Thanks for sticking with us Matt!

Great news!  Thanks for your hard work, man.

Glad to see your dedication to Hive.

I'm one of those voices in the background and find a lot of the mechanics seems to go over my head. In fact, I'm not too sure what you mean about the hive airdrop...Are you saying the majority of us won't get an airdrop of Hive and only the steem.inc accounts will? If so that does sound like a kick in the goolies. Anyway, I have been fueled by the actions of those who've gone out of their way to make the move to Hive as smooth as possible, it really is inspirational. Keep up the great work and lets keep this place rocking!!

Great to have you here @yabapmatt.  What are your expectations for Hive?  Do you think it has the legs to make a top 20 project on CoinMarketCap? 

I would really like your opinion on SMTs

I would like to know what SMTs would have to be to be a drop in use case for Dark Energy Crystals.

It appears... i really didn't follow it because i never got in with any steemit developers, that SMTs were going to be ... something that they never should have been, and not smart tokens at all, but more like Shtupid tokens.

And, your opinion on if SMTs should be completed on HIVE.

Thanks

I agree with everything you have wrote but most especially that the Steemit-owned accounts should not be excluded. Even though I am not affected by it, I feel like some people are and they are being felt as if Hive has turned away potential support.

**I have been waiting for an official article from you for a very long time.  I especially liked the fact that you remind us that everything depends on the cohesion of the community, and not on a few dozen people at the top of the witness list.**
>Я очень долго ждал от Вас официальной статьи. После прочтения ее, я понял, что ждал не зря. Особенно мне понравилось то, что напоминаете нам, что все зависит от сплочённости сообщества, а не от нескольких десятков человек в верху списка свидетелей. 

>*"Just like Steem was greater than SteemIt (whose decisions I also regularly disagreed with), Hive is much greater than the group of people who created it.*"

**On the other hand, we did not even dream in a nightmare of the number of actions that witnesses do.
If simple, I am VERY glad to see you on HIVE!**
>С другой стороны, нам и не снилось в кошмарном сне, то количество действий, что делают свидетели. 
Если просто, я ОЧЕНЬ рад видеть Вас на HIVE

Disagree with not airdropping people who disagree? Vote proposal 83, we can burn some HBD of "theirs" which was arbitrarily added into the Dao. 

I agree 1000%! You're my only witness vote so far!

Your new photo is bad ass! 

I am in tune with everything you have exposed, you are one of the most coherent witnesses in the <strike>Steem</strike> Hive Blockchain.

>Hive is much greater than the group of people who created it.

This idea convinces me that despite all the adversities, we are moving in a good direction.

I am in tune with everything you have exposed, you are one of the most coherent witnesses in the <strike>Steem</strike> Hive Blockchain.

>Hive is much greater than the group of people who created it.

This idea convinces me that despite all the adversities, we are moving in a good direction.

You know how much you contributed thanks to Splinterlands, its API, and the numerous services you deployed on Steem which have been dramatically important to the whole blockchain.

Thank you again @yabapmatt for that. Whatever people will do in the future, it is in great part thanks to you; and there is no better thing than this imho. I am very happy for the next years :-) 

By the way I noticed many people are still using steempeak instead of peakd.com. That forces me to double post this week. Note that on steempeak we also receive downvotes from korean players I never read or followed; I received my very first downvote that way.

I don't dare inquire more in fear of having downvotes by a "gang of superior powers". It is their right but it is obvious they downvote for political partisanship instead of my project. Steem social network is under so much bad influence right now; you are right to post here; but at least it can explain how partisanship has affected the communities badly, and why it should stay out of our creative works. 

I'm quite excited for the future. You can just feel the energy buzzing when talking with people and all the things they want to do now. 

I'm really glad to see this post and that you're supporting hive from now on. It's great to have so many witnesses with us. Also I'd like to express my gratitude for all the hard work you're doing. Hive on! 😊

Hello and thanks a lot for being here on Hive where the real freedom is :)

I only wish I could play Splinterlands from Hive too since I don't intend to do anything any longer on Steem. Except for the pure basic transactions like powering down and transferring funds out of the chain.

I hope that that will come in due time. Things are moving and working very swiftly and smoothly on Hive. You all did a great work, congrats!

I second the motion to come to agreement with @steemchiller. If apologies are needed then do them. This is pointed to people involved and not to you personally, of course.

I'm addicted to @splinterland, waiting for the whole thing ported to HIVE.

Also really happy with this... for starters... its historical already. dPoS already proved some stuff is important on this tech. But more importantly is the little tweaks the community around it added over the time. This is a long term experiment that is becoming something very worthwhile to be present at...

as part of history to start with, and then as edge technology evolving via open sourced software aimed to solve real world/communities problems.

All good! Is it normal that I can't check my HIVE balance?

I'm in big hopes that hive will not end up just in a few whale hands and the governance will emerge to support the underground of the platform mainstream in some way let's #ThriveOnHive [engagement4](https://hive.blog/thriveonhive/@jongolson/howtothriveonhivewin100hivetokens-sb7bsjb5ef)

Any comments on the physical centralisation of witness node hardware? Do you think we have enough distribution worldwide? (let's ignore the place of residence of people running witnesses, and look at where the servers are hosted) 

I really like your post and thoughts, but according to my <a href="https://hive.blog/hive/@jaki01/how-decentralized-is-hive-wie-dezentral-ist-hive">own new rules</a>, set to support decentralization of HIVE, I have to flag every trending post with pending rewards greater than 80 dollars. :)

Love your post thanks for chiming in. 


As for the airdrop part:
We can choose to see it as allowing the decision for those 300 accounts to be given to the community. So not as an "exclusion" more of a delay on decision and passing the decision on to that community that you were praising at the end. 
@steempeak is willing to support our users that it affected and help promote their cause. There is some belief that those users aren't presently and maybe were never interested in the hive blockchain. But if they are we should help them out. There were plenty of Splinterlands users it affected we can rally behind... again, If they actually want to be a part of the Hive blockchain. 

> I would also like to say that I do not agree with the decision to exclude accounts other than those owned by Steemit, Inc. from the HIVE token airdrop.

Glad to hear this from you. Do you have future plans to restore those tokens?

I am logged on hive.blog with my posting key. I can comment and upvote, I posted once but when I am trying to post now it gives me an error: 'Missing posting authority. '

Do you know why?