Back to Business (?)
Hey there dear Steemians!
It feels like it's been ages since I was last active in here, although it's only been a few days of only fast check ins. The hardfork mess, which is still going on, came at a perfect time for me, because I just moved apartments at the same time. If I wasn't busy and excited with all the packing, moving and unpacking, I would have probably been refreshing Steemit every few seconds and being frustrated.
But now, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!
I got the keys to the new apartment yesterday afternoon, and with the help of my little brother and mom, we got everything moved here in a few hours. I spend last night and all day today unpacking, and everything is finding it's place quite nicely. I have hardly even checked my phone, I've been just listening to music and audiobooks while building my new home. There is still lots to do, and I don't even own a table, and my huge balcony only has empty boxes now. I really want to be able to use it before winter comes! I'm already in love with the apartment, the amount of light I get here is just amazing, I can't wait to start shooting, I already have a lot of ideas. I'm still going to be spending a lot of time doing apartment stuff for the next couple days, and having a bit of social media cleanse, but I am not far and I'm coming back soon!
What have I missed?
Are we calming down after the hardfork? Is the system any better? Who said what to whom? Spill the T! Im here with my cup of tea, lounging on a divan, going to dive in for some social media and chill.
You've missed a total freeze for everyone except for the biggest whales. The main part of HF20 was a system called Resource Credits which is a way to track how expensive various transactions are in terms of network resources. Every account is afforded a budget of Resource Credit Mana (Mana is the unit of account here) based on their Steem Power that replenishes from 0 to 100% in five days just like Steem Power now. The most active users had incurred RC and Voting Mana debt and had their respective Manas at insane negative values. Almost nobody could do shit. A patch was released to reset all negative values to zero. Even now Planktons can't do much. Then they decided to release another patch increasing everybody's RC by 10x. That will take effect very soon. Resource Credits may be a good thing in the long run but the way this hardfork was implemented was a major fuckup in the opinion of many people. It wasn't adequately tested before going live. Going tenting in the sticks without electricity for a week would've been a great move at this stage.
There's a lot of discussion about what's the best compromise between fighting spam and not excluding newbies. There are many points to consider depending on the time perspective one is looking at this from. For scaling and monetization of network resources, some kind of tracking of and an internal market for resource consumption is a great thing. On the other hand there will be no scaling if newbies can't do shit without forking out hundreds of dollars of cash - most people will not look at Steem twice if they learn that they have to pay to play without being able to use the system in some reasonable capacity first. Now there's a system in place whose parameters can be tweaked according to the demands of any situation. But it's been a shitty week for nearly everyone and how Steemit Inc has been handling communication to the user base has been less than stellar. At first, they declared the HF a success even though 99,99 of the users could not literally interact with the blockchain at all except read. Then things were supposed to normalize in five days. Turns out they weren't going to, so patches have been released. Because folks have had their RC and Voting Manas in the gutter on Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday, much fewer upvotes have been given. However, the chain keeps spitting out rewards like clockwork which is why I suppose we will see some weird rewards next week. So, you shouldn't stop voting because you're not at the magical 100%, yet.
I was here to see the total freezing out of majority of the accounts. I thought 6000sp would even let me comment but nope, nothing. I'm glad I was kind of prepared for some mishaps, but nothing close to this magnitude.
I don't really get why the voting power is so fucked up right now. When I first got back in, I was definitely at a 100% VP after doing nothing for 24hours, and I put out a 100% vote, which should be around 0.26cents, it was now 0.7 and immediately dropped the VP to 20%. Pretty fucked up. I think I will mostly refrain from voting until I'm back to 100%, for real. But it surely will be very interesting to see what the next week will bring up and how long will it take to get everything stabilised. Trying to see the good in this, I think people use more time for real interactions in the comments, because the voting is all wacky now.
Here is the jist of what happened from my perspective:
Wow, there is only one person in my feed for the last 12 hrs! Interesting...
It's back, addiction can be fed! One post + 4 comments and...crap.
Forced silence for 24 hrs with a feed full of doomsday.
Then the green bar shifted from West to East. All is well.
If I had been moving into an exciting apartment my time would have been better spent. Congrats on the new place.
Nice place! Looks like a very comfortable atmosphere.
hides a stack of boxes behind her back
Thank you, I'm really into styling this apartment, it has great potential!
We getting there but still slow and a lot of drama going around. Eheheh a couple more days and all will be back to normal.
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Don't even try to deny it, I know you like a little drama ;)
Unless the drama it is because of me I am over it lol I am too old for that already lllol
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Its nice knowing how you feel at the Hardfork experience, Well We still have red bar.
I don't know about you but I have missed that naked Finnish chick, you picked the right time to move! It's been a real shit show around here.
I've missed her too, but she'll be back soon! :)
Oh i was away for quite some time as well and just having a careful look into the steem network right now. :3
But hey esp in your case, such a break can also be very nice and refreshing, no? :)
Definitely, I don’t mind having a little down time, as long as it doesn’t last too long!