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The Steem soft bifurcation sparked controversy, with trading platforms accused of "rigging" the vote

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Block pulse BlockBeats news, recently, about the Steem soft bifurcation things get attention. On March 2, it was revealed that major trading platforms including coon, Huobi and Poloniex were using their voting power to elevate Steemit related witnesses to the top 20, while sun yuchen was also accused of bribing the trading platform.

The above account is alleged to be a trading platform account with a large number of votes

Today, yuan 'an CEO zhao changpeng acknowledged on twitter that the vote had been taken, and said the company may withdraw the vote in light of the community's reaction. This operation requires coordination between several people in different geographic locations and may take a little time. Meanwhile, voices on the Internet urged other trading platforms to cancel the vote.

Source: twitter

On March 2, twitter user Luke Stokes tweeted that Steem was being used to take over the Steem blockchain in a centralized trading platform. Then, the founder of the etheric fang Vitalik Buterin also reply said: "obviously, Steem DPOS was taken over by large trading platform to depositors' money to vote. Who can confirm or provide details? This seems to be tokens vote" actually bribes to attack "the first big instance (bribery is exchange provide convenience for owners and obtain their votes)." Yesterday, the Steem network was also down for several hours after a check on the blockchain browser showed "failed connection to the Steem node".