RIP Steemit
4:22am (New York)
It's been a few days and mostly sleepless nights since I saw the Binance announcement to support the Hive airdrop and KNEW right away that it was a huge, momentous opportunity for Hive to begin the process to attempt to secure asset listings with top exchanges, potentially saving what could amount to millions of dollars in listings fees that a new project would likely face.
The crypto industry's weakness: a true community-driven, decentralized project.
My goal since Wednesday: to see as much green as possible below by working exchange contacts and connections that I have built up over the past two years working professionally in the crypto industry.
Still not able to sleep, I open Steemit.com for the first time in 2 days and immediately feel my stomach sink, while a feeling of sadness and grief quickly washes over me.
Steemit: a website, a blog, a home, a place that I love(ed) has basically died.
Steemit meant the world to me.
Steemit freed me from a desk job that I had to escape.
Steemit gave me the opportunity to travel all over the world and meet amazing people and make amazing friends.
My path to Steemit was not easy.
It took almost 6 months, from meeting @ned for 2 minutes at a conference in May of 2017 in New York City, to claw my way into a official Manager of Business Development position with Steemit, Inc..
All of which, I could not have done without my hometown friend and technical associate @adept who tragically passed away in his sleep in early in February 2018, only 1 week after we finally signed the deal with Steemit, Inc. and @ned to work business development, exchange relationships, and developer outreach support.
As excited as I am with the early success of Hive, I feel equally as sad with what seems to be the official death of Steemit as we used to know it.
I share your feelings.
wow thats crazy you even mentioned @adept wow. I knew @adept he told me when alex jones visited steemit inc
man thats crazy that you posted this bro lol wow resteemed
It was a journey that was started and only could have done with @adept because we built thesteemitshop.com for @ned which landed us steemit.com email addresses and into the company Slack in September 2017. It was sad losing him and the closing of this chapter makes me think back.
There's @adept on the right. This is where it all stated at the Buffalo, NY Bitcoin Meetups that I would put on. After meeting @ned in NYC, I spent weeks looking at everything on the Steem blockchain and pitched it to my Meetup group as the coolest project. The next day @adept sold about $30k of ETH and bought STEEM. We talked about Steem every day pretty much for 6-7 months until he passed away.
It must be a wrench to see the product you worked on go this way, but the community have shown what it can do and keep the spirit alive. I am grateful that Steemit created this platform for the world and made it possible to fork. It is a shame it had to happen, but Justin is not interested in the community.
See you on Hive.
Hi! Did you know that steemit.com is now censoring users and posts based on their opinions?
All the posts of these users are gone!
https://github.com/steemit/condenser/commit/3394af78127bdd8d037c2d49983b7b9491397296
Here's a list of some banned users:
'roelandp', 'blocktrades', 'anyx', 'ausbitbank', 'gtg', 'themarkymark', 'lukestokes.mhth', 'netuoso', 'innerhive'See anyone you recognize? There could be more, they also have a remote IP ban list.
Will you be censored next?
RIP to Steem as Hive is buzzing 🐝🐝🐝🐝
Blockchains never die!