View this post on Hive: [Design a Mars Colony - Win a Prize!](https://peakd.com/@apshamilton/design-a-mars-colony-win-a-prize)

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In mid-February 2020 Justin Sun acquired the shares in Steemit Inc and proceeded centralise the blockchain under his control, improperly using Steemit's founders stake (intended for development and decentralisation of the blockchain) and tricking exchanges into initially supporting his power grab.

After extensive efforts to resolve the dispute failed, the community revolted and formed a new, fully decentralised blockchain - Hive - without the pernicious influence of Justin Sun and his minions. 
Because of Open Source licensing, Hive was legally able to duplicate all the code and content on Steem.
The vast majority of the community and decentralised applications and projects moved to Hive and Hive was listed on many cryptocurrency exchanges without having to pay the normal listing fees.

On 19 May 2020, a Steem hard fork (0.23) designed to steal the Steem from 65 accounts associated with creating Hive became public.
My position on this hard fork can be found here: https://peakd.com/hf23/@brianoflondon/letter-to-exchanges-do-not-run-steem-hard-fork-23-hf-0-23-0

This was the final straw for my involvement with Steem.

I will now post exclusively on Hive at https://peakd.com/@apshamilton/posts
All my old Steem content can also be found on Hive.


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I've been involved with [The Mars Society](http://www.marssociety.org/) since its creation 20 years ago.
I set up the Australian Chapter and organised an Australian tour by Dr Robert Zubrin in the late 1990s.

Now Elon Musk has taken up The Mars Society's ideas, developed them and put real money and engineering behind the endeavour to settle the Red Planet.
This is a very exciting time!

With cost effective, large capacity transport to Mars looking like a real possibility, its time to work on the reality of building human settlements on Mars.

**Hence the Mars Society has announced a new competition.**

http://www.marssociety.org/mars-colony-prize-design-the-first-human-settlement-on-mars/

This is a chance for creative and scientific Steemians to show they have The Right Stuff!

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