#steem

My Steem funds are currently being frozen by the top 20 Steem witnesses (reward for info)

Worse, my funds are being transferred weekly to a scam account, because I made a mistake when trying to withdraw those funds. I am unable to fix this mistake now, because the operation to stop it is also being frozen by the Steem witnesses.

I believe that the Steem witnesses are aware of this, but have taken no action to unfreeze my account.

Steem witness information needed

So I need to collect identity information on all the top Steem witnesses. I will contact them and give them a chance to unfreeze my account and reimburse me directly for the loss I have already had.

If they do not, I will see what options are available for suing them in their home locations. From past information posted, I believe several are located in South Korea, which respects property laws.

Reward for information

If you have any information about the real world identities of the top witnesses on Steem, please post it here. I will provide a 5% reward of any recovery I make with the people who provide correct information about witness identity (first come, first served on identity of individual witnesses). This reward doesn't apply to Steem witnesses who self-identify, but please provide the information, if you are so brave.

For identity information, I want the following: name, email, and address of residence. Other useful information: place of work. I already have information for one witness "skuld".

Comments · 140

@stresskiller(73)· 281d
you might want to check your witness votes , i saw your name at a witness that is no longer active ;)
@alejodavila23sb(63)· 372d
Thanks For info
@memess(63)· 891d
Hey, what happenend after ? Are you even still alive ?
@hivekings(62)· 1131d
Hey king! We need you, you're a such valuable member of the HIVE community and we need your help to bring the most advanced NFT market to HIVE that will integrate all the games and offer a new level experience to the NFT traders on all our blockchain. We're running a proposal and your vote is necessary to reach the goal. Thanks in advance king!
@dbuzz(73)· 1201d
Hi @darthknight,

I did not keep track of your transactions since you made this post but I wish you the best, and I'm interested in you having the best possible experience on #Hive.
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Thank you!
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@dynamicrypto(73)· 1308d
scumbag chain steem has become... any update?
@cryptobrewmaster(71)· 1428d
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@psyberx(73)· 1788d
Hey Darth. Thanks for the upvote. I see your history here, and it reminds me of my brothers. Reach out if you have time.
@sirekhay(55)· 1998d
Ohhh! That's saddens alot
@lizelle(79)· 2028d
Hey @darthknight, I've been wanting to thank you for a very long time for giving me hope last year with the awesome support during the horrid dark days of our draconian lockdown, but did not know how to do this, hope that you indeed see this. I further hope that your funds as well as the other accounts', have been returned by now. This year started with a bang when a second Covid wave hit our shores, bringing in a new variant; but guess what, our little bnb survived the storm of last year and we're now busier than ever before! I salute you kind Knight for your amazing support last year and for now supporting the @ocdb account which will help many new users grow on this platform. Wishing you the very best for 2021 and the future!
@intrepidphotos(77)· 2074d
Did this ever get resolved?
@omarrojas(75)· 2077d
I am very motivated with you, for your constant positive evaluations of my publications. Thank you. God will always be with you. Hugs from Venezuela. Success for you is my sincere wish this Christmas.
@omarrojas(75)· 2082d
Hugs. I sincerely wish many successes in your publications and curations. Greetings with affection from Cumaná-Venezuela.
@lyubo19(67)· 2083d
@darthknight I just found this post. Can I ask you how you get your crypto back? You have a very large amount of hive! Awesome :)) I hope that I will have the same amount one day! Stay save 🔥
@omarrojas(75)· 2086d
Successes. Success is my sincere wish. Congratulations.
@omarrojas(75)· 2091d
I sincerely hope that Steem's witnesses have unfrozen your account and the fraud against you has been resolved, God willing. Thank you for rating my publications. Greetings and successes from Omar Gustavo Rojas Ortiz from Cumaná -Venezuela.
@diem(25)· 2093d
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@omarrojas(75)· 2094d
I am very motivated at Hive, with the important evaluations you have given to my posts. It is a good occasion to thank you for your support and to wish you every success. Fraternal greetings from Cumaná, capital of Sucre-Venezuela state.
@jizzyjoe(69)· 2119d
Hi, I created a new initiative on hive to show positivity and support towards hive members. https://hive.blog/hive-114105/@jizzyjoe/introducing-hive-celebrates-with-01

