HomeEdders News: a Farewell, the Blockchain and a Community Update
It's certainly been a tumultuous time for the Steem blockchain, leading uncertainty about its future. Activity has been low from many as we try and decide whether Steem, as we have known it thus far, has a future. Sadly it has been the breaking point for a few people and that includes @crosheille, who has been my biggest support in my journey with this community. It was quite a blow to read her departing post and she will be very much be missed by many.
I've been weighing what the future holds if the blockchain splits and Steem eventually merges with Tron while the original Steem community starts on a new path. With this being a community account, my loyalties lie with the HomeEdders first, so I while my bias may be more with the Steem community I've grown to cherish, I'm aware that Steemit is still also an option.
If the chain does come under a more centralised control under Justin Sun, it will still exist with the tokens we currently have still in place, it just won't be the decentralised place that many have come to value. The likelihood is that the community forked chain will also keep the current tokens we have, they'd just be altered to a new name and have to be built up again to be listed on exchanges and gain value.
The conclusion I draw from this is that while there will be a lot of adjustment, it doesn't mean it's the end and there's no reason not to get back to business as usual. You never know, the outcome could end up being a turning point for Steem, with all this publicity we're currently getting.
With all the uncertainty, tribesteemup pulled its delegations for the communities they were supporting, which included ours, so our upvote value has dropped a fair bit. As far as I know, they are still supporting us, though and I'm ever grateful for that support and the kick-start which has allowed us to build up much quicker than I expected. We still have over 2000 SP being delegated and have built up over 600 SP of our own after I've just powered up over 60 liquid Steem.
Because activity has been very low with homeschooling related content and the topic of the week has been a bit of a bust of late, I feel it's more beneficial to just power up the account to benefit our members through vote support. The community hive account will also start accruing bits from the automatic 5% beneficiary on content posted via the community, so I’d like to pose the question to the community as to whether we want to transfer that to the @HomeEdders account or just power it all up and put the hive account on a vote trail with the @HomeEdders account. Let me know your thoughts, this is your community too.
I'm currently going through the people who have already joined the community and adding the confirmed home educators as members. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this, so I'm typing in each username individually. If I've missed you, please let me know and accept my apologies; but don't worry, you can still post as a guest in the meantime.
From what I understand of someone else's post (I only just had coffee so brain not quite fully operational yet) if there is a fork everything but steemit accounts will be intact so we could just carry on as normal any which way and just make sure we're all on the same chain if there's a fork (pro-tip if there's a fork I won't be on a Justin Sun one).
My allegiances would also lie with the none JS one. I would try and keep things going for both if that's what shone want, though.
I must remember to go read blocktrades' posts on all this sort of thing.
Uncertain times for sure @homeedders, glad to see you keep pushing forward. Though I home educate my kids I don't post much about it but I do appreciate the community you have built here. Keep on keeping on :)
Thank you, @summertooth. You've been a big support through this all. I wanted to highlight and thank all our delegators, but I couldn't get the list to load up on Steemworld at the time of writing. I know some pulled their delegation when the tron saga started.
Thanks for the heads-up! I like this community feature for re-posting articles that are paid already, yet I value the open tribe communities (tribe-tags) much higher. So I suppose to transfer anything that comes from community beneficiary to the tribe is the best deal, for it voting on the community members anyway, right? Then it might be a good idea for a trail in the other direction: @HomeEdders voting on anything that the hive recognized? Well, that's begging the question whether everything that is posted into the community is worth voting for. Though this may not be relevant at this point in time.
In general I don't see a problem with the blockchain. There will always be "governmental upheavals". Isn't that even more the case with decentralization? On the question whether the chain has been decentralized already, you'll find some articles resteemed in my blog. I support anyone who's working towards de-escalation. The value is in the exchange, not in the substance, is it? Steem on! !invest_vote @tipu curate
Thank you for the input and the tipu (I keep forgetting to do that myself, doh!).
I know what you mean about the tribes. I'd rather gotten into a rhythm with them and the communities is all different again.
Does the hive automatically vote on posts added to the community? Off to check... no, I don't think it does. So I'll need to set it voting.
Yes, governance is always there in one form or another, isn't it. Life keeps plodding on and change keeps changing.
Life is at change. And then there are creative little projects like @investinthefutur with !invest_vote for helping plankton reaching the SBD 0.02 minimum payout instead of running against government.
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Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 10/15 - need recharge?)
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