
Hi contributors, subscribers and supporters.
This edition of the newsletter will mainly cover one piece of breaking news. The announcement and implementation of a new hardforked version of steem called Hive.
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
First I'll give a very brief introduction for those people who are here to write only and aren't interested, or even aware of steem governance issues.
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.
His aim is to get a majority of 17 of his sock puppet witnesses into the top twenty consensus spots so that he can make changes to the blockchain code to allow a select group of people (himself and his exchange cronies) to power down their steem in a three day period. While the rest of us have to wait the standard seven weeks.
That is the background that has led us to this point at a very basic level. There is much more to this story but I want to keep this simple and concise for all the writers at The Ink Well who're only interested in writing and the spirit of mutual support we've built in our community in the few short weeks since it launched.

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.
Which you can visit by following this link: https://discord.gg/tpxqQUP

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.
The Ink Well poetry challenge only has a day left to enter, so you better get your skates on for that one. The challenge revolves around the theme of freedom and appropriately asks for a poem in freeverse.

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
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Hive account@hickorymack
Hive account@simplifylife
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Hive account@diosarich
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Hive account@theluvbug
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Hive account@generikat
Hive account@paradigm42
Hive account@abiky
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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
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Hive account@pumpkinsandcats
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Hive account@feanor11
Hive account@therealpaul
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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
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Hive account@lewizard
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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
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Hive account@creativetruth
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Hive account@bashadow
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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
It is not my intention to spam, as stated I am just concerned about getting this information out to all our subscribers. Future newsletters will not tag like this unless the news is of a serious nature like this hardfork. If you would rather not be tagged just let me know in the comments and I'll make you're never included in a mass tag like this again.
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:
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:
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