Would love if you could visit the post to show support, I will be thrilled if you follow the curation trail. Thanks
@beerlover(65)· 2135d
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@siphon(69)· 2135d
!BEER
@francescomai(72)· 2157d
Thank @darthknigth for your generous upvote as usual!
@galenkp(84)· 2170d
Thank you for your continued support good sir. It never fails to humble me. Galen.
@darthnava(73)· 2172d
Hello, can I delegate my Hive Power (HP) to you? I need to save badly in order to buy a good gaming PC...
@idea-make-rich(70)· 2182d
Its shocking. Hope it will be fix. Best wishes from my side.
@logiczombie(67)· 2182d
With 3 million HivePower and an overall rank of #3, I'm guessing you got this "ironed out"?
@thepinkshoes(55)· 2183d
I saw you upvoted me with the highest amount. I am so happy. ❤️😊 Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Makes me wanna write to express more of myself.
@intrepidphotos(77)· 2187d
Hope you have some luck with the court case.
@mattsanthonyit(81)· 2214d
@darthnight, please kindly..... Look into this request of mine. I'm thinking of if you can bring up an idea or Initiative for a everyone to participate in it maybe for 2-3 weeks. It will bring more people into Hive ( newbies ) who are very talented in other fields and platform as well like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and more investors will join us as well. That's my request or proposal..

Thanks. Greetings from Ilorin Nigeria.
@ayopeju(67)· 2218d
@darthknight
@ayopeju(67)· 2218d
How did you go about the Steemit random? I wish you well @darthnight, I just followed you.
@mattsanthonyit(81)· 2221d
Thanks for your contribution on Hive Community. You are really doing a great job @darthnight.
@gorllara(57)· 2225d
Hi @darthknight need your support if you have time please visit my blog.
@mattsanthonyit(81)· 2245d
Hello @darthnight. I hope you Powered down some already sir? So sorry to hear 😢💔. It heartbroken.
@gatolector(67)· 2254d
Thank you very much for voting my post, you don't know how important it is that they appreciate my art 🤩
@ramsesuchiha(70)· 2255d
Thank you very much for the upvote you are not a hero, you are a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a Dark Knight. .... THX
@alucian(73)· 2258d
I know two witnesses private. But they are not you searching for. :-)

I think they are happy if you vote them :-)

@kristall97 @satren

Have a nice time and try to post again. ;-)

Salve Alucian
@nowargraffitis(71)· 2261d
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR VOTING! I feel honored!

... Amazing support!

cheers!
@ravenkim(70)· 2281d
너 왜 나한테 다운보팅 했니?
@bobskibob(61)· 2288d
@darthknight good news for you :):) your funds are now at @bittrex exchange 😀

https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange if you need more information let me know this should be enough to claim the price :P:P ill settle for a delegation lol
@bobskibob(61)· 2293d
whats happening with this did you manage to get your funds back ?
@johnolusegun(71)· 2298d
Sorry about that. I believe this will be resolved.
@jonsnow1983(76)· 2300d
Motherfuckers! That's what they are!
@hivebuzz(74)· 2303d
Congratulations @darthknight! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You distributed more than 1250 upvotes. Your next target is to reach 1500 upvotes.

_{You can view your badges on your board and compare to others on the Ranking} _{If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP}

Do not miss the last post from @hivebuzz:

Revolution! Revolution!
Vote for us as a witness to get one more badge and upvotes from us with more power!
@hiveshout(7)· 2307d
I shared this on Twitter! I really hope you get this sorted out in your favor! 😒

