Hive fork's story can be uniquely told by many and sometimes it doesn't get old listening to it over and over again. I remember being so stressed about Justin Sun taking over, and I didn't even know we were planning to fork, until the chain went live. EPIC story any day anytime.
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Aggroed held daily s**m Town Halls during that battle, sometimes lasting many hours. I listened through many of those hours. At some point, Blocktrades joined and only said a few words, something like: "We are working on a fork, which will be ready soon." And then he left the conversation. Maybe he said a few more words, but that's all I remember, and I remember he was very brief then. That's when the community (including Aggroed, apparently), first heard about the fork being worked on. Obviously, they didn't want to give heads up to JS about what they are doing, that's why the relative secrecy. Plus that it needed to be done quickly.
At the time, the talk was still revolving around... how do we take our chain back. In retrospect, that was impossible, after exchanges got involved.
Indeed. I was probably thinking we were going to roll over and agree to the terms of Justin Sun and all that. A few people were already talking about how beneficial it would be to have Justin Sun take over. Obviously when you have a hostile takeover like that, questions of loyalty begins to come into place.
Well, if one didn't know better about the guy, they could have thought it was a well-known face for st**m in the space, and we would have done better. But he surely proved his character very quickly for anyone who didn't know him.