I don't know about you, but I wanted to know all the details surrounding who was able to get the Steem blockchain up and running when it was down for a solid day, and I just found out it was Hive account@abit.

I just learned through Hive account@holger80's post that Hive account@abit was responsible for giving a patch to the Steem blockchain so that it was functional again.....how quickly we all forget that Steem was down for most of a solid day....now that we're embroiled with the DLive fiasco.

From Hive account@holger80's article we learn:

"After the hf20 fork was activated, blocks that produced by hf20 nodes were not accepted anymore by hf19 nodes. This lead to a fork and as the exchanges are on hf19, it was decided to move to the hf19 chain.

Thank to Hive account@abit and its four patches:

checkpoint fix
2048 fork db fix
plus 2048
filter out blocks on the bad fork

Hive account@gtg was able to start the steem blockchain again together with Hive account@abit. Then Hive account@roelandp could also jump in and the steem block production was slowly starting again.

I voted for Hive account@abit as witness now, to express my gratitude that he saved steem :)." -Holger80

There you have it. This is the information I never saw, and something you should think long and hard about. I had already voted for Hive account@abit a long time ago, but Hive account@abit is currently at number 19 on the Witness list, despite him being the one that ran the patches to save your ass on Steem. I voted for Hive account@holger80 as well, for providing this critical information that I had not seen anywhere else.

Read the entire story here: https://steemit.com/witness/@holger80/steem-recovered-from-the-hf20-fork-thanks-to-abit-and-its-emergency-patches

Thanks for your attention today. Time to vote.