It would seem at the conclusion of HF23 a guardian angel stood in the gap to protect what was about to become one of crypto's largest heist done in broad daylight at 2PM UTC, Wednesday.
23 Million Steem valued at over $5m was being stolen from 64 users on Steem and being channeled into an anonymous account by the name, community321.
However, as soon as the funds arrived in the account it would seem someone with a conscience, and the account keys, quickly sent those funds to Bittrex with the memo, These are funds stolen by the Steem witnesses using HF23 May 20th 2020 - please return them to their original owners prior to the fork :)
Note, that is an unusual memo. Normally the memo would be a series of numbers corresponding to your wallet on Bittrex which is how the Exchange knows whose account to deposit to.
This was a way to keep the funds safe from the clutches of Overlord Sun.
The unsung hero did not stop at that though.
The individual left a message in a language Sun could understand translating to "Stealing is bad".
The drama is not yet over though.
The Steem Witness account on Twitter left a very feeble declaration stating that the 'assets would be recovered'.
I am not quite sure how they would even do that.
The 64 users are solely relying on Bittrex to arbitrate this entire debacle and to logically come to the obvious conclusion that the funds were being stolen from their rightful owners and summarily do the correct thing.
I wonder if Justin Sun would be stupid enough to go after the Bittrex account and try and drain it.
That would be a 'shotgun to the foot' type of situation.
Whoever was behind the white hat heist, you deserve a statue. You will go down in history alongside the anonymous figure, Satoshi Nakamoto (whose account coincidentally transacted 40 Bitcoin today since 2009), I don't care!
Decentralization will always win in the face of centralization so long as the community sticks together.
I don't think it's stopping anytime soon..
It all depends on what Bittrex does. It doesn't seem good for the victims.