You can chat with me on Telegram at https://t.me/steempunk and I am about to switch to Busy.org, as I also caught out eSteem in 'minor' mischief, and chainbb also in more major, but not so mischievous mischief.

I was working on Dawn, precisely because of these suspicions, which my post-alcoholic brain-in-transition has driven me to such intensive thinking, has now got even more, substantial evidence in the form of game mechanics 'bugs' that allow this exploitation. See my recent post about the number 19 and Dan Larimer, for some somewhat crazy coincidences and semiotics, and my post about eSteem also lays out a rough sketch of the game mechanics 'flaws' and how they play out.

Dawn will not be a controllable blockchain. Whether I decide to implement it or not, really depends on opportunity and resources. I have @faddat back from the near self destruction of his life in Cambodia, who is now starting the path of eliminating the causes of his neurological/psychiatric problems, and I have good reason to believe he may a powerful future ally, when he has made progress to recovering his health.

I can't specifically point to any pro or con citations about this, I just remember one of the steem-coop guys, who is a mathematician, and deeply interested in game theory, started talking about multi-party prisoner's dilemmas. The cogs ticked over and the conclusions started to arise.

So, first port of call for you will be in looking into multi-party prisoners' dilemmas. Then look at how the witness game, the blockchain itself in its infancy, and the growing problem in the 'community' of more and more exploitative, malicious and vicious players.

Not only that, I suspect that specific accounts at steemit.chat had a hit put on them using a hacker-for-hire, and after being 'smacked down' in a particular issue report I made at the steemit github, which mind you, Issue does not mean bug in the simple sense but can also mean logic errors that lead to exploits - I have also been blocked from posting more.

After thinking even further through, I am glad now that I took down my witness, because it would have allowed the breach of my l0k1 account, if they could breach steemd, and then, the docker between them and the file containing the sensitive data.

I had a dream this morning, that someone had their fingers in my wallet and were trying to scoop coins out of it. Then it changed into my leather key-wallet. Pretty big warning, I think. Note that I had effectively restrained them, in the dream, and the last thoughts before awakening were that I had to shut these robbers down for good (the dream ones). Same as the ones outside the dream.