https://twitter.com/HiveShoutout/status/1256240005795717123?s=20
@jahangirwifii(66)· 2311d
Hello @darthknight i need your help
@mattsanthonyit(81)· 2311d
@darthknight. I hope you have succeeeded in fishing out your funds on Steem? What's the progress. I am interested.
@derangedvisions(81)· 2313d
Hey man, I just want to say thank you for the support on my recent post. It is much appreciated. Thanks for what you do for the community.
@promisearts(67)· 2319d
That's terrible! Sorry you have to go through such. I assumed all that shady business would be done after Hive happened, you should sue every last one of them if they don't make amends, a lot of other people may be affected too.
@allmonitors(80)· 2322d
I hope you can still get your Steem back. That is a lot of it!
@alinahghjggyjgy(25)· 2324d
Hello
@tamiil(69)· 2325d
I have to thank you for the insane upvote. It's the largest one I've gotten ever and means a lot to me. I've known you from this tragic event, but now I know you from something else as well. :) I'm glad to see you're making people's days a bit brighter even as your own are pretty cloudy these days.
@anarchy999(62)· 2329d
Crazy and sad. Thanks fir the update.
@cnts(64)· 2329d
gutted for you bro. sending prayers
@franz54(76)· 2329d
Good morning, some people say that @darthknight is @blocktrades, but I don't see any positive vote from Blocktrades in this publication to give it even more visibility.
@trafalgar(73)· 2329d
Can someone from Steem please help him out? Seems to be an honest good faith investor who bought his tokens on the market and there are extenuating circumstances regarding his power down involving a typo here.

Can both sides at least stop punishing people for the way they voted by directly or indirectly messing with their accounts please? (freezing/selective airdrop etc.) This general disregard for property rights is extremely damaging to the respective reputations of each chain.
@slobberchops(82)· 2329d
This is truly sickening to me. I noted your name on the freeze list but couldn't understand why you had been added. I saw you as a new investor and that what STEEM needed (at the time before it all went to shit).

I hope this all gets sorted out for you, I wish you all the best. The real community are not a bunch of twats, like 'they are', I can assure you of that.
@kingbit(67)· 2329d

Hello, guys? I read @ darthknight's post on hive yesterday ( I was very curio... Who is the owner of Binance's "101130147" wallet? (darthknight??blocktrades??alpha??)
@skymin(69)· 2329d
https://hive.blog/hive/@skymin/darthknight-blocktrades-darthknight-who-are-you
@donekim(77)· 2330d
Hi, blocktrades! Why don't you upload a post with your real account?
@adetorrent(78)· 2330d
I suggest you get your lawyers on the case. Maybe even sue Justin directly.
@thedesertlynx(63)· 2330d
Really sucks, sorry. It really casts into question the original decentralization value proposition of Steem. It's definitely worth focusing on quite a few different networks in case one falls prey to someone like Sun with a lot of money and power.
@firstamendment(58)· 2330d
the hinomaru jp witness has a telegram account. You might be able to sue telegram to get his email and phone number. Feel free to criminally prosecute @hinomaru-jp for fraud also.

https://steemit.com/steem/@hinomaru-jp/steem-japan-kol

https://t.me/hinomaru_jp
@palasatenea(60)· 2330d
The legal actions are a good attemp, try to recover by other methods is nice too, but imho the best solution is to compesate him by voting posts with community's stake. He won in a post over to 1500 hive in HP and HBD so with some post like this one he could easily recover his funds in this chain without the need of other actions.

Solidarity is key in this, if he recover his original funds much better, but I find it very improbable. I will vote this myself for visibility.
@deepu7(72)· 2330d
Very sad news. Hope it will be fixed. Best wishes from my side.
@papilloncharity(83)· 2330d
Sounds like you have at least a few contacts here in the replies my friend. All strength to your efforts and I hope that if you win this, the other accounts will also be un-frozen.
@eeks(64)· 2330d
Maybe Justin Sun and the Quisling witnesses could make you whole by giving you their Hive, which they don't want and are dumping anyways? Win-win? A million Hive would be easy for them to give you.
@libertycrypto27(82)· 2330d
@darthknight What happened to you is really sad and I'm very sorry. Freezing an account is a truly disgusting and dictatorial gesture. Unfortunately, I am unable to help you with the identity of the witnesses. I immediately reblog your post hoping that someone can help you.
@jonsnow1983(76)· 2330d
Brother I read about this yesterday on Twitter, I wish I could help you in any way but at least there are many comments that may help you in your cause. I just shared your post here and on Twitter so more people can see it. I wish you fortune in the wars to come.
@policewala(29)· 2330d
so sad justin sun is not able to run any kind of community he is just a mad guy nothing else.
@joshman(74)· 2330d
For some stupid reason they feel justified, and for some stupid reason they think that there is safety in numbers.

