The truth is, to reach high witness ranks like top 30-35, you need to convince/impress an enormous amount of stake to vote for you. Rank 35 is about 25.5 million HIVE as I'm writing this, top 20 is 60 million HIVE. These numbers are incredibly high. And if you managed to get that much stake to rally behind you, because they like what you do and trust you with governance issues.
Yeah except the only reason why these numbers are so inflated is because Justin Sun attacked us and we all felt obligated to vote blindly for the top witnesses. I assume that's why you started at rank 30. I guess we can worry about our stagnant witnesses later, as the topic at hand is the SPS which wasn't affected nearly as much.
The optics of funneling the ninjamine do not look good from the outside looking in.
We probably should have just destroyed the coins, even if it only looks bad due to ignorance.