Thanks for the update, and especially for speaking up against the blacklist. It's good to hear from a witness that he doesn't support it. Respect!
It's one of the things that makes me hesitant to get started on hive. No way I will stay on Steem, but imo the entire blacklist thing is so unfair that I'm still not sure I want to work with people who took that decision.

Just like Steem was greater than SteemIt (whose decisions I also regularly disagreed with), Hive is much greater than the group of people who created it.

You do have a point here, and you may have solved my issue with this sentence. Thanks for that. (And everything else you're doing)