Since you were on the front lines, I will ask you because I have not seen much on this since Justin Sun took over steem in early Feb ...
Has testing/development of the SMT hardfork essentially stopped or is it a slow crawl? Where do we stand with that? Thanks.
Testing has halted. Development has slowed down significantly, while we stabilize the network and perform a core improvements before going back to SMTs.
The issue with SMTs is that it's a huge beast that needs full focus if we want to release it, and right now we have a lot of higher priority tasks that needs to be done before releasing it. But I'm sure that we will get back at full speed on it after we are done with stabilizing and securing the chain.
That’s great! And makes a lot of sense. Thank you Martin. After my comment, I read your introduction post which hit on the topic. Sorry about that.
I am curious to see how Hive fills the holes left behind by vandeberg and gerbino. I was tracking their activity on github and they were producing a lot of daily updates in Jan and Feb. Hopefully Hive has the devs to pick up where they left off. It is hard to take over a project midstream like that.