your investigative work is excellent @ura-soul. great to see! so if they knew before hand, what exactly were they trying to buy time for is the question? there is something on that exchange that they need off quickly. not quite managed to figure out what yet, maybe steem they needed to trade out to pay ned? maybe someone else? I also think that it may have occurred that putting in the HF (if run by Tron) for short power downs would have made it easy power down the steemit inc stake, send it to exchanges and hide it effectively by sending it back out to multiple smaller accounts.