This was the difference in votes when I went to bed vs when I woke up. So Justin is still aggressively raising the ante, but we still have a good lead. I guess it's really frustrating knowing we have the votes to take every witness spot and freeze his accounts again. That would put an end to this very vulnerable situation we find ourselves in. I assume people are trying to get in touch with the voters who aren't using all the votes to carry us through. Pretty tough though considering. It really shows you the spectrum of politics required for decentralization.
Binance is Insolvent
They attacked our chain with investor funds and froze those promised-to-be liquid coins. We should work to remove all liquidity from Binance so Sun doesn't have a lot of options with the exchanges that are already very wary over the situation.
They could vote in the top 20 witnesses immediately and end this. I think we demand they undo what they have done. Not that I expect they will, only if they refuse the optics look bad and they will get more bad press.
If "blood money" hits the market, Sun will lose votes on the powerdown and the market could flash crash. That's a concern, but it's also a good way to instantly lose this war for the majority vote. If Steem has to flash crash to regain control of the chain and boot this chuckle head off our network, so be it.
What we need to do is organize price points as a community.
Something like
Provide liquidity on Binance for $0.01 per coin on the STEEM/BTC market.
If Sun wants to sell ninjamined stake I think we should agree to buy it back at a low level and use to to freeze his accounts once we get enough witnesses. Make the cashout as painless as possible. The amount we pay is the amount of community support we can acquire to buy at $0.01 and power it up to boot him off the network.
Conlcusion
We need to mess with Binance's liquidity. They are vulnerable, and the biggest player by far in this arena. Steem dancing with Binance would be pretty huge news.
If at any time we get a super majority of 17 witnesses Steemit's stake will be frozen again and this vote war would be over.
Justin Sun has used investor money to attack this chain and reverse consensus. The banks are backing away, but also not helping us. They secretly hope we lose. This is just further confirmation to the entire cryptosphere that banks can't be trusted to play nice or even to secure user funds in this environment. The world should know who they are dealing with. New boss, same as the old boss.
PS
It looks like the Steemit Inc development team is trying to get SPS funding?
https://steempeak.com/openseed/@andrarchy/witness-voting-openseed-and-openlink
I just auto voted for it.
Proposal #64
It's $100 a day... Pretty good deal.
Looks like it's already active with 16M in votes.