The Ink well Newsletter - Breaking news - Hive, Steem and What it all Means

Hi contributors, subscribers and supporters.

This is your friendly admin Hive account@raj808, here to tell you about these new developments and explain some key points in a simple accessible way that will hopefully reassure, and even excite our subscribers.

If you are not already a member of The Ink Well and would like to check out the first creative writing community supported by both Hive account@curie and Hive account@ocd please follow the link below:

Breaking news - The Ink Well is on Steem and Hive Blockchains

Just under a month ago Justin Sun, CEO of Tron Foundation bought Hive account@ned's stake along with the company steemit.inc. Steemit.inc and their website shouldn't be confused with the steem blockchain. Since that time Justin Sun has orchestrated an attack on the decentralized nature of the steem blockchain, essentially buying many of the top witness spots through colluding (illegally) with Binance, Poloniex and Huobi exchanges using their customers steem to power up and vote Justin Sun's sock puppet witnesses.

Facts About Hive and Why You Shouldn't Worry

1) Hive will launch on the Friday the 20th of March 2020, just two days from now.

2) A snapshot of everyone's steem accounts and an airdrop of the equivalent amount of hive tokens and hivepower will take place on Friday the 20th of March 2020 prior to launch. This means you don't have to do anything, these are essentially free tokens based upon the SBD, liquid steem and steempower you own.

3) Your password - and different keys - you use to sign into steemit/steempeak/busy will remain the same for Hive blockchain. You don't have to worry about setting up new accounts with new passwords. When Hive goes live simply use your password, or preferably one of your private keys, to sign into https://hive.blog/ (adding your username) and bingo you will be able to post, comment and interact with the Hive blockchain.

4) Hive is a direct copy of the steem blockchain (with a few complex changes to do with governance that I won't go into), this is what a hardfork of this nature entails. This means that all your content, posts, comments... everything you have ever done on steem will be reproduced on Hive.

5) Also, The Ink Well community is automatically set up exactly as it is here on steem on the Hive blockchain from launch.

6) Finally, I have been in contact with a representative from Hive account@curie as well as Hive account@acidyo from Hive account@ocd, and they've both said that for the meantime their curation guilds will be curating on both steem and hive. I'm sure this may change with time as the political landscape evolves. But for now, what this means is a chance at double rewards. However, as can be seen in one of the screenshots below from the hive announcement, posting on steem won't automatically post to hive, or visa versa. If you want to post on both, you will need to do it manually on both chains.

As further reassurance, I have included some screens from the official Hive community announcement post - Announcing the Launch of Hive Blockchain.

I have already visited the hive site in its beta stage, https://hive.blog/. Take a look yourself (or check out my screenshots below) - The Ink Well is there, all my posts are there, everything is as it should be with a hardfork of this nature.

Notice the URL at the top of each of these pages. This is my blog and our community The Ink Well already reproduced on Hive blockchain's beta website 🙂

I would like to give a big shout out, and thanks to Hive account@crimsonclad for helping me clarify some facts about this hardfork in the official discord today.

Ongoing Prompts and Challenges

But back to what we're here for... writing! Both of our weekly prompt challenges are still active. With mine and Hive account@stormlight24's challenge to channel your inner maniac running until Monday 23rd of March. There is currently only one entrant, so I hope to see more insanely creative characters popping up over the next five days.

As I feel this news about the Hive hardfork is so important, I don't want any of Hive account@theinkwell's subscribers to miss it or end up confused as to if they will be negatively affected. So I've decided to tag everyone who is subscribed to our community. I have only done this once before on our first newsletter and I am generally against mass tagging like this but feel this is an exceptional case.

