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The Steem News @ 14 February 2020 #2 - Tron & Steem - the story so far

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Today Steemic Inc entered into a partnership with Justin Sun's Tron.

Ned Scott, co-founder of Steem and Chair of Steemit Inc sold Steemit Inc to Justin Sun of Tron.

So far, apart from Ned's single tweet, there have been no official announcements from the Steemit Inc team on the @steemitblog account or on their Twitter account.


The Timeline of Events...

4.08pm UTC - Justin Sun tweeted out the initial announcement of the partnership...

#tron and @steemit will create further value for users and augment their advancements in #decentralized technologies. This partnership further empowers @Tronfoundation’s title as the #blockchain industry’s leader in distributed ledger technology.

The tweet linked to the full press release on Medium...

Steemit Inc., the largest decentralized blockchain-based social media and blogging platform, announced a strategic partnership with TRON Foundation. TRON and Steemit’s development teams will immediately begin working together to bring Steemit and other Steem blockchain based DApps to TRON blockchain and its community of over 20 million users, products, and services....


4.11pm UTC - Justin Sun announced in a follow up tweet that he is doing a livestream with Ned Scott on DLive tomorrow, 15 February, at 9am PST / 5pm UTC....

STEEMIT2.0 #tron and #steemit leading in a new era of decentralized social networking.

Join me @OfficialDLive (http://dlive.tv/justinsun) at 9:00AM, Feb 15 (PST).

Let’s talk about Steem #dapps migration, $STEEM token swap, giveaways to #trx users and a new accelerator program.


4.18pm UTC - The Poloniex Exchange (now owned by Justin Sun & Tron) announced on Twitter that they will be supporting the STEEM token swap and that they will be relisting STEEM...

We’re excited to announce that we'll be supporting the upcoming $STEEM token swap for our users!

We’ll re-list #steem soon and bring back support for deposits and withdrawals...

https://support.poloniex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043406513


5.06pm UTC - Ned Scott announces in a tweet that he has sold Steemit to Justin Sun...

Steemitans and Twitterers, after four beautiful years, I have sold Steemit to @justinsuntron.

AMA tomorrow at 9am PT. https://medium.com/@TronFoundation/steemit-joining-tron-ecosystem-6ad66584d0b



That is the story so far as it has played out on Twitter. There have been no other announcements from the Steemit Inc team on Steem or on Twitter.

This of course has left a lot of questions unanswered.


Witness Forum - 15 February

@aggroed has announced he will be hosting an emergency Witness Forum on MSPWaves immediately after the DLive stream finishes. That Witness Forum will likely start around 11am PST / 2pm EST / 7pm UTC...


In case you can't get to either of these events directly @ecoinstant will be live tweeting them...


In the meantime @theycallmedan has been fielding some questions on an impromptu AMA post...



The Steem blockchain is now alive with commentary posts expressing a range of opinions about today's news.

Including some from witnesses...


And many from leading community members (in alphabetical order)...


And a couple from DApps...



Media Coverage



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This is #258b (14 Feb '20) of this daily news service.



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