Steem is having a hot cold day today.
The cold part was delivered by Poloniex, who decided to include STEEM on a list of coins that will be delisted from their exchange by October 15th (hmm, short notice?).
https://steempeak.com/busy/@toofasteddie/important-and-sad-news
With almost 10m STEEM in Poloniex wallets, it's the third largest exchange by STEEM holdings.
I wish I knew the reason for the delisting. Do they consider the trouble for maintaining a STEEM node is too high for the fees they receive, or is it something else?
Anyway, by 15 October it's likely not all STEEM holders on Poloniex will receive the "notification" and act on it. And if they receive the notification, how will they act? Withdraw STEEM and Power Up? Withdraw STEEM and burn (some of) it? Move STEEM to a different exchange and still hodl it? Move it and sell it for another coin?
I saw some hope part of the "orphaned" STEEM will be burned by Poloniex after the deadline is over. Hmm... I doubt it, unless it comes from customers of Poloniex, before October 15th.
But the day isn't so cold after all.
Here's what can warm you up!
Steemit, Inc. has decided to put those email addresses collected in the sign up process to good use and start sending out a regular newsletter.
I know one flower doesn't make it spring, but it seems this first email convinced at least one early steemian who turned inactive to check out Steem again:
Looking forward to see some results. But, it won't be easy trying to connect or reconnect with people who left Steem some time ago, or to keep engaged existing Steemians and prevent from from turning inactive.
I wish I had a look at this first email, to see how 