Well hive news that you hear is mostly all rumor, there is nothing concrete other than a hard fork is incoming, which is a regular and nothing but a software update.

Regarding land card: now I figured out the main bottleneck, and it is Cinder!

The trouble is, if I burn those cheap CL cards, then those are gone, and never coming back. Since I have empty plots to put them in, I am left with a difficult choice, it is prudent to burn them to get 6 total card (land cards). Or to keep them and turn on 100 plots, but block 100 * $40 or about $4000 in DEC, for a 10% return?