Community is what I value about Steem the most, so I don't really check the STEEM price very often. It's easier to do for me because I do not invest my money to get a return from Steem. Instead, I contribute my time and get a return of:
What I value is a reliable, highly redundant environment where I can place my content.
What is more, thanks to guys like 
Well, price does not matter to me that much. It will one day, I hope, but at the moment STEEM in my digi-purse is a measure of recognition, and for that I thank you. But I scrolled the Live Coin Watch page to see this:
If you don't know what this represents, it's fine. This is the way of showing contributions to the code repositories that Steemit is hosting on a service called GitHub: https://github.com/steemit. The colour of the square represents amount of contributions to the code. White squares mean zero (or close to it) and this got me worried.
I understand drop in commits of code around the price plunge before November. I understand the break around Christmas. I am happy that people finally started getting their weekends to themselves (from the looks of it). But what happened two weeks ago that caused a halt on commits?
I checked some repositories with recent activity:
The stats look as if it all went very quiet for https://github.com/steemit/steem. I checked recent commits:
That's not a lot. I moved over to condenser:
Better, but still not awesome. One commit this week and silent otherwise.
But now I thought: are the stats showing only main line of code on master? Let's see steem's branches:
Source: github.com
Eight branches worked on in the last two days? That's not so bad.
Branches are used to gradually build a complete bundle of changes to deliver a specific feature. Could it be that...
Looks like I got fooled by numbers. Looks like the focus is on delivering MIRA and since the main feature branch has already been merged, fixes and improvements are being worked on. Yay!
Thank you 
Time to bake some bread. Steem on!
Since you've made it that far, check out the #breadbakers community with the main caretaker account 
