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Plus, purchasing enough stake to force vote their own witnesses via an exchange would definitely pump up the price of steem to at least $0.7 or more, making the purchase even harder.

That and the fact that steemit Inc could (and most likely, except they want the death of their platform) use their own stake to counter the hackers voting Power.

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