One Hundred Million Blocks on Hive!

I’d brag about signing the 100,000,000th block, but it wasn’t me - @deathwing nailed it ;-)
See for yourself: https://explore.openhive.network/block/100000000

Why this matters (even if you’re new here):

• Blocks are Hive’s heartbeat. At 3 seconds each, that’s ~28,800 blocks/day.
• 100,000,000 blocks ≈ 300,000,000 seconds ≈ 3,472 days ≈ 9.51 years of non-stop chain time.

Milestones & memories:

• 27 Hard Forks so far, and one of them absolutely EPIC: the birth of Hive.
• And yes, I get to brag here: I signed the block when Hive came into existence ;-)
• We’ve now produced more post-fork blocks than pre-fork (pre-fork total: 41,818,752).
• From “can we?” to “we did!” From a handful of apps to a thriving, mature ecosystem.

People & thanks:

Shout-out to fellow witnesses, devs, node operators, content creators, curators, and everyone who stuck around through the weird and the wonderful.
If you shipped code, kept nodes running, squashed a bug, wrote docs, or onboarded a friend - this is your win too! :-)

Muddy Confluence after Split

HiveFest 10 is around the corner. I’ll be there and would love to meet you and listen to your feedback.
It’s the first time in this decade that I’m flying to HiveFest instead of driving... which means it's a long way to go for Europeans.

And "I believe you can fly" too! It isn’t too late yet; tickets are still available, and even without one you can join us at ChainCulture

If you think it would be crazy to go at the last minute, then maybe you are right; but that’s another reason to join like-minded people ;-)

However, if you cannot join us in Kuala Lumpur, not all is lost. HiveBeeCon is coming to Kraków on 14-16 November.
But that is for another story. (I will post more once I'm back).

Status update and odds and ends ;-)

Mirrornet is running, HardFork 28 was applied there few times already (different instances). Minor bugs were found and fixed. 1.27.12-rc3 is now being tested. Hardfork date is set to late November but still subject to change. Test your apps against the new version (mirrornet), vote for witnesses (including me), vote for proposals (including the return proposal), be a decent human being.