Who is @shapeshift? - an open letter to the early miners

One thing is certain, Hive account@shapeshift has nothing to do with Shapeshift, the real Shapeshift, and to be fair, when Shapeshift joined Steemit, as Hive account@shapeshiftio, Hive account@shapeshift quickly added a comment that the Hive account@shapeshift account was not linked to Shapeshift the company. It's a little confusing, and it confused me and I transfered some STEEM to Hive account@shapeshift.

The purpose of this post is to

• try to get my STEEM back
• also to encourage Hive account@shapeshift to return STEEM to the other confused users
• to ask Hive account@shapeshift, as a gesture of goodwill, to hand over the keys to the account to The Real Shapeshift. It would be tidier.

But why an open letter to the early miners?

The Hive account@shapeshift account was opened in April 2016, and so I make a few assumptions

• the account was opened by an early miner
• there is a chance that the particular early miner is still actively involved with the platform
• that other early miners know who it is (please have a word).

Is there more to add?

Not really, except that the same early miner seems to have opened many many accounts in April 2016. I assume this because the accounts have the same recovery account. There are many famous names.

I had thought I might title this post

Hive account@facebook is on Steemit!

and then write Looks like facebook hasn't started blogging yet!

I guess he's busy with his other site... that kind of thing.

Perhaps, though, it is more serious. Shapeshift appears to be a very friendly and human operation, but Facebook, the real one, has lawyers. And there is an Hive account@apple too!

There was the whole thing, back in the late summer, about keeping it all legal, not pinching photos, money is involved, citing sources, being professional. Come on guys, someone's made a small amount of STEEM using some seriously protected trade names.

I suggest the keys of Hive account@facebook, Hive account@apple and other such accounts be handed over to Steemit Inc, so that if anyone comes asking they can just say we were keeping them safe for you, the rightful owners of these trademarks.