I'm in maintenance mode and in the process of configuring a new steemd (MIRA) instance. While running the blockchain replay, a witness needs to change his signing key to let the network know that his node might not be available for some time.

Just to let you know, a 'disabled' witness status does not always signal a complete shutdown.

Perhaps you will write another post with your current views?

I will do, but I prefer to take some time for me to think about what is really happening. All the dust makes it hard to see the truth clearly at this moment. The old witnesses are still attacking and milking this blockchain, that's a fact. None of them should be running a node on Steem, as they decided to work on Hive. I will keep investigating...

See you (hopefully) later ;)