About a month after joining the Steemit platform last year HF20 was implemented, I must say I was confused by the events that happened before and after the HF20 because I didn’t really know much about Steem then and was in a high learning curve to understand what was happening, actually, I am still learning. Lol.
I saw a lot of anger in some post I was reading, some said they were leaving Steem for other platform. One guy even invited me to join weku while another mentioned whaleshare to me. For me back then, I was still trying to get a hang on what Steem was all about, joining two more platforms would be making life more complicated so I just stuck with Steem.
I remember a day after the HF20 happened activities dropped a lot, loads of complained continued to flow in, I think that was a bug problem and it was resolved. After sometime, activities started picking up again. I remember SMT release date was shifted, later on we heard it would happen first quarter 2019, but, that is another story for another day.
I remember doing all I could to get to 1000 SP before SMT is implemented. Not that it meant much to me but when I joined the platform the price of Steem was in the $0.80 to $1 range and I felt 1000 Steem would be worth between $800 to $1,000 which I assumed will grow with time as I continued investing and remaining active on the platform.
My assumption were wrong in a way, the price of Steem started dropping, the management didn’t help matters because of the so much negative news that were been release as if they were meant to force the price of Steem down even further. The price continued to nose dive until it got to the 20 cents area.
So, for me HF20 saw huge price drop, a lot of people left, though some later came back when they saw some positive changes i.e. the Steem-Engine effects like more UI’s, token implementations and others. HF20 also saw the same management that told us it would solve loads of stuff, turning round and bombarding us with loads of bad news that was enough to wreck the whole system if not for the resiliency of most of the members and some of the management staff and their determination to make things work. Steem-Engine, Games, more UI’s and other new implementation by the new management team is bringing things back together again. Price of Steem is not perfect yet but it is holding its’ own around the 40 cents area.
HF21 is coming with all the arguments for and against it. I am pretty sure a lot of the experts have already made plans how they’ll weather the storm. But there are a lot of us that are not experts on hard forks’, especially new members that are still finding their feet in this already complicated platform and have not gone through a HF on Steem yet.
What are we to do? Should we panic and run like the Zebras in the cartoon film “The Lion Guard” or should we be brave like The Lion Guard team members?
What do you think members should do before and after HF21.
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