We are pleased to announce that the migration of Waivio.com and all related services to the Hive blockchain is now complete. We will continue to monitor the performance of the system to ensure that all services and elements of the system work as intended. Currently, price feeds are stabilizing as more exchanges offer support for HIVE coins.
The launch of the #hive decentralized social network is a historic moment as the community and community-elected witnesses have walked away from the #steem, which was taken hostage by a single player who bought the ninja-mined stake (over 20% of the STEEM coins that were not supposed to be used in the blockchain governance) and voted in their own sock puppet witnesses. You can read more about the community's battle against the centralization of the blockchain by following the discussions with the hashtag #steemhostiletakeover.
Hive was launched on Friday, March 20th at 10am EST as a community fork of the Steem blockchain, meaning that all content posted before that date will be the same on both Hive and Steem blockchains. But from that date onward, Hive operates as an independent blockchain with its own witnesses, governance, tokens, and most importantly, the community.
If you had an account on the Steem blockchain before 20 March 2020, you now have 2 accounts with the same number of tokens. In addition to STEEM/SP/SBD you now have the same amount of HIVE/HP/HBD.
To access your Steem accounts and funds, you can use Steempeak.com or Steemitwallet.com.
If you want to convert your remaining STEEM to HIVE, you can use Blocktrades.us (direct STEEM/HIVE trading) or you can use the Bittrex.com exchange to convert STEEM to BTC first and BTC to HIVE later. Several other exchanges also announced their upcoming support for HIVE.
Now you can again publish and comment on Waivio.com, add and edit objects, business and restaurant listings, wiki pages, directories, catalogs and menus. All new submissions will be published on the Hive social blockchain.
The Waivio development team has worked tirelessly to make this transition as efficient as possible, while at the same time being severely limited by the coronavirus lockdown that is now taking place worldwide.
We hope that our progress in building Web 3.0 applications on Hive will cheer you up in the midst of the global uncertainty, pandemic, market turbulence, supply chain collapse, monetary system realignment, and the revision of governance, and not just in the blockchain space!
Stay healthy and #hiveon!