Presently, Binance, Huobi, and Poloniex (which is partially owned by Sun) staked tokens they controlled in order to vote for a new slate of witnesses. Presumably, the lion's share of these tokens is technically owned by users of these platforms, not the exchanges themselves. A tweet shows large accounts powering up tokens in advance of voting in the new slate of witnesses. Luke Stokes, a witness who has tracked exchange data for STEEM for years, verified that the accounts were related to these exchanges. Then the accounts enacted a new version of Steem software, version 22.5, which released the tokens controlled by Steemit. In large part, these tokens quickly flowed into exchange accounts allowing them to increase their vote for Steem's new leaders. For context, the Steemit STEEM holdings have been an issue within the community for some time. Lanparty said Witnesses have previously discussed hard forks in order to remove the threat of a takeover by the company. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/why-crypto-should-care-about-justin-suns-steem-drama

**Inside The Cryptocurrency Revolution.** Bitcoin’s emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But while fledgling investors obsess over every fluctuation in the cryptocurrency market, nation-states are more interested in the underlying blockchain technology and its ability to revolutionize how business is done on the internet and beyond. **VICE's Michael Moynihan travels to Russia with Vitalik Buterin, inventor of the ethereum blockchain**, to get a front-row seat to the geopolitical tug of war over Internet 3.0. *Source: Vice on HBO*