so, it has been one week since the bitcoin hard fork, less than that since everything was reactivated into being normal trading & paying, look what happened & where everything is now - quite incredible - i am fairly new to following, buying & trading crypto-currencies, so i was not sure what to expect, I pulled everything out of bitcoin, but i did not keep it in cash, i dropped it into other versions of crypto & you know what, it worked out pretty well - steem was one of my selections - there was not much to fear - learning & having some level of knowledge, helped me decide to make the decision that i made, but more knowledge was needed to make an even better decision, stay in & buy more - maybe next time - keep reading & listening every one