Crazy times as COVID-19 grips the world, stay safe and healthy wherever you are.

in #hive5 years ago

roastingcoffee.gif

It's been an emotional roller coaster of a week so far, between the crazy situation we have had around the Steem Takeover and now just being 15 hours away from a new Blockchain fork in HIVE, plus COVID-19 now taking a serious grip on the UK which has seen most of my coffee shop customers having to close, including my biggest local customer Square Chapel. Plus my Dad started suffering with chest pains last weekend which was a big worry, although after an ECG the doctors today confirmed it wasn't a heart attack - so big sigh of relief although he is still not feeling great and of course right in the risk zone for coronavirus.

All this has lead to a perfect storm of confusion for me, I've been trying to keep my business running while facing what is a critical loss of income as the UK Government continues to tell people to social distance and avoid hospitality businesses - causing many of my customers to close.

72B2744371D842D48DDE00D443A5D425.jpeg

At the start of the week I was discussing with @welshstacker in the #brits discord about what would happen with dapps once Hive forks the blockchain - and I said what I thought would happen - Hive and Steem would both exist and most dapps would allow an api choice so you could choose the blockchain to use them on.

Since then it has become obvious that Steem is a centralised dictatorship, made clear by steemit.com blocking of HIVE related posts. That really makes any thought of staying with the old Steem blockchain untenable, I really think that developers and blog creators combined should seriously consider their options right now and decide where they have allegiance - only one blockchain will come out of this on top.

Last Confirmed Block Number 41,768,846 Last Aslot 41,909,218

Steemd v0.22.4444






Kind thanks to Witness @enginewitty for employing his Ninja graphic design skills and producing this 🔥 banner

If you enjoyed my post don’t forget to leave an Upvote, feel free to comment on what you liked or where I can do better even. Follow @c0ff33a for regular and varied posts, photography, my weekly VLOG, posts on coffee roasting and brewing - just follow and see.

To grow your presence and following on Steemit, be active in the community Discords that offer the chance to learn, network, share and be found. The #TheRamble discord https://discord.gg/HZYzEry hosts a range of shows where you can join in and get your name shown, every Thursday there are two Pimp My Post Thursdays which are hugely popular and give you an opportunity to get your posts seen.

All photos are my own, taken with my iPhone. All my Steem posted pictures can be freely used by other Steem users in their own blog posts - all I ask is that you follow me and credit @c0ff33a linking to my post you took it from. You can also follow me on Twitter

You can view my current Witness Statistics using this tool produced by Witness @justyy

The picture to the right kindly sketched by the wonderful @bridget.art , be sure to check her incredible art out https://steemit.com/@bridget.art

The greatest challenge we face on Steem blockchain is getting our posts seen, I have always believed the simplest and best value way of doing this is by commenting on the blog posts of others, the more you engage people and interact with them the greater the chance they will visit your own blog and return the favour. Other then spending all my free time commenting on Steem blockchain posts, I also distribute coffee roasting machines and also espresso coffee machines and roast my own Speciality Coffee Range. being one of the premium coffee suppliers Yorkshire including a wide range of filter coffee sachets. Finally I have a dedicated website to my Artisan small batch roasted coffee featuring roast and post packs and super easy coffee subscriptions

Proud sponsor with @derangedcontests of @brosino , free to play and cash out Steem rewards, head to Brosino Website now and start playing.

!steemitworldmap 53.766547 lat -1.801500 long Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. d3scr


This awesome animated Banner has been kindly been created by the wonderful @snook


The Coffee Break Discord Voice Chat Show, in @thealliance Mondays 10pm UTC hosted by @c0ff33a and @enginewitty

Don’t forget to vote for Witnesses https://steemit.com/~witnesses

You can vote for the Witness team c0ff33a and @derangedvisions if you like what we are doing for people and communities throughout the Steem blockchain - click vote for c0ff33a Witness

If you are uncertain about Witnesses and who to vote for you can vote for c0ff33a as your Witness Proxy and you will vote for the same Witnesses as I do.

If you have spare Witness votes, support other active Witnesses like @thekitchenfairy , @enginewitty and @jackmiller
@untersatz

Ads Witnes lay 06.jpg

2017 blogging, 2018 Witness, 2019 COFFEEA TOKEN

Sort:  

Congratulations @contrabot, you successfuly trended the post shared by @c0ff33a!
@c0ff33a will receive 0.95095013 TRDO & @contrabot will get 0.63396675 TRDO curation in 3 Days from Post Created Date!

"Call TRDO, Your Comment Worth Something!"

To view or trade TRDO go to steem-engine.com
Join TRDO Discord Channel or Join TRDO Web Site

Congratulations, Your Post Has Been Added To The Steemit Worldmap!
Author link: http://steemitworldmap.com?author=c0ff33a
Post link: http://steemitworldmap.com?post=crazy-times-as-covid-19-grips-the-world-stay-safe-and-healthy-wherever-you-are


Want to have your post on the map too?

  • Go to Steemitworldmap
  • Click the code slider at the bottom
  • Click on the map where your post should be (zoom in if needed)
  • Copy and paste the generated code in your post
  • Congrats, your post is now on the map!

That really makes any thought of staying with the old Steem blockchain untenable, I really think that developers and blog creators combined should seriously consider their options right now and decide where they have allegiance - only one blockchain will come out of this on top.

Although there would be a 30 day waiting period (to have seasoned enough SPs to be able to witness vote on the Hive) there is nothing to stop Mr. Sun from taking over the new chain after a 30 day period. He could come in using multiple accounts so as to not be so easily targeted as was the case with v. 22.2. One could only wonder if the Hive witnesses would try targeting Mr. Sun's accounts selectively based on personality, alone, as opposed to their previous justification of pre-mined ninja stake. 😎

Be safe and take care 🥰🌺🤙

Posted using Partiko iOS

coffeea Lucky you @c0ff33a here is your COFFEEA, view all your tokens at steem-engine.com Vote for c0ff33a as Witness

crazy times for the world and specially for steemians as well so much to say but just can't describe .... take care

Congratulations @c0ff33a, your post successfully recieved 0.95095013 TRDO from below listed TRENDO callers:

@contrabot earned : 0.63396675 TRDO curation


To view or trade TRDO go to steem-engine.com
Join TRDO Discord Channel or Join TRDO Web Site

Terribly sorry that your business is having difficulties with all this Virus stuff. All we can do is hope for the best and plan for the worst.

Blessings and groovy vibes to you and yours. I am off to get my reheated Chinese Takeaway out of the oven. I treat myself about once a month. The restaurant gives one so much!