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Well, the fighting is over and we need to prepare for HF21, it all comes down to testing and the drop now... The Hardfork has been announced and let me set some expectations for those of you who haven't been here for a hardfork or those of you who were too new to understand what went on.
The code has now been officially released there shouldn't be any further changes to the HF unless bugs are discovered.
- Between now and Aug 27th Witnesses can install the new code and (hopefully this will be invisible to users)
- On August 27th or after when 17 of the top 20 Witnesses are running the code it will become the new official version.
What to Expect:
- The exchanges usually go down for a while, sometimes for as long as 2 weeks, so plan accordingly.
- Nearly every hardfork has created some unexpected behavior or outright bugs. Examples: Reward pool being empty or overfull, Resource Credits not working as expected. So, just expect there to be some issues.
- Fighting, Steemians barely need a reason to fight, but price changes up or down and hardforks are some of our favorite fighting topics.
- Strong reactions good and bad and if anything goes wrong the "blame game". :)
- A return to stability. We have survived all the previous Hardforks and will will survive this one too.
Testing and Acceptance of the Hardfork is up to the witnesses that make the decision to run the new code. They are our first line of protection and it is a serious job.
If you have concerns or questions about HF21 talk to the top 20 witnesses.
Current Witness List:
01 yabapmatt
02 gtg
03 blocktrades
04 curie
05 themarkymark
06 roelandp
07 someguy123
08 smooth.witness
09 good-karma
10 cervantes
11 therealwolf
12 aggroed
13 ocd-witness
14 anyx
15 timcliff
16 thecryptodrive
17 ausbitbank
18 followbtcnews
19 lukestokes.mhth
20 clayop
This witness list is dynamic and changes with changing witness votes, but these witnesses are a good place to start.
Questions, Concerns or Comments? Let's talk about it in the comments.