At the moment of writing this article, 27.9% witnesses are running a flavor of the 0.19.0 Steem blockchain, which means the adoption of the much awaited HardFork 19 is very close.
7 out of the top 19 witness are on 0.19.0 too, which means a participation of 36% in the top layer.
For those who don't know what HF19 means:
linear rewards curve: your vote will allocate from the rewards pool proportionally (until now, it was squared,
n^2which meant whales had a much, much bigger influence)vote power depleted after 10 votes / day (now it's 40 votes / day)
whales no voting experiment will cease (there is an experiment in which whales votes are counteracted by flagging, in order to level up the field)
The latest 0.19.0 release candidate, number 3, was released 5 days ago on Github. There is no official announcement yet when HardFork 1 will be scheduled, though.
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