This post is now being filtered. They are actively trying to suppress dissenting opinions.
@roomservice(62)· 2330d
Did a quick background check: How are you associated with account @crystalliu?

I dont't really know if I should support people who are raping the reward pool...
@bil.prag(76)· 2330d
contact @inertia about this https://peakd.com/steem/@inertia/theory-how-to-side-step-soft-consensus he claims it is possible, maybe he can help.
@indigoocean(69)· 2330d
This is a sickening situation and I truly hope you get redress soon. Steemit Inc. is of course the main one to go after, as well as Justin Sun personally. Also, I want to point you to a specific recent event. Recall when Justin was having that very public lunch with Warren Buffett and the CCP intervened. Justin disappeared for a couple weeks, showing up on video with a fake background and saying he was in SF. He was held in China. Had to cancel the luncheon and the next you know he is publicly apologizing for his "pride." Eventually lunch with Buffett happens but very low key and just a few Tron team there. There's your course of action. In whatever you do, do it in a way that makes the CCP lose face.
@joythewanderer(81)· 2330d
Really sorry to hear, hope you can find a solution soon. 🙏
@angel33(39)· 2330d
This is sad news
@jeffjagoe(77)· 2330d
Justin (Yuchen) Sun is using his stake to freeze yours. The only reason he has this power is because @ned (Ned Scott) fraudulently sold him the STEEM Genesis Stake through Steemit Inc.
@tobetada(77)· 2330d
So @glory7 has officially replied:

https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@glory7/re-darthknight
@tobetada(77)· 2330d
hope you get it resolved fast!
@bubke(61)· 2330d
https://steempeak.com/hive-101145/@glory7/re-darthknight
@glory7(76)· 2330d
Please check my reply at https://www.steemcoinpan.com/hive-101145/@glory7/re-darthknight
@psos(66)· 2330d
Steemhunt

https://steemhunt.com/

Founders
- tabris https://m.facebook.com/sydneyitguy
- project7 https://m.facebook.com/cyh7070/
@melissaofficial(65)· 2330d
I figured it will be difficult for them to unfreeze your funds easily. They are afraid you will dump as soon as you have your funds. That's too bad and I sympathize with you. Goodluck on a journey to recover your funds.
@phortun(79)· 2330d
Don´t know how to help but I really really hope you will be able to get your funds back, all of you guys. I refuse to believe they would just get away with such a disgusting con...
@emrebeyler(76)· 2330d
Sorry to hear your loss, that's totally unacceptable. I hope you can recover your losses.

Regarding changing the power down route for the remaining cycles, did you check out this?
@hottravel(36)· 2330d
바보니? 병신이니? hive가 먼저 한국사람 동결시켰잖아. 또라이냐?
@lordbutterfly(80)· 2330d
Good luck. @jayplayco and @glory7 are good first targets but i would also go for steemit.inc (US based) since Justin is the one controlling the witnesses and theres sufficient proof that he is still running a number of fake witnesses as well.
@urun(69)· 2330d
Here Justin Sun control the Witness votes https://twitter.com/justinsuntron. I dont know he is now in korean discord, but sometimes he is there.

IT is really sick what happens with your funds.

I would say you tell justin to realease your funds, otherwise you make make interviews with crypto related news sites.

Next shitstorm for him.

