When this fork discussion came up, it was for the purpose of discussing how to change the fact that steemit inc has the controlling interest in it's stake, thus more or less centralizing control of the steem blockchain. Well, now steemit inc is powering down their stake, thus giving up their controlling interest in the blockchain. So, in effect, the people who were discussing this issue have managed to produce the result that they were discussing. As for how this will turn out, who knows?
I did forget one thing. Another aspect was the fact that maybe they weren't actually going to sell it, but make it so that really nobody knows where their stake lies now that it's mixed with exchanges. If that's the case, then it's not clear if anything changed other than transparency. However, leadership has reached out and... Well, let's see how it goes.
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