The Steem News @ 14 February 2020 #2 - Tron & Steem - the story so far

Today Steemic Inc entered into a partnership with Justin Sun's Tron.

Ned Scott, co-founder of Steem and Chair of Steemit Inc sold Steemit Inc to Justin Sun of Tron.

So far, apart from Ned's single tweet, there have been no official announcements from the Steemit Inc team on the Hive account@steemitblog account or on their Twitter account.

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The Timeline of Events...

4.08pm UTC - Justin Sun tweeted out the initial announcement of the partnership...

#TRON and Hive account@steemit will create further value for users and augment their advancements in #decentralized technologies.
This partnership further empowers @Tronfoundation’s title as the #blockchain industry’s leader in distributed ledger technology.

• https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1228350189129191424

  - justinsuntron

The tweet linked to the full press release on Medium...

Steemit Inc., the largest decentralized blockchain-based social media and blogging platform, announced a strategic partnership with TRON Foundation. TRON and Steemit’s development teams will immediately begin working together to bring Steemit and other Steem blockchain based DApps to TRON blockchain and its community of over 20 million users, products, and services....

• Steemit Joining TRON Ecosystem

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4.11pm UTC - Justin Sun announced in a follow up tweet that he is doing a livestream with Ned Scott on DLive tomorrow, 15 February, at 9am PST / 5pm UTC....

STEEMIT2.0 #TRON and #Steemit leading in a new era of decentralized social networking.

Join me @OfficialDLive (http://dlive.tv/justinsun) at 9:00AM, Feb 15 (PST).

Let’s talk about Steem #Dapps migration, $STEEM token swap, giveaways to #TRX users and a new accelerator program.

• https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1228350993420578817

  - justinsuntron

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4.18pm UTC - The Poloniex Exchange (now owned by Justin Sun & Tron) announced on Twitter that they will be supporting the STEEM token swap and that they will be relisting STEEM...

We’re excited to announce that we'll be supporting the upcoming $STEEM token swap for our users!

We’ll re-list #STEEM soon and bring back support for deposits and withdrawals...

https://support.poloniex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043406513

• https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/1228352737081020416

  - Poloniex

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5.06pm UTC - Ned Scott announces in a tweet that he has sold Steemit to Justin Sun...

Steemitans and Twitterers, after four beautiful years, I have sold Steemit to Hive account@justinsuntron.

AMA tomorrow at 9am PT. https://medium.com/@TronFoundation/steemit-joining-tron-ecosystem-6ad66584d0b

• https://twitter.com/realNedScott/status/1228364811622322178

  - realNedScott

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That is the story so far as it has played out on Twitter. There have been no other announcements from the Steemit Inc team on Steem or on Twitter.

This of course has left a lot of questions unanswered.

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Witness Forum - 15 February

Hive account@aggroed has announced he will be hosting an emergency Witness Forum on MSPWaves immediately after the DLive stream finishes. That Witness Forum will likely start around 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm UTC...

• Steem Witness Forum Tomorrow Immediately Following the Tron Meeting on MSPWaves

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In case you can't get to either of these events directly Hive account@ecoinstant will be live tweeting them...

• I will be live tweeting the AMA and the post AMA witness forum

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In the meantime Hive account@theycallmedan has been fielding some questions on an impromptu AMA post...

• Surprise AMA

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The Steem blockchain is now alive with commentary posts expressing a range of opinions about today's news.

Including some from witnesses...

• #7 Hive account@jarvie (@SteemPeak) - Thoughts on TRON acquiring Steemit INC?

• #23 Hive account@lukestokes - STEEM is still not Steemit, even if Tron buys Steemit

• #29 Hive account@pharesim - One last middle finger from ned...

• #46 Hive account@jackmiller - You can buy a company, but you can't buy the people!

• #76 Hive account@starkerz (Hive account@yoodoo) - Steem - Tron Partnership Buy the Rumour sell the News Event

• #78 Hive account@enginewitty - What Does It All Mean?

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And many from leading community members (in alphabetical order)...

• Hive account@abh12345 - Don't let the Sun, go down on me

• Hive account@edicted - You Ready For War?!

• Hive account@inertia - Tron + Steem

• Hive account@itstime - Prediction : How the Tron STEEM takeover will go down

• Hive account@justineh - “Steemit joining the Tron Ecosystem” - What it means

• Hive account@liberosist - Steem Classic, anyone?

• Hive account@lordbutterfly - Justin Sun bought Steemit and is trying to convince everyone that he bought STEEM

• Hive account@mindtrap - So...Ned officially says he sold Steemit to Justin Sun.. Poloniex is re-listing STEEM.... token swaps and dapp migrations....How about an official statement from Steemit.Inc maybe?

• Hive account@soyrosa - NED Just Sold Us Out or Tronit or Did Tron Just Become the Largest Owner of STEEM Coins?

• Hive account@streetstyle - Tron buys Steemit - let's find out what that means tomorrow :-)

• Hive account@tarazkp - Steem? Tron? Ston? Treem?- confusions and questions

• Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Step Off The Ledge: This Is All Great News

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And a couple from DApps...

• Hive account@splinterlands - Steemit / Tron Announcement

• Hive account@vimm - Regarding Steem and Tron

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Media Coverage

• Yahoo Finance coverage reported by Hive account@jrcornel...
  Steem - If the news wasn't already confusing enough, wait until you see the Yahoo.Finance version...

• CoinTelegraph - Steemit to Shift its Proprietary Blockchain and Token to Tron Network

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & Hive account@arcange ]

Steem price	US$ 0.281	15 Feb '20 0.53am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#73	15 Feb '20 0.53am UTC
FCAS Score	751 / A	15 Feb '20 0.53am UTC
SBD price	US$ 1.05	15 Feb '20 0.53am UTC
No. of Whales	37	13 Feb '20
No. of Orcas	366	13 Feb '20
No. of Dolphins	2219	13 Feb '20
No. of Minnows	9298	13 Feb '20
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#15,026	14 Feb '20 0.23am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	217,740 / day	14 Feb '20 0.23am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	500,802 / day	14 Feb '20 0.23am UTC

Follow Hive account@penguinpablo & Hive account@steem-data for more statistics.

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This is #258b (14 Feb '20) of this daily news service.

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