The Steem community will be hard bifurcated again today, with some account assets frozen

According to foreign media reports, Steem will undergo another hard fork on May 20, and it is understood that this hard fork will cause some users to lose 23.6 million Steem, valued at $5 million, BlockBeats reported. The assets of these accounts have been frozen because they pose a direct threat to the Steem blockchain, or because they have previously seized the legitimate assets of Steem holders.& have spent

In December 2019, sun yuchen, CEO of wave field, acquired the Steemit blog platform, and in February 2020, he controversiously acquired the Steem blockchain platform. And then he bid the original Steem community, part of the community members in March this year launched a hard branch and generate new chain HIVE, also announced Sun Yuchen through acquisitions account address will not be a snapshot and obtain the corresponding "candy" in the new chain (rhythm, generally after hard bifurcate, hold the original scrip account can get a new chain amount of tokens).

According to & have spent Steem  According to Triple A Witness, A video site team on the blockchain, the hard fork will confiscate accounts deemed to pose A "direct threat" to Steem's blockchain. "The detentions plan is to target accounts that pose A direct threat to the Steem blockchain or have previously impound Steem holders' legitimate assets," Triple A Witness said. This is considered an indispensable measure to improve the stability of the Steem network and the user environment.

The Steem blockchain is run using a delegation proof (DPoS) model, in which users delegate their tokens to so-called witnesses to select the people they want to help keep the network running. If enough people support Triple A Witness, they will be able to create new blocks in the blockchain and upgrade the network.Triple A Witness, A film and TV show review site, is based on the Steem blockchain and USES its tokens as reward machines.

A partially frozen account

However, according to media Decrypt, they spoke to another name on the list, 'TheMarkyMark'. "TheMarkyMark" was Steem's chief witness and the last person voted for by the community before the Steem community was bought by sun yuchen. 'the people on these lists are essentially people who have the guts to oppose acquisitions,' he said. He adds that Steem witnesses are currently up in the air because the recent Hive hard fork prohibits them from getting free tokens.

The original address: https://decrypt.co/29416/steem-network-to-seize-5-million-from-its-own-users 

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