Witness update:

I briefly lost the faith when all three exchanges were voting on behalf of the attacker, which allowed the attacker to pile on with the stake in @steem and @steemit. I did not restart my witness node with 0.22.1 code like many others. The version 0.22.4444 protest did not seem much of a protest to me if it was backup witnesses signing blocks on a chain controlled by the attacker.

However, with the community pulling together and CZ of Binance doing the right thing, there is hope. Bringing back a witness server almost from scratch takes a while and it will be online within a day. Edit: My witness node is back online.