Witnesses need to coordinate with HitBTC and Poloniex to fix this problem with the wallets. I don't suppose STEEM Inc is going to do it.
By the way, I have a challenge for witnesses.
I have a collective of Witness Votes if a witness gets STEEM or SBD on a major exchange. I would consider fixing the wallets on HitBTC or Poloniex the equivalent to redeem the witness votes.
Witnesses have no special power to get that done. Some witnesses have contacts at exchanges but the cost of getting a token on an Exchange can run around 20 BTC.
You are correct.
This is a challenge that will be rewarded for any witness that can make it happen. Like you pointed out it would be a tough challenge. I am not expecting for a witness to pay for it, but instead to use their influence. I want to get the reward large enough to make the effort worth it. It wouldn't hurt anything anyway. At least this effort would get people to think about voting for witnesses. Chances are that a few readers would actually spend the time to vote which otherwise they would never think twice about it.
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