Okay, first of all, I like your writing style, this was a good read!
Alright, onto the other thing! So, ever since I got back to the blogging on the blockchain thing, I have been wondering, what the heck happened to Steemit and why has everyone moved to Hive? You said:
something that Steemit Inc. got to learn the hard way first-hand with a huge backhand to the face.
So you must know something! You might even have an answer for me! Would I be lucky enough to finally learn what happened? Could you please tell me? I would be very grateful :-)
There's a lot of posts on Hive about it, but here's a detailed background post by Tim Copeland and a post I wrote a little before the launch of Hive:
https://decrypt.co/38050/steem-steemit-tron-justin-sun-cryptocurrency-war https://hive.blog/steem/@blocktrades/why-i-won-t-be-compromising-with-justin-sun
Wow, that reads like a plot for a movie. Must have felt like a roller coaster a year ago! Pretty awesome to see that the community banded together and just packed up and left to start over some place else.
Thanks so much @blocktrades for these links and for sating my curiosity!