Consequences of this?
The value of DEC goes down. It was not actually meant to be a store of value but what does that mean for purchasing cards with DEC? You will on average need more DEC to buy cards and with the BETA cards running out expect that to increase significantly.
Maybe it will be easier to buy potions in the shop now with DEC bought from Steem-Engine since it will be a lot more cheaper.
Is there any other incentive to hold DEC or earn DEC in the long term?
The voting bot was mostly just passing DEC around between buyers and delegators, it wasn't much of a sink and shouldn't have much effect on the value. DEC's main value comes from buying orbs and potions.
#sbi-skip