Hello there beautiful humans!

Welcome to my last post on the Steem blockchain.

Don't worry; this is a happy thing!

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In case you've been offline for the last month, in that time Steemit Inc. was sold to TRON, tons of weird and contradictory news was released by TRON, our community witnesses put in SF 0.22.2 in an attempt to stop a hostile takeover, TRON got 3 exchanges (Huobi, Poloniex, Binance) to help them commit a hostile take-over anyway, the community "got out the vote" more than ever to stop Tron's consensus, and now we've been at something of a stand-still for almost 2 weeks.

Since it has become abundantly clear that @JustinSunSteemit and the Tron Foundation are totally untrustworthy bad actors, the Steem community has announced a hard-fork to a new blockchain, called Hive. This new chain will be a true hard-fork, meaning everyone on Steem will have the same account, keys, and balances (as of the snapshot at launch [10am EST, Friday, March 20th]), except for the Steemit Inc. Ninja-Mined Staked.

Hive has the full support of dozens of devs, witnesses, and the vast majority of the Steem community. I'm pretty sure that this new, more decentralized, more community-centric version of our chain will also lead to the return of thousands of folks who we haven't seen around recently. Combine that with the all-time high of media coverage we have thanks to the attack by TRON, and we are looking to be in excellent shape folks!

Personally, I am extremely excited about this move, and think it couldn't have happened at a better time (except maybe sometime in the past haha.) I've got a pretty simple, but very specific plan for what I will be doing once the fork happens:

I'm feeling a lot of gratitude and respect for so many in our community, who have basically dedicated the last month of their lives to protecting our digital home, and creating this exit strategy for us.

Just to name a few, I want to give a big THANK YOU to Hive account@aggroed, Hive account@blocktrades, Hive account@lukestokes, Hive account@theycallmedan, Hive account@ura-soul, Hive account@roelandp, Hive account@therealwolf, Hive account@acidyo, Hive account@someguy123, Hive account@steempeak, Hive account@minnowsupport, Hive account@r0nd0n, and many others! (If I didn't mention you, it's just because these were the first few off the top of my head)