I’ve been actively stalking enough lately to see the voting and managed to cast mine [for STEEM obviously].
In my short time in the crypto game, it seems that while everyone (usually only those someohow invested in STEEM) is talking the STEEM blockchain up — the actual exposure of it is close to zero. Especially compared to some of these other “useless” cryptos. Like Verge was on a binance way before STEEM. So the outcome of the voting was not surprising to me.
I really only noticed the top two names up there STEEM / Verge so I don’t recall who the other players were... but it made me think:
What is verge? Do they have a community/social media platform akin (or not) to Steemit? How were they able to pull this off? Maybe they just created fake emails for voting? Or bought votes?