Hive account@nitza Hive account@nohebd Hive account@sacredbyswan Hive account@soupermedic Hive account@bosferi123 Hive account@knowledge-giver Hive account@momoneytomtom Hive account@olivera-despina Hive account@edje Hive account@robyneggs Hive account@chrismcdonald Hive account@jayna Hive account@furrnfluff Hive account@technicaldaku Hive account@hickorymack Hive account@simplifylife Hive account@dirge Hive account@zellypearl Hive account@diosarich Hive account@peak.featured Hive account@jerrytsuseer Hive account@theluvbug Hive account@d-pend Hive account@simba247 Hive account@ange.nkuru Hive account@yahialababidi Hive account@generikat Hive account@paradigm42 Hive account@abiky Hive account@tezmel Hive account@poorcirculation Hive account@leighlim Hive account@roadstories Hive account@cosmicart Hive account@wtrmrk Hive account@mllg Hive account@georgeboya Hive account@momzillanc Hive account@badge-825615 Hive account@johnlambrechts Hive account@livwrites Hive account@josediccus Hive account@justasking Hive account@thethreehugs Hive account@girlbeforemirror Hive account@anaclark Hive account@tombalistreri Hive account@pumpkinsandcats Hive account@iamraincrystal Hive account@joslud Hive account@nickyhavey Hive account@saltycat Hive account@hamiedkhan Hive account@alienbutt Hive account@schattenjaeger Hive account@lifementor Hive account@shanibeer Hive account@heretickitten Hive account@emsonic Hive account@giornalista Hive account@zerozoom Hive account@zeleiracordero Hive account@nabihanabil12 Hive account@hartfloe Hive account@kimmysomelove42 Hive account@sanashaikh Hive account@steem.buzz Hive account@feanor11 Hive account@therealpaul Hive account@urizenus Hive account@artedellavita Hive account@winstonalden Hive account@nonsowrites Hive account@goldstreet Hive account@shubhamsajgotra Hive account@kimberlylane Hive account@lisalansing Hive account@theinkwell Hive account@vida-blanca Hive account@felt.buzz Hive account@mers Hive account@mandireiserra Hive account@rakushasu Hive account@sn0n Hive account@soveenathesquid Hive account@johnjgeddes Hive account@silviu93 Hive account@carolkean Hive account@moquero Hive account@whatwillbe Hive account@moeknows Hive account@eutuxismenos Hive account@free-reign Hive account@mistakili Hive account@inka8 Hive account@sudutpandang Hive account@akasyofa Hive account@aceaeterna Hive account@joseda32 Hive account@marcybetancourt Hive account@nobyeni Hive account@elisea Hive account@straykat Hive account@sunsethunter Hive account@buttcoins Hive account@evagavilan Hive account@billykeed Hive account@steeminganarchy Hive account@lewizard Hive account@niallon11 Hive account@oblivioncubed Hive account@hotbit Hive account@artist1989 Hive account@jaca Hive account@letalis-laetitia Hive account@sarakey Hive account@stormlight24 Hive account@chinyerevivian Hive account@aduragbemi Hive account@manuelramos Hive account@litguru Hive account@kevinwong Hive account@airiam Hive account@worldbuilder Hive account@lacking Hive account@oacevedo Hive account@artemislives Hive account@creativetruth Hive account@cliffagreen Hive account@riverflows Hive account@sumit1998 Hive account@owasco Hive account@nonameslefttouse Hive account@poemsofasickmind Hive account@kaelci Hive account@agmoore Hive account@agmoore2 Hive account@bashadow Hive account@acolucky Hive account@manoldonchev Hive account@trucklife-family Hive account@meesterboom Hive account@flemingfarm Hive account@alcibiades Hive account@fenngen Hive account@warpedpoetic Hive account@joeyarnoldvn Hive account@menoski Hive account@phage93 Hive account@teofilex11 Hive account@raj808

Thank you for reading our third newsletter.

EDIT: I added an important extra point to the 'Facts About Hive' section. Please see point 3.

I would like to invite any lovers of poetry and short stories to visit the new hive community I started with Hive account@stormlight24 called:

The Ink Well.

We now also have a curation trail set up so if you are a SteemAuto user search for 'theinkwell' (all one word) and it is available as a community trail to follow.

If you would like to delegate to Hive account@theinkwell and help support creative writing on steem you can do so by clicking on any of the following links for the amount you would like to delegate:

We would like to say a special thank you to those kind souls who have already delegated to help support The Ink Well and creative writing on steem.

Hive account@riverflows 500 Steem power delegation, thank you.

Hive account@trucklife-family 200 Steem power delegation, thank you.

Hive account@raj808 500 steem power delegation.

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