The 'dan' and 'ned' accounts were compromised by their own carelessness (not any sort of bug in the blockchain code) at a time when they were rather large (millions of STEEM), but not so large as to threaten the integrity of the blockchain to the extent that the steemit account does.
In response Steemit pushed through a fork (unilaterally using the 'steemit' account to replace all witnesses) which reset keys (i.e. taking over control of the accounts themselves) on a wide swath of accounts include those, and likely including a number of accounts which were not compromised. I barely avoided having my (non-compromised) accounts taken from me by a margin of a few hours difference in when I changed their keys.
Some will argue this was all done for community benefit because the 'ned' and 'dan' accounts were not the only ones compromised. I am severely skeptical of this point of view. In my opinion there is nearly no chance whatsoever that Steemit would have unilaterally pushed through a fork to rescue a bunch of accounts other than their own. It is possible witnesses may or may not have done so after considering the tradeoffs.
Oh wow. OK, was this during or around the same time as the cryptotalk forums or whatever they call themselves? Or after?
Posted using Partiko Android
A few months later than the original launch which mostly happened on the bitcointalk forum. Of course the bitcointalk forum still exists to this day but the Steem threads are not very active.
It is hard fork 9 to do this which was unilaterally pushed through by steemit voting out all other witnesses, and all of this is recorded on the blockchain.
Lol.
Turnabout coming to bite them in the ass.
If a fork goes forward absent stinc, with proof of brain, and most of the community, what exactly has been taken from stinc that was their's?
They keep the old fork with their coins, their proof of wallet is intact as quick as they spin up some witnesses to run it.
The community can decide which chain to support, we dont belong to stinc.
The new fork has taken nothing that isnt their's.
Let the community decide, i say.