Good luck to get your coins back
@eirik(69)· 2330d
Good luck getting it all back!
@luca1777(69)· 2330d
Can we learn from your mistake? What was it?
@d-pend(76)· 2330d
I knew there was a chance of harsh retributive action by Steemit, Inc. against those supporting the Hive fork given how centralized things have become on STEEM, but still I was absolutely shocked when I saw your name on the list, then saw the withdraw route typo... man I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this! Really hope it all works out in the end.
@ammonite(73)· 2330d
Locking all these accounts while the price is being pumped is a very bad sign of what is to come. I thought the freeze they put on accounts would also freeze any transaction going through?
@ange.nkuru(66)· 2330d
Man this sucks balls. I can't imagine what you're feeling right now but I wish you all the luck in recouping all your funds. Keep your head up mate, you will get through this!
@falledsta(13)· 2330d
다른사람 자금 동결시킬땐 잘한짓이고 니 자금 동결되면 나쁜짓이냐? 웃긴애네 ㅎㅎ
@steevc(80)· 2330d
This is a terrible thing to happen and will put people off investing in Steem. Steemit are culpable in this as it is their support for the witnesses who run the new software that keeps them in place. They should allow you to fix the power down and extract your funds. Are you working with Blocktrades and the other victims?
@flugschwein(62)· 2330d
I just want to throw in here, that we should be careful to not doxx anybody on here, and that anyone who finds the information you need, contacts you privately. The downvote was because I disagree with your rewards, not with your post content, I wish you the best for your search. :-)
@thecastle(69)· 2330d
If they are located in China then you are fucked. You can likely just sue Justin Sun directly though.
@californiacrypto(63)· 2330d
Thats just criminal what they did to you plain and simple. Hope it all works out. I would get the lawsuit started with one of them like Jay Playco and Justin Sun until you get more info on the rest of them. Hopefully the rest will see what will come to them and they will take action to unfreeze your funds and cover your losses caused by their actions.
@appalachain(59)· 2330d
Man, that sucks. I see you were pretty new to steem too.
Keep us in the loop man. There's a lot of good folks here on Hive. I see some of the witnesses that have been around awhile are gettin on the horn for ya. Hopefully something will get through.

Temporarily freezing the steemit inc's inc funds because of malicious activity and screwing with a user's funds are two totally different things.
@lemouth(75)· 2330d
I am afraid I can't help you more here. All the information I have has already been shared by others in the comments.

Anyways, I wish you good luck to recover your funds and you have all my sympathy.
@mahdiyari(73)· 2330d
People responsible for freezing accounts: Witnesses who run the 0.22.8888 And their voters including: Steemit inc.

Those witnesses on steem have no power without Steemit inc.! Justin Sun as the man behind Steemit inc. is the man behind all of this.
@hatoto(70)· 2330d
i wish you all the best!
@naha(74)· 2330d
hive 증인 20명이 내 HIVE 토큰을 도둑질 했다. hive 증인 20명의 연락처를 아는 분은 말좀 해달라.
@sanjeevm(78)· 2330d

I made a mistake when trying to withdraw those funds

Curious to know what was the mistake ? I think, @steemchiller is a good guy, he was blocked for the hive tokens ( that's another thing), but I think, he may provide some idea.
@tipsybosphorus(54)· 2330d
@justyy is hanging Hive
@ausbitbank(74)· 2330d
I've just sent a message in the Steemit Inc slack tagging Eli Powell, JustinW and David Roebuck pointing them to your post (with a few choice words and recommendations). This whole situation is ridiculous and I hope you get this resolved quickly.
@udezee(71)· 2330d
Really heartbroken about this issue. I hope a solution arises soon!
@roelandp(78)· 2330d
@Darthknight Im really sorry about your mistake and not be able to fix it. Im in the same situation as yours, as you might know... Yet my full PD almost reflects 1 week of yours :)

I hope you find more information on all people involved, yet I would refrain from having anyone post vital personal data on-chain. Doxxing in this matter would not help and maybe be even contrary to your (our) case.

Maybe add another way of contact to you, or ask people to use something like keybase to safely encrypt personal identifiable data for your research.
@sadbear(75)· 2330d
More and more steemit is declining due to the terrible management it is currently having, I would like to be able to help or have some information that was really valuable in order to provide you with more valuable support, I wish you good luck recovering your funds and also regaining control 100% of your account in steem, I hope they can not get away with it and please get out of it, you have my support if you need to spread the word and spread some new information, good luck and strength, Hive on! 🐻🚀⚡
@jongolson(82)· 2330d
Geeez, 'sorry to hear this' can't possibly do it justice.

Just horrible on so many levels. I do hope you find a resolution to this...
@krnel(80)· 2330d
They really don't stand on core principles the lot of them. They just stand on money, and doing whatever they can to keep getting the money for being witnesses. No integrity. I think Sun/Steemit needs to be targeted, as some have stated. And the court of public opinion can help put pressure, if no legal avenue exists. I'd write up a story of events in this situation, and submit it to the crypto news sites to get pressure to commence. Good luck finding justice in our often unjust world :/

@pfunk(73)· 2330d

Did you know that they originally had the soft fork set to 14:00 UTC, 12 hours from when they announced it just as it said in the post. But then they went back on their word and changed it to 10:00 UTC at 8:52 UTC?

https://github.com/steem-witnesses/steem/compare/0.22.888...0.22.8888

And your attempt to fix the misspelling, which was rejected by these centralized sham witnesses, was at 10:02. Had they stuck to their word, little that it was worth at that point anyway, you would have had 4 more hours to fix it.


