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RE: Are we rushing the hard fork or is just me? Dlive distraction and last minute updates to the hardfork.
We're a social media network, if something goes wrong and the blocks stop coming through it's not like there are mission critical functions that can go down. The closest we have to something mission critical is transfers, but currently the exchanges have Steem deposits and withdrawals disabled and they will do that again for the hard fork. So we might as well do it now and avoid an extra period of exchanges frozen for Steem.
We're not in a place where we should be ultra cautious. Steem is like Reddit, competing with other fast moving networks, we're not air traffic control or Visa (yet).
Well said. Also, the value of our token is intimately wrapped up in the other value propositions of the chain including social capabilities, application-related capabilities, and upgrade-ability. And of course far more time and effort is put into ensuring that the code around the token is more secure and robust due to its importance. That's exactly what caused the halt. When the blockchain sensed a threat to the token, it halted so as to not endanger that component of the system.
I was discussing the halting incident with a friend recently and he noted that banks and stock exchanges stop functioning for 12 hours every day and people tolerate it. A couple of halting incidents in exchange for all the other benefits of Steem is a relatively tiny price to pay and shouldn't be used, IMO, to justify turning Steem into something stagnant.