Will the Hive airdrop will only be performed on the current version of the Steem blockchain as of Tuesday March 17 2020 ?

Steem has pumped like anything, and is currently getting lot of attention. The most believed assumption is that people are buying steem to get the HIVE tokens. However, I was just thinking, could there be something different ?

If you go and see the announcement post then it clearly says The Hive airdrop will only be performed on the current version of the Steem blockchain (as of the date of this post) and the post was written on Tuesday March 17 2020. So is it true that the air drop will only consider the snapshot till March 17 ? What will happen to all the steem that is being bought now ?

@blocktrades or anyone else can answer please ?