Goodbye

it's been a long strange journey but in one way I am sort of relieved it's ending here, time for me to say good bye to #oldsteem and hello to #newsteem! Ha, how many of you did I get? Anyway wanted to take some time to quickly write a post about my current situation, I went on MSP waves tonight listening to the amazing @crimsonclad hosting her Full Force Radio Show which I recommend anyone to go and listen in, and it turns out a lot of people think that I am quitting Steem. Hmm, which is weird cause not many have even bothered asking what's up as I'm assuming it's due to them looking at my powerdown and instantly thinking I'm out of here. Oh well.

So to be a bit more open about what I've been doing with my powerdowns lately, many of you may know I've been powered up for the longest time and even was as naive as to think Steem can't drop any lower than $2 when I powered up about 20k SP in early 2018 and been a Steem shill ever since I've been a minnow and that has not changed. Why? Cause our blockchain is awesome. Steemit as much as we like to hate them have worked hard on keeping our blockchain amazing and preparing for mass adoption, so fucking bring it!

To keep it short, I'd be an idiot not to take the opportunity to trade in these markets, why would I trade? Well it's a lot faster than earning Steem and it brings in some Steem back from the markets. Sure it's a bit riskier but oh well, no risk no reward. There have also been some costs I've had to cover that caught me by surprise but nothing I can do about that other than trying to use my trading profits for them so I don't have to get rid of Steem (especially at these prices). Other than that there's a project that will be announced soon that I'm going to be one of the founders of, so keep an eye out for that. ;)

I'm probably going to keep my powerdown going for a bit longer, @ocdb is fully non-profit and I will have to help @anomadsoul feed it liquids so that it can pay out curation rewards to the delegators, we have some exciting changes for it for HF21 as well which I hope you guys will like. Other than that I'm buying stake in @ocd to liquidate the curators rewards so they don't have to wait 13 weeks for the powerdowns (why didn't we lower the full powerdown timer in this HF again? it's so annoying being this long).

So that's basically why I am powering down lately, I may realize it may have looked a bit bad at quick glance seeing the big powerdowns + not posting much lately but honestly I've just been super #busy. At the same time I'm preparing for HF21 so you don't have to read my mediocre posts as often as the new incentives will allow curators to earn more rewards without trying to post as much, but I still will every now and then cause it's something I've come to enjoy over the years and interacting with all of my followers. I am really looking to all the other changes of the HF and hoping many of you will make the most out of it to make Steem as fair and awesome as possible, I have a long list of good Steemians I'm gonna look out for that have deserved the curvy rewards. :)

I'm also really excited about Steem in general, so much going on lately dumping just to dump at these prices would be crazy.

Hope ya'll are doing well and everything goes well with the fork in the chain.