Hard Fork 25: The Aftermath
If you read the title and came here looking for a post heavy with statistics, code, or algorithms, you absolutely came to the wrong place. Instead I just wanted to take a second to express my thoughts about the hard fork Hive experienced yesterday.
After being on the Hive blockchain for over three years I have seen my fair share of hard forks. Most notably was the hard fork that got us to where we are today, the grand daddy of them all when Hive was created.
Although yesterday gave us a figurative metric crapload of changes to the Hive blockchain it was almost forgettable. Quite honestly, there are probably quite a few people who use Hive but don't even realize what happened yesterday.
In about seven days they will start to notice that their curation rewards have increased (or not, some people aren't as particular about tracking that stuff), smile, and move on with their lives.
What I am saying is this hard fork was so smooth. I mean like glass smooth. Like 30 year scotch smooth. Think of the smoothest thing you can imagine and then multiply it by 100 and you might be sort of close to how smoothly this went.
At least from my vantage point. It is possible there were some crazy situation room style things going on behind the scenes that the witnesses had to scramble to take care of. If that was the case, we never noticed it. In fact, after the hard fork I feel like the chain was more stable than it has been in weeks. Perhaps because so many witnesses were finally running the code.
I thought I was going to have to share this screenshot this morning and point out how many of the top 20 witnesses had yet to move over to the hard fork 25 software. As you can see, that isn't the case. Every single one of the top 25 made the move. In fact, you have to drop all the way down to 38 before you find a witness that isn't running it. I am guessing maybe @holger80 is on vacation or something and will get to it when they get back.
In any event, I think it is safe to say that this hard fork was an overwhelming success. Hardly even a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things. At least as far as downtime and issues are concerned. The actual changes implemented in this hard fork will have lasting effects on every Hive account in one or multiple ways.
My hats off to the witnesses and developers. As someone else mentioned yesterday you did what a whole company with an insane amount of money and backing failed to do time and time again. As much as I want to slam Steemit, we have to be careful because I think some of the same developers from there are still working on Hive. It is just good to see what a difference a defined purpose and direction can make.
If there was ever a doubt that Hive is its own chain community created and community driven, that should be finally laid to rest with HF25.
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