Yes, I know many accounts worth more than 10k or even 100k STEEM.
If account owner don't have time/ don't want to wait 3 months to pwer down, someone else could buy account with STEEM and than wait 3 months to get SP to STEEM.
First account get STEEM fast, buyer can get cheaper STEEM.
Just account name can be worth much. I would pay few thousand STEEM for account like @randowhale.
Seller would get all STEEM 2.5 months earlier, but would still have to wait for 31 days to clear so that the seller could not collect tokens and change owner password.
Every transaction across the block-chains can be traced with enough time. I can guarantee that if I was using it as an exit scam someone with hacking skills would track down the person withdrawing the USD.
When are you going to turn the voting back on for SteemSnake?
Have you thought of a daily post we could upvote as a thank you for your service? It could show who got the highest score in the last 24 hours and who played the most.
Steem Snake's voting bot will be re-enabled when v2.0 will be released.
Maybe I will start with daily posts in future.