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Finland is now officially on lock-down mode. As I said when buying the house a few weeks ago about being prepared for worst case scenario, this is about it - but.... fuck it. Life goes on. 

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Worst case scenarios and the continuance of life is something that I have often enough considered as I don't expect my own body to carry me too far through this particular life, although I don't plan on speeding up the process too much intentionally - it has just seen too much illness from a young age to leave it in god enough condition. 

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How I see my investments of late is "it's only money" and while I am acutely aware of what not having money and carrying debt means, I also understand enough that at the end of the day, life is quite meaningless - other than the meaning we give it. I and my family might end up destitute, but even under those conditions, I do not believe I will be trapped that way - nor do I believe that I wouldn't end up in a position where I couldn't provide for the real needs of my daughter. 

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These photos were taken as she and I walked for an hour or two today. It is hard for a three year old to be stuck at home with boring parents that have to work - but damn I was amazed at how well she took day one. Considering she doesn't have any screen time, she is bloody good at keeping herself amused. What is going to be terrible is that her grandparents are effectively quarantined and stuck in their home due to the risks of their age for at least a month - and she was really looking forward to seeing them tomorrow for a walk. They are very close, and they haven't gone a month without seeing her since she was born. 

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I can already feel myself going a little stir crazy at just the thought of being trapped with very little social interaction. Luckily I will have Steem as an outlet.... Hive? I don't mind hive at all to be honest, as I have commonly referred to Steem as a hive and used bees often as a metaphor.

This was from a week or two ago, when writing that money can buy many things, [but it can't buy a community.](https://steemit.com/hive-174578/@tarazkp/bees-spiders-tweets-and-sloppy-people)

>Remember that part of the Steem code is called Hivemind and without a centralized leader, the Steem blockchain is the queen bee. Poke the nest, the worker bees will protect their home under royal decree.

I went on to add:

>Because everyone is bound to the same blockchain, the decentralized structure of Steem means that there is not just one hive, there are many, but they are all interconnected and activated in unison - much like pulling on the thread of a spider's web will send a signal across the entire network.

But I am guessing calling the new chain "The spider" is off the cards.

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These rocks remind me of Justin Sun's investment in Steem. First frozen, now waiting to be dropped to the bottom of the lake at the thaw. It is a pity, because if he had played his cards right, this place and his investment could have actually been worth something significant. 

Well, whatever happens, I really hope that the Steem community can transition and at least for some modicum of time, work together to become a strong and truly decentralized community. What I am expecting is a lot of the same people doing what they can to extract value though. Kingscrown is probably already dropping links and lines in chat trying to shore up support. 

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It is going to be interesting however as essentially there is going to be a lot of resets when it comes to the automation, and I wonder how many will choose to support the same contributors. This is good and bad of course, but does create opportunities that some didn't have before. Though, still gotta do the consistent  grind, something many haven't been able to successfully do on Steem, so I am not expecting them to do it anywhere else. 

For quite a few years there have been those saying that if only they were here at the start, and now they get that opportunity - except with a somewhat better set of conditions - *on average.* Early on, if one was able to get the support from the handful of accounts that had SP, things were good to the tune of hundreds of thousands of Steem rewards. That won't be the case under a chain with better distribution, however, it will make it easier for accounts to get something, which will distribute the chain further. 

I do not know what @blocktrades and the other developers and witnesses have in mind for the new chain, but I hope that lessons have been learned from the last four years and we can get off to a flying start. What is going to be possible to leverage out of all of this volatility is, the marketing hype that the Steem community will have successfully protected itself from a predator looking to own the lives of the free. 

When you attack an invested community, you're always on thin ice.  

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]

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