    {"now":"2020-04-04T10:02:33","trx.exp":"2020-04-04T10:02:33"}
    database.cpp:3470 _apply_transaction

    {"trx":{"ref_block_num":34431,"ref_block_prefix":1566132272,"expiration":"2020-04-04T10:02:33","operations":[{"type":"set_withdraw_vesting_route_operation","value":{"from_account":"darthknight","to_account":"bittrix","percent":0,"auto_vest":false}}],"extensions":[],"signatures":["1f6b3b96b19fc4e64fc28cb513454f2f140e05e7d750d9069b3cd56352cf04bb8b2ecc4956170c31fab4b8875eed313629120c15247a84af39b3e7abe3974a76c7"]}}
    database.cpp:3498 _apply_transaction
153516ms db_with.hpp:103               ~pending_transaction ] {"ref_block_num":34431,"ref_block_prefix":1566132272,"expiration":"2020-04-04T10:02:33","operations":[{"type":"set_withdraw_vesting_route_operation","value":{"from_account":"darthknight","to_account":"bittrix","percent":0,"auto_vest":false}}],"extensions":[],"signatures":["1f6b3b96b19fc4e64fc28cb513454f2f140e05e7d750d9069b3cd56352cf04bb8b2ecc4956170c31fab4b8875eed313629120c15247a84af39b3e7abe3974a76c7"]}```

@thecryptodrive(70)· 2330d
Hi @darthknight, this is highly unfortunate and I hope this hasn't put you off Hive as a result of what has happened on Steem. I am still in the Steemdevs Slack and have created an urgent DM between David Roebuck the Tron rep, Elizabeth and Justinw from Steemit. I have requested a technical solution from Justin and to request they communicate with the witnesses. The https://steemd.com/@dev365 account, which belongs to Steemit was the enforcer of the SF, it unvoted those that didn't run the SF, which is direct proof of Steemit Inc's involvement in a Howey-like manner. Steemit inc would be the easiest target to claim from as they are US based and were an accomplice to you losing your property, if they don't rectify the matter you could try claim from them, I would also suggest if/when this is rectified that you claim whatever funds got lost to the Bittrix spoof account from them, you also have the option to put an SPS proposal claim for what you lost, I would vote for it.

Hope it all comes right soon.
@tarazkp(86)· 2330d
It is incredible they have not acted on this and demonstrates how little they care about anyone but themselves.

Steemit Inc should be liable as the supporting function behind this.

Inversely, the top 20 could pay you all their block rewards for the next 2 years or so.
@vlemon(78)· 2330d
Good luck my dear... I feel your pain...
@galenkp(84)· 2330d
My brother @tarazkp told me about this a couple days ago and I was pretty disgusted; Of course, I can only imagine how you feel.

I am sorry this happened and also that I cannot provide any relevant information; I wish I could help though.

All the best in your recovery process; There's some smart people around here so I hope someone can help you. Most would not even take your 5% offer for doing so probably.

