I appreciate your thoughtful reply. As @menerva already said, I also believe that you raised several issues that I need to think about.

I have not thought of OTC possibilities. While I still believe that the possibility is close to zero, it is still something that is worthy considering.

And for the 8888 part: I plan to write a separate article, but let me briefly write what I think:

• It is not an attempt to protect the downward pressure on STEEM price - this softfork merely delays STEEMs from these accounts to be used before the further discussion/investigation to be done. As you pointed out, these STEEM may even get sold at higher prices. If we were to remove the downward pressure, we would have confiscated these accounts, like what HIVE did right after (or during) the "hardfork".

• Revenge: again, not really. If it were to be a revenge, we would have included a lot more accounts like known spammers (xxxxxxxxxx), etc. And we would not have included more "neutral"/"conservative" accounts like roelandp.