It is always great to see progress being made. These updates are very helpful in a time when there is a lot of negativity surrounding the crypto sphere. I am glad the development is going forward as planned.

Establishing the testnet is vital. We do not want a repeat of HF20 and giving the Witnesses the tools to test what they need to (along with the app developers who are not witnesses) will hopefully alleviate some problems. I am glad to see the Steemit team stepping up on the development end. This allows us to push the Witnesses to do their due diligence with any code that is brought out.

Thanks for the update.