Some of what I have read on what happened to me with the theft of Blurt from my @r2cornell account seems be trying to place blame on me. So be it.
Prior to this happening I was undelegating BP for some of my accounts and then sending the Blurt to my main accounts to power-up. My plan is that there would no longer be any delegating and each of my accounts being used for curating would have its own BP. The main aim was to have the 3 main curation accounts to have 1 million BP each and no delegations. @scilwa has not been used for curating for awhile so the power down at the time was to be moved to the other accounts.
I have no idea how the theft occurred. I think I read someone that insinuated it being an "inside job"... WTF! I thought my reputation was better than that.
I have been very careful not to place blame for what has happened on Blurt. The blame is on the damn thief, and no reflection on Blurt. I would appreciate the same courtesy.
I was very angry and yes after the theft I started powering down everything. I since slowed that process down. You will find a little of my planning in a post I just recently uploaded.
https://blurt.blog/r2cornell/@dsc-r2cornell/discontinuation-of-the-r2cornell-curation-project
I do not think I blamed anything on Blurt in this publication.
I would also like to point out that the price of Blurt has been dropping long before the theft took place. I know because I paid a lot for some of my Blurt. The price kept dropping. No one's fault as far as I can see. Just what was going on in the market. If the price has been dropping for sometime now, that means that there were other sellers all along. So please do not blame me for pushing the price down. I recently bought some Blurt on Probit because the price was too low, from other sellers.
I had my computer tech look things over on my computer. My main computer is server grade with security software to match. To be safe we changed security software. My tech in the 15 years he has been keeping my system and network up and running cannot figure out how my system could be hacked.
I feel like I am having to defend myself for some of what has been said about me...or in the least insinuating. I am now feeling I should not have discontinued the power-downs.
BTW prior to the theft my curators were still working, and I had no plans on making any other changes other than moving Blurt around. I paid a fee for those moves.
sorry if you feel attacked. The whole situation results from the fact that you decided to withdraw the project right after the hack seemed a bit suspicious. This decision, whether you added any words or not, looks like a tacit statement that you think Blickchain Blurt is to blame and that you don't feel your funds are safe here.
You have been in the crypto environment for a long time and you have probably also noticed that some people in the world of finance and cryptocurrencies cannot be trusted because they say one thing and do another, or in the interest of one project they can ruin another.
No one is saying this is the case here, but you can't blame people for checking your transactions and wondering how true your words are, especially in the face of a decision that suggests there is something wrong with our blockchain.
@mariuszkarowski also has a large investment here and such an event also affects his wallet. And that's why I'm just wondering what the actual situation is.
Of course, it was not only your withdrawal that influenced the price drop. Most likely, the signal for some was a sudden whistling caused by the thief withdrawing his funds. But you must admit that recently, especially on the Hive engine, the situation looks like the screenshot below:
It's also very good that you're joining this discussion because, to be honest, there was no major comment from you in this situation, and if you think that the security breach could have actually occurred on Blurt's part and you have some theory as to how it happened, your cooperation would be appreciated. pages to help figure out how this happened.
Since I consider myself an honorable person, I personally believe that in such a situation, if it turned out to be the fault of Blockchain security, the community and the team should be willing to help refund at least part of the losses incurred as a sign of solidarity.
Especially since many authors here on Blurt owe you a lot because you supported them with your votes almost from the beginning.
For me personally, Blurt is a platform to which I decided to devote more heart than to its predecessors, because for me it is a better version of both predecessors, and it makes me sad to see one of the curators make such a decision.
So I hope that after this comment you will understand the reaction of some people.