put up their price feed!
It’s a good thing, it’s important to have uniformity where possible across the block producers!
And it is also good to see the price of Steem increasing (albeit I suspect it is temporary and artificial given the current status, but let's see, I would love to be wrong on that score)
You already knew one entity is behind the 20 “sock puppet” witnesses and that this is against a principle of decentralized governance. You already suspected they are run uniformly and could be a single point of failure.
I am certain the Price Feed increased simultaneously, I saw this on SteemD and SteemPeak; giving further credence to the argument that all 20 “sock puppet witnesses” are all managed by one person/entity and potentially all in one physical environment.
I appreciate at the minute there are certainly 9 independent block producers in the Top 10 as illustrated in the image above. I hope everyone is making best use of their Witness Votes.
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