Sometime at the start of the Steem Torch chain, I heard about it and thought: "Great Experiment!" followed by: "How quick and how far will it go around our community?"

Then I was drawn into all sort of things outside Steemit and forgot all about it. Until this weekend! @leaky20 - someone who I met a few months ago and regularly meet on Steemit - contacted me with the message: "I like to pass the Steem Torch to you! Are you up for it?"

"WOW, what an honour!" This time I spoke out loud! :)

At shackle 128 we are still in the early stage of building the chain; Aiming at more than 1.300 shackles. To be exact: The aim is to get to 1.337 shackles. I have no idea why this number. I hoped it to be a prime number, or even better, a Mersenne prime number, but a quick calculation showed it is not.

Now I had a big question to answer: Whom to pass on the torch?

Quickly I found the answer: @mammasitta. Ofcourse! She was the first Steemian I met. It was during Amsterdam Dance Event when the first ever SteemFest was held in Amsterdam. That time I never ever heard of Steemit, and never ever heard of a social network build on a Bitcoin-like currency. I was not convinced immediately, and it took me another two to three months to get myself registered and another month or so to publish my first post. Ever since I'm an active member, almost every single day.

Unfortunately, @mammasitta - the super connector in our community - already carried SteemTorch, so I needed to find someone else.

Who else than the charming Italian couple the Beneforti's who I met on Steemit in my early days and who celebrated Kingsday (my countries biggest national celebration and party day where Orange is the key colour) with me through Steemit...

Since I could only pass the torch to one of the Beneforti's, I had to flip a coin with the winner being @paolobeneforti. Fortunately, Paolo kinda undone the coin flipping result by passing the SteemTorch to Silvia today. Super Cool, I think! :)

Let the Steem Torch continue to Burn