While everyone is celebrating the wild rise of the BTC price, and in our country people are celebrating Christmas, for the first time in our lives the team and I really felt the problem of centralization.

It should be a great day with a family, but... no way. Around 11am the customer of @cryptex24 writing to our exchange support chat the following

Good day. And what is the ban on sending ASH to the cryptex24 exchange? Transaction error: not allowed to send to

First we thought the problems are from the exchange side, so we woke up the devs to check everything out.

Then we thought that there are some issues on the Hive - Engine side, but according to the official Discord channel everything was ok!

After spending some time I wrote to tech-support and @gerber answered me, that probably the issue is caused by SOMEONES IDEA to BLOCK the account, cuz it's the exchanges one, and someon suffered because of sending Swap-Hive token to Binance-Hot and ofc never got it back. That's the idea why the Hive-Engine team decided to block @cryptex24 as well as the other exchanges.

That would be okay, in terms and risks of using centralized sidechain, but I guess everybody knows, that we are building lots of projects using Hive-Engine and our C24 Exchange supports lots of Hive Engine tokens such as LEO (@leofinance), DEC (@splinterlands), BEER (@detlev), CBM (@cryptobrewmaster), ASH (@aeneas.fund), and internal token Cryptex.

We listed all this tokens for free, while paying the dev team from our own pockets.

We pushed all the tokens to Coinpaprika.com nice and new coins and tokens aggregator.

We always here online to support our customers.

And what we have in return? Hive Engine team just pushes the button and we are out of the business.

OKAY, we even can deal with that...

But shit

I wrote to the Hive Engine support chat hours ago. Got an answer and nothing changed... NOTHING. I don't even ask for an apologizes for me and a team spending their Christmas online.

We payed the tokens, tribes, whole bunch of stuff. We promote HIVE in our country, created a game, which is on 4 place on the Hive Dapps rating. We running a Witness node, we working on a Full Public Node...

And we don't even worth a fucking answer?

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Abstracting from the situation... Is our customers funds in CBM tokens are safe? I mean if @cryptomancer can press a button and stop the deposit\withdrawing gate when he would like is your tokens safe? Is those even your tokens? NFTs? LOL.

What we are going to do?

We will discuss with the team a temporary or permanent replacement the Hive-Engine tokens in @cryptobrewmaster. We would like to build here on Hive, as we believe it's the best place with the best community, but after this kind of days, I don't even know what to say. Maybe switching to some other smart contract is an issue before Hive Media Tokens will release.

This will be considered and announced later.

Aside of everything was written, I would like to ask people who I met in personal during 2 Hive festivals, those who having the influence on Hive: How do you think we can fix the problem with the centralization of HE tokens and stimulate various projects to build their business on Hive?

@theycallmedan @arcange @blocktrades @roelandp @aggroed