Can't blame anyone for not wanting to lose the money, but some are guilty of hipocrisy.

I am can't say exactly what happened for utopian to shut down, because I wasn't active here at the time. But I can say that it probably started when stinc retracted it's delegation.

But remember clearly that be independent from delegations/donations was part of @elear plans.

But one think I can say for sure: a doubt any of the whales that say that they want steemit to thrive looked after him to help find a way for @utopian-io not go down the drain.

That is value thrown in the garbage.