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Even HODLing EOS for almost a year now, reading the white paper, doing videos about EOS, consuming as much information about EOS as I can, and running the DAWN 3.x version of the testnet it wasn't until recently that I realized the block time for EOS is 0.5s.  To put that into perspective the STEEM blockchain produces a new block every 3 seconds so if things didn't run into latency issues then the EOS blockchain will have 6 times the transaction capacity that the STEEM blockchain has currently and STEEM and BitShares are nowhere near total utilization.   That is pretty insane to think about!   

Right now my latest video is rendering talking about getting started on the EOS testnet.  On June 2nd the mainnet launches but a lot of people are curious about how to get started and what EOS is capable of at this point.   I mainly show how to get your environment setup and kind of show people some realizations that I came to when working in the environment.   

It is all very confusing but that is normal.   If it was easy then everyone would have the capability to be a system admin and be a great programmer.   That just isn't the case and it is hard for me as well.  My goal is that this will help more people get started with beginner level stuff and be able to create accounts and start working with existing smart contracts and compiling code.   After they understand that they can start programming if they already know C++ or they can start looking at online tutorials to learn more.   

As we are getting closer to the launch it is looking like block producers are going to be pretty sophisticated teams of people.  That actually surprised me.  I figured some of the same Witnesses from the STEEM blockchain would be Block Producers there but I think it is going to be tough for individuals to get the votes.  We will see though.   You might think that because I'm running the testnet and diving into this stuff this deep that I will try to be a Block Producers but I don't feel that I have the means to campaign for it.   My main focus right now is to be in position to snag usernames when the mainnet launches.   I feel there will be one main EOS implementation which exchanges like Binance and Kraken and others will agree is the real EOS and then there might be some others that launch but they will have a harder time getting exchange support.  That is my thinking.    

If you look at Linux there are tons of different distributions so a similar type thing might happen in the future with EOS.   

## Are any of you going to program on EOS?  
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