as expected, the bitcoin universe was split in two, mainly between East and West.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-fork-happens-2017-8

I personally expect that Bitcoin Cash will suck up all the market cap that was in Bitcoin, because Segwit2x is a clusterf*ck of security issues. Both coins are now almost certainly going to lose market share to Dash, LTC, Monero, Ripple, and the rest, because, basically, Bitcoin sucks.

I'm pleased that it's finally over, my mining payments, via Shapeshift, just came through and I now have another 0.47 dash in my dash wallet.

Looks like I'm probably going to be staying in Sofia at least for the next 6 months for sure - and now that I've got a new cunning plan to build the killer distributed application system, maybe I will even manage to raise the funds to build my evil lair in Siberia yet...

And, there is some signs of the higher ups in Steem Land realising that their premined SP was wrongfully gained and maybe they are going to fork Steem. I hope they do like Golos and migrate the accounts to a crispy fresh chain and set a new rule to directly pay @steemit to pay their bills and get this thing ship-shape.

It's a beautiful day.