Insider trading.

My original account on steemit was deliberator which I sold when it went down to $1 from the peak of $8 ish. I was at times critical of steemit and the foundations of it via articles on steemit.
There were many insider accounts as I said then, and will state as fact again, anything or any account pre launch that was on the site before it launched is suspect.
Our own @freedom account on here that sits idle and has never voted, never spoken, never even been logged into (I suspect) is one such account.
You may note that freedom on steemit was the "main" account delegating to bidbots on there, similar to vote trading on here that I do not use or know how to use.
Once the community decided on steemit that bidbots were bad steemit not long after was sold.

I count 6 freedom accounts that ninja mined steem via a pow, there maybe more, I just could not be bothered to look.
https://steemd.com/@freedom?page=194

Berniesanders.

That account was at the center of controversy when I joined, the reputation was minus 16, I guess this post might be hard to follow if you do not know about reputation scores, they went up or down on steemit based on monetary vote weight up or down.
The berniesanders account always argued with Ned a founding father of the site alongside Dan who talked the former into being the "face" of the site and public whipping boy for criticism.
The bernie account was also ninja mined before release so I suspect it was ned or dan's alter ego like jeckyl and hide.

https://steemd.com/@berniesanders?page=5655

Why do I think bernie was an insider account? At times the account seemed to have excellent tech knowledge, at other times admitted to having none, if none, how did it mine? And we can clearly see from the page above it did. Also at times that account spoke like a girl in female American slang, at times like a boy, at times leaning left towards gay people, at times abusive, at times (most of the time) outright rude, like multiple people logged in and ran the account for fun and or drama. I counted over 200 alt accounts for bernie including charlesmanson. Nextgencryto was also a vindictive account run by the same people, there were over a 100 of them accounts also set up by the berniesanders (crew) cult, ned/dan.

Smooth was another account created pre launch that had hundreds of alt accounts ninja mining. Ninja mining = mined before the public could. https://steemd.com/@smooth?page=310

When I say ned was talked into it, I can use neds own steemd to show he had not a single clue how steemit worked, or the concept of it here.

dantheman transfer 1 STEEM to ned another demo Apr 15 '16
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dantheman transfer 1 STEEM to ned thanks bro!

https://steemd.com/@ned?page=384

The "thanks bro" came before the "another demo" quote, he was showing ned how the concept worked, and thanking him for taking the whipping boy public face puppet job.
I must admit I did feel sorry for ned at times when everyone on the site hated him, dan publicly fell out with him and left him to take a beating, whilst behind the scenes Dan had never really left.

You can see from day 1 and page 1 of dan's account history he was a big fan of down-voting people, nasty vindictive little man he was, but publicly he was upvoting people with money, with tokens, looking like the good guy by throwing some coins to peasants every now and again, while ned was not allowed to do the same. https://steemd.com/@dan?page=128

8 of the first ten actions Dan did was downvote people.

There were many accounts ninja mined by a handful of people on steemit, hive is no different as it forked the same coins to the same bad actors, so did blurt.
I am not having a go at blurt for that neither, it is ethical though self harming as they dump the coins.
I do not claim to know a better way of forking a site, so I will leave it at that.

But think about this, when the founding father, the inventor was so way inclined to down vote 8 out of ten people on his first day, what kind of precedent does it set?

Sure azircon, themarkymark et al all joined later, but when a culture is nurtured towards vindictive removing of rewards, there is no way back!

There are many accounts started pre launch, I do not have the time or inclination to list them all, I covered the bad actors when I was on steemit, maybe one day I shall dig them old posts out, but I doubt it, better things to do.

Off for a ride on a motorbike now. Have a superb day ahead.