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Hard Fork 28

If you are a regular member of the Hive Blockchain but don't pay attention to the technical side of things you might not of noticed the Hive Blockchain recently Hard Forked (That's how smooth the process was). Before we go over some of the more interesting changes that we believe will peak your interest and possibly change the way participants view and apply their curation efforts lets go over what a hard fork is. Simply put; a hard fork on the Hive blockchain refers to a major change to the blockchains software protocol. The new version of the Hive software (Currently Hard Fork 28) operates on a different set of rules than the previous version. So in-other words; Hive has updated. So now that we went over what a Hard Fork is what are some of the major changes Hard Fork 28 implemented. The one that is most interesting to me is the voting mechanisms. In the past version if we on the Hive Blockchain applied too many 100% votes we would get depreciating returns on the later votes. In today's version of Hive (Hard Fork 28) there is no depreciating vote value. Meaning if you vote with 100% power ten times or fifty times your vote will remain the same. Ex. do you have a $1 max vote? It will stay at that value no matter how many times you vote at 100% provided you have the MANA to cover the cost. That's right; with such a change there needs to be safe-guards. We can't just endlessly vote. Each time you cast a MAX vote you use up 2% of your mana. Which means at 100% mana you can cast 50 MAX votes before depleting mana to 0%. No worries if you do deplete your mana to 0%. Mana recovers automatically and linearly at a consistent rate of 20% per day. This means it would take 5 days to recover to 100% mana if one were to fully deplete their mana resources. Why is this so interesting? I think it changes the curation game. I think Curation Rewards are about to hit an all time high in terms of returns for curation. It will be interesting to see how curators and content creators adjust; if they do at all.

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Inflation

The Hive Token has inflation. That inflation is what allows us content creators to earn. That inflation is what gives rewards to those running nodes. The new changes implemented in Hard Fork 28 will reduce the Hive Blockchain inflation by 26%. So while it looks like curation rewards are about to increase (Note: not everyone has that view point some think curation rewards will be unaffected) over-all rewards handed out daily has decreased. This isn't a bad thing. Such a change will help the tokens USD value in the future. I'm sure I don't have to tell yous that less inflation is a good thing. This also applies to the rewards earned for running nodes. As seen in the screenshot above witness Hive account@seattlea reports that block rewards went down to 1.381 per block weighted against 1.864 per block given before Hard Fork 28 was implemented. Getting back to the new vote mechanisms; I should add that each vote given doesn't reduce your mana by 2%. Each MAX vote given reduces your mana by 2%. So if you adjust your vote to 50% then your mana will reduce by 1%, so on and so forth with each different weighted vote. So there you have it. That is the extent of Hive account@rentmoney's knowledge about Hard Fork 28. With the sea of red the cryptocurrency market has been experiencing I thought this a good time to turn post earnings to 100% power-up. If you would like to do the same for your content creation simply go to the rewards settings before posting your content and select 100% powerup and it shall be so. That's it for now. No filler in this post; the information is too important for that. Thanks for taking the time to read and if you have any questions about Hard Fork 28 ask below in the comment section and I'll do my best to answer them. Placing community tags on this post to try and help spread the update knowledge inside those communities. Thanks for spending your time here with us at the Hive account@rentmoney blog. See you at our next post!

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