Good luck.
@clm(57)· 2330d
There are 3 witnesses between range of 25-30. They are producing blocks. Try to get them voted higher and let a script run your transaction until it gets broadcasted from one of these witnesses.
@geekgirl(80)· 2330d
Also, contact @DavidMRoebuck on Twitter. He is a reasonable person and friends with Justin Sun, who took part as a negotiator in the drama. He also might be able to help you out. See if you can work it out with talking to these people before lawyering up. I hope you will be able to save the rest of your funds and no more damage is done.
@quochuy(78)· 2330d
I'm really sorry for what happened to your funds when you had nothing to do with any of these. I hope the current Steem Witnesses have some decency to review your position and help you fix this.
@geekgirl(80)· 2331d
Hi again @darthknight! Could you contact Jayplayco on discord - jayplayco#9869? He can try to help you connect with the top 20 witnesses, relay the message, and hopefully resolve this issue asap. Please do. He will do his best to help you out with this situation.
@drakos(70)· 2331d
You need to sue Justin Sun (and Steemit Inc, although they are powerless with little staff and do the boss' bidding). Demand immediate reversal of the freeze as well as compensation for the lost funds. Justin is the main culprit, he's the one who put those idiot witnesses in the top20 and allowed them to wreak havoc. They are amateurs who have little experience in running the network. I don't support doxxing, but this level of irresponsibility from Justin Sun has reached high levels of madness that anything goes at this point. I wish you the best of luck retrieving your funds.
@justineh(72)· 2331d
I’m really sorry you are having to go through this. The current Steem witnesses (which it even hurts to call them that) are a group working together with a few as “leaders”. Those leaders have been openly trying to blackmail some involved with Hive. I assume with enough public pressure they could be persuaded to reverse at least your account. I mean, someone would have to show them how, but if they were convinced then perhaps it’s possible.

Many at Hive would be open to help in any way possible. Feel free to reach out to Hive witnesses or you can’t reach me at any of the following:

telegram - @justineontheblock Discord - Justine#8837 Email - justineontheblock@protonmail.com
@twunders(54)· 2331d
That is so not cool. I am glad I switched to Hive!
@geekgirl(80)· 2331d
When I saw this typo withdraw yesterday, I immediately messaged 3 of the top witnesses: justyy, project7(steemhunt), and jayplayco. I hope they will do the right thing and help you out to resolve the situation.

I messaged them again with the link to this post. I hope everything will be resolved.

If not we should consider a Hive Proposal System to compensate the victims of these hostile actions be reimbursed in Hive tokens.
@yousafharoonkhan(77)· 2331d
@darthnight dear Brother 3days ago my steem account hacked by bot hackers. Plz dear friends be carefull. And inshahAllah my pray you get back all your forzen. Plz plz be care full always brother last 3 days ago i lost my one year hard work earning by bot hacker i also wrote post and video . there is only one who can help you plz plz cantact to @guiltyparties
@oliverschmid(70)· 2331d
I hope you can resolve this asap.
@guiltyparties(74)· 2331d
I was trying to reach you earlier, had a few ideas on getting your funds cleared from a tech perspective. Unfortunately after testing the theories there's no way. Already tried everything. If you manage to get on discord I'll catch you up.

I wouldn't doxx them. The real issue isn't the top witnesses but who is controlling the top witnesses. The night of the SF there were only a few running the code, rest clearly didn't know about it. The code was the initiative of a few people, that much is clear.

The ones in darker blue are the ones running that code right off the bat. The account that makes the call of who stays in the top is https://steemd.com/@dev365 and if you look at the transactions, it went into action. That account is also the proxy for the three colluding exchanges. That's Justin Sun's account.

Message me on Discord at GuiltyParties [.com]#5071

(edit: @darthknight, message me please, there's another update)
@thegoliath(73)· 2331d
It's a rough thing to go through when you literally just come in and then are being screwed over steem side. You got all these hive funds on a blockchain that is continuously improving, for a newly formed thing to continue providing the community with what they love about it.

Hopefully you get it all sorted mate, but good to have you here and you being keen on the blockchain technology used for blogging platforms like steem and hive is used for.
@bryan-imhoff(69)· 2331d
I’d be curious if it would be easier to litigate against Steemit Inc. directly. On one hand, the terms of service work against you... and also backup the initial witness freeze of Justin Sun’s funds, which he called criminal, despite his own company clearly stating it’s not!

However, the big difference now is that Steemit Inc. is clearly in full control of the blockchain now, which makes the ToS incorrect, maybe criminally so. If that could be established legally I imagine liability would follow.

On a side note, that last line has always gotten me, as it seems to clearly spell out that Justin’s purchase of the Steemit Inc. stake could absolutely be contested by the community.
@liberosist(72)· 2331d
This is absolutely nuts.

