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We are here and back again live on the steem Blockchain after a short hiatus due to the upgrade on the steem Blockchain. It gave minnows some days off for the platform to equalize and then to get acquainted with the modus operandi of the new system; mana (Resource Credit).Everything seems stable now, unless you have managed to make about 500 comments per week, then you gotta have to wait a little longer before you transact on the steem Blockchain again.

“AND WHAT NEXT AFTER HF20?”

The proposed upgrade seems too long to have arrived, but it finally came but putting so many things to a halt for a while, velocity came with so many benefits yet to be unravelled than its fears. Right now, rate of spamming seems to be dropping and rewards shows a little sign of increases despite no significant rise in the price of steem, this is one of the visible advantage of the latest upgrade so far.

Several puppets accounts had been petrified, these suck puppets have been depriving real and active users of their cuts from the reward pool day-in-day-out. For how long it’s going to stay this way, we do not know because there is always crooked ways that abound over the Blockchain. After Hardfork 2 is Steemit In Nigeria 2, Steemfest 3 in Krakow Poland and the launch of SMTs in the early quarter of 2019.

These are all major events to look forward to on the Steem Blockchain, The Biggest Steem Event in Africa is just few weeks away and it will be held in the Nigeria’s capital Abuja. Steemfest 3 Krakow follows in Poland and to anyone in West Africa who could not make it to Europe; Steemit In Nigeria 2 Event is a good alternative to consider.

Finally, the launch of Smart Media Tokens in the Q1 of 2019 is a ground breaking event all steem users and holders have been waiting for, maybe it will shoot the price of steem to the skies. But before then, steem hard friends and do not spam, may the force be with you all!