📍Pi Network: “Lock tokens to accelerate mining” and the backlash from the community

📌 A mining acceleration campaign has just been launched by Pi Network: Those who accept to lock tokens for the long term will have their mining speed boosted – potentially up to 200%. However, instead of creating a positive effect, this move has caused an explosive backlash from the community.

📌 The project team's timing is truly poor. The price of $PI has just dropped 28% over the past month, nearing an all-time low of $0.34. This August, 160M $PI will be unlocked - the largest amount ever. Locking more tokens at this moment is no different from calling on users to imprison their money while the team still hasn't delivered anything specific.

📌 Many users, despite having completed KYC and being eligible, have not yet been migrated to the mainnet, and their wallets still show pending. Meanwhile, tools like Pi App Studio or Pi Domains are almost "gathering dust", the roadmap remains vague, and no one knows when it will be listed on major exchanges like Binance or Coinbase.

📌 Looking deeper, this could be a move to “delay the crisis” – keeping users from selling off while the price is in a severe downtrend. But when the applications are still not running, the listing schedule remains a mystery, and trust in the core team is dwindling, calling for “locking tokens to receive virtual rewards” may have come too late.