I haven't really been paying attention to the new witnesses, but I notice that all of them were made to pledge that they will never freeze anyone's stake. Based on that, Justin Sun and Steemit Inc voted them in. Ultimately, the buck stops with Justin Sun and Steemit Inc. If they stop voting for these terrible witnesses, the game's over. I'd suggest getting in touch with Eli Powell first, and asking them to threaten to withdraw votes for basically breaking that one pledge they asked for in the first place! Additionally, I would recommend getting in touch with blocktrades, roelandp and others who are also facing a similar issue. They are long time members of the community, will have a plan and will surely help you out, and perhaps even work on joint legal action. They should have contact info available on their profiles / websites. Also, get in touch with crypto media outlets, make some noise, spread word on CT (crypto twitter) and Reddit - the PR would be so shit stained that these fools will be forced to relent. If you need any help, feel free to add me on Discord, @liberosist#8254.

Lastly, you're the best whale to appear on Hive/Steem in quite a while. Keep up your great curation, as you know it's the secret to building this community!

PS: All/most of these witnesses have posts making the pledge, and more bragging involved. Some will give away personal information unwittingly. I see three of them are still pinned on Steemit, others will have such posts on their blog.
@carn(51)· 2331d
@bukio

Company website: https://buk.io/ Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bukplatform Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/buktwits Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buk-io/ Company Crunchbase records: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bbdbu

Founder/CEO's name: Minsu Kang LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minsukang/ GitHub: https://github.com/minsu Twitter: https://twitter.com/bombshots Medium: https://medium.com/@minsukang
@korver(68)· 2331d
This is tragic. You should not be part of this war. I hope you'll get back those funds.
@norbu(70)· 2331d
This is unacceptable and I hope this resolves fairly for you.
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2331d
Most of them have likely provided KYC to several Korean exchanges easily found by seeing who accepts KRW. Check their wallets for transactions to the exchanges.

If there is a criminal or civil investogation, your korean lawyer can obtain KYC information.

I live in Korea and am registered to a Korean exchange. For the past 2 years all Korean exchanges have required real name ID and a verified matching Korean bank account. Think of it as super tight KYC.

The prosecutors could easily obtain the information you are looking for if your case is accepted. Online pseduonyms get sued all the time here.

Also be careful as defamation laws are extremely strict in korea (read up on it, truth doesn't matter).

Do not make public or republish any info the people in these comments provide.
@build-it(68)· 2331d
Really sorry about that buddy, hopefully, you will get your lost funds back.
@wandereronwheels(67)· 2331d
Really sad to know this man... you recently invested so much into Steem and they do this :/ Hope this gets sorted. I have forwarded this link to my friends who might know about some witnesses atleast or how to get this sorted. Hope that will help out. And yeah, if you want real community, I'd rather suggest you stay/get active on Hive. I've been with this community from the past 3 years, meeting most of them every year during our yearly conference which was earlier called Steemfest. It is absolutely lovely, the energy and people. Steem is getting centralized and its become like China lol
@daltono(81)· 2331d
What is happening to you here is downright unacceptable. The freezing of accounts was done in a sinister manner.

I cannot help with the identities, but just wanted to say that I think you are taking the proper steps to remedy what has occurred. The Hive community is behind you on this one & we thank you for believing in our community enough to continue to invest.
@hungryhustle(68)· 2331d
@Justyy

Name: Zhihua Lai Website: https://justyy.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlai Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorzlai Likerid: justyyuk

Source: https://justyy.com/

He lives in the UK. Here his FB profile: https://www.facebook.com/zhihua.lai

The info I shared is already public. He has attended Steemfest and I am sure at least a few people have met him there. @cryptocurator is one of them.

P.S. I hope nobody shares their sensitive info such as address in the comments, if it is not available publicly by them already.

@darthknight, I suggest you to share your Discord or Telegram ID so the concerned parties can DM you personally on this one.
@fknmayhem(72)· 2331d
In case you don’t have it yet:

Segye Park: https://www.linkedin.com/in/segye-park-22022516/ Jay Kim (jayplayco): https://www.linkedin.com/in/zionopia/

Source: tripleaaa team intro. https://steempeak.com/jjm/@jayplayco/team-jjm-introduction-of-team-members No LinkedIn link for Ochi Jun (virus707) available in post.
@franz54(76)· 2331d
I hope that you will soon be able to recover your funds, it is a shame to see an outside investor involved in all this, as well as not just being an investor but supporting quality content. Greetings!