SOS Daily News : news about the State of Steem @ 13 January 2019

One main topic dominating the news...

Steemit Inc powering down and @misterdelegation (ie Steemit Inc) withdrawing its delegations from @dsound, @musing and @sndbox.

Many posts, many opinions on all this. Read them and make your own decision.

And Ned appears...

Steemit Inc acts

After the surprise submission of @jnordberg's (aka @almost-digital) Hardfork 21 'Freedom' Pull Request that would nullify the stake of all the Steemit Inc accounts, Steemit Inc has acted swiftly.

The company has moved over one million liquid STEEM to the Bittrex exchange, and begun a power down of the rest of their undelegated Steem Power (34 million SP).

Alongside this Steemit Inc removed the @misterdelegation delegations to @dsound, @musing, @sndbox and a couple of smaller accounts.

The first reaction post came from witness #22 @therealwolf...

Dear Ned & Steemit Inc

Reaction posts followed from a number of other commentators including...

@krnel - Steemit is Powering Down 34 Million SP, Transferring to Bittrex, and Pulling Delegations - Why It's Good News!

@meno - Things I don't understand

@mindtrap - Just a few hours back @musing @dsound @sndbox got their delegations pulled away....and steemit account started a full power down...

@tarazkp - Another day another drama

@taskmaster4450 - First @ned And Now Steemit: The Powering Down Continues

@whatsup - Regarding the Github Issue to Fork out SteemIt Inc.'s Stake

Read. Absorb. Decide.

Ned pops up on Discord

Ned Scott, Steemit Inc CEO, made an unscheduled appearance on @aggroed's show on MSP Waves last night.

After typing a number of responses in chat, he was then persuaded to come on air.

Witness and long-time Steemit investor @fyrstikken and host @aggroed had a lively discussion with Ned for an hour or so.

One of Ned's main points was his desire to complete the developments to enable Hivemind and Communities to become a reality.

While still in chat he spelt out his current vision...

My vision is for Steemit Inc is steemit.com is vibrant communities web app with tokens/cryptocurrencies incentivizing and supporting the activities of those communities.
When we can get communities finished and SMTs -- then being on Discord and prompting our community members to "Let's get a X community going" will be great. My belief is we need more accessible tools that drive direct value of Steem -- I believe communities and steemit.com and smts are critical to this vision. There is a hivemind post coming out tomorrow, to that end.

Ned also agreed to look into options for enhancing communication channels with the community at large.

One possibility mooted was a Steemit Inc Discord server. Alternatively @fyrstikken suggested a forum.steemit.com setup. This could be built using @buildteam's TokenBB forum system that is currently being developed.

Look out for more information coming from Steemit Inc very soon...

Ned Lives! (Some May Consider That a B Horror Movie Title...)

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price	US$ 0.256	2019-01-14 04:27am UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.720	2019-01-14 04:27am UTC
Market Cap	US$ 79,168,128	2019-01-14 04:27am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#51 (n/c)	2019-01-14 04:27am UTC
No. of Whales	36 (n/c)	2019-01-12
No. of Orcas	315 (n/c)	2019-01-12
No. of Dolphins	1971 (+4)	2019-01-12
No. of Minnows	9098 (+3)	2019-01-12
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#4121 (-4)	2019-01-14 04:27am UTC