Hi there.

It's been a while since I did a Saturday post. Such posts were usually about Steemit, but Steemit had been stagnating for so long that there was little to write about.

But now things are finally changing.

HF 20 and the new Steemit

There was a little trouble when the fork was first implemented. I understand why some people are upset.

But have you seen what's happening with post rewards? Mine are gradually getting bigger, even though they aren't getting more upvotes and the price of Steem is not increasing.

Why is that?

I can only imagine that the reward pool, which before HF20 was constantly being drained by millions of wasteful upvotes from reckless bots, is now starting to refill. Spammy upvoting and commenting by people with low Steem Power but way too much time chipped away at everyone's rewards.

And that kept Steemit down.

With the new Hard Fork, rewards seem to be getting bigger, which will undoubtedly attract more quality to the site and, eventually, energize the price of Steem.

I'm Glad I Didn't Quit

It would have been easy to leave the platform at any time during the dark days. I could have powered down, sold off my Steem and disappeared.

Yet now it seems that we have a fighting chance again to make Steemit the crown jewel of all social media. I hope more changes like HF20 are in the works to make the platform valuable.

And when we come into our own, everyone who is already part of the phenomenon now will be glad that they were early adopters. Hooray for us!

Thank you all for still being here. Amazing things are going to happen.