I support and run this update on my witness @roelandp. It has been an intense 10 days but great worker with a big group of long term Steem stakeholders, consisting of investors, community members, witnesses.

I will issue my own views shortly on my account - but the gist is:

1. This is a preventive temporarily measure - softfork nonetheless
2. The Steemit inc stake is a special fund, just like @steem.dao is and should have had been coded with special ruleset long time ago.
3. Mixed signals from the new owner of the Steemit stake rise the risks in irreversible use of the stake.
4. Again: this is temporal and done for the s(t)ake of the Steem chain. Your chain, our chain.