RIP Steemit

4:22am (New York)

It's been a few days and mostly sleepless nights since I saw the Binance announcement to support the Hive airdrop and KNEW right away that it was a huge, momentous opportunity for Hive to begin the process to attempt to secure asset listings with top exchanges, potentially saving what could amount to millions of dollars in listings fees that a new project would likely face.

The crypto industry's weakness: a true community-driven, decentralized project.

My goal since Wednesday: to see as much green as possible below by working exchange contacts and connections that I have built up over the past two years working professionally in the crypto industry.

Still not able to sleep, I open Steemit.com for the first time in 2 days and immediately feel my stomach sink, while a feeling of sadness and grief quickly washes over me.

Steemit: a website, a blog, a home, a place that I love(ed) has basically died.

Steemit meant the world to me.

Steemit freed me from a desk job that I had to escape.

Steemit gave me the opportunity to travel all over the world and meet amazing people and make amazing friends.

My path to Steemit was not easy.

It took almost 6 months, from meeting Hive account@ned for 2 minutes at a conference in May of 2017 in New York City, to claw my way into a official Manager of Business Development position with Steemit, Inc..

All of which, I could not have done without my hometown friend and technical associate Hive account@adept who tragically passed away in his sleep in early in February 2018, only 1 week after we finally signed the deal with Steemit, Inc. and Hive account@ned to work business development, exchange relationships, and developer outreach support.

As excited as I am with the early success of Hive, I feel equally as sad with what seems to be the official death of Steemit as we used to know it.

Hive account@birdinc