Well... this last week has been a bit of a whirlwind, with the HIVE/STEEM split and the ongoing Coronavirus soft lockdown in The Netherlands. It really feels like the world has been turned upside down!
On the Corona-virus front, The Netherlands is in a restricted mode... and there is lots of work from home sort of things going on. On a personal front, all my concerts were cancelled, and we are hunkering down for a bit of a low income period, luckily our expenses are also a bit on the low side of things.
It has been interesting to see what has been selling out at our local supermarket. Potatoes, Flour, lemons, Greek Yoghurt, Milk, Cereal, butter and eggs. I guess people are planning to make a gigantic cake every day! Still, most of it is pretty benign... in a few days the shelves should restock anyway, as far as I understand it, it is a demand spike, not a crisis of supply! Although, these things are changing pretty quickly... just last week, everything was normal here!
The daily death counter due to Corona is about 30 per day, with 500 new declared infections each day (testing is still quite low here)... it's still in hand, but we will see if we head down the path of Italy or Madrid. Hopefully not!
There has been a proposal to help out self-employed people (like us...) with a monthly minimum wage supplement. This was after the initial reaction of "screw you, you should have saved up money for adverse situations...)... If I hear another salaried person say that, I'm going to kill them!
All in all... we have had a week of homeschooling and the recommendations to work from home and less travelling around (and no work...), it isn't that bad... I guess it could be much worse! What I will find interesting is how many people will come to the realisation that their work which takes up so much of their time... possibly isn't that fulfilling and worthwhile?! This could lead to quite big changes in society if it continues for quite a long time... That could be quite interesting!
This morning we took the chance to have a nice walk in the part with the scooters... it's nice to be able to get out of the house whilst we aren't in a hard lockdown (even if it is deceptively sunny... it was FREEZING!). Apparently it will drop back down to minus temperatures next week...
I am trying to keep away from Facebook and Twitter as it is full of public health experts and "on the ground" reports! Which are hilariously terrible... Local anecdotes are interesting and eye-catching... but not what you need for long-term and widespread planning!
Hive and Steem has been a interesting event... I'm a bit split on the whole thing. I want Hive to succeed, but it really does rely on the old witnesses coming through and really making it something... rather than a return to the status quo of being kings/queens in a small corner of the cryptosphere! This is of course matched against the might of the SUN juggernaut... I disagree with much of what he has done... but it isn't always the good people or the best technology that ends up winning! Speaking of which, I should review my witness votes again now that we are out of the emergency vote for NOT-TRON situation.
There was something a little sad that I saw in the blacklist... that 
At the moment, both chains are a bit janky for me... so, I think I will just sit back and do some thinking... maybe write an article or two for the normal sort of payments (not votes on reward distrubution, but good old fashioned one to one transaction!)
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