I am just looking at where the witnesses will go here in RC1. Right now I have two servers that have RAMed out so to speak. Witness and a seed node.

Both were hardware maxed at 32 GB Ram and the blockchain has run past that operational capacity. I want to keep running witness servers but the cost of a 128GB ram server is cost prohibitive if you're not being rewarded at least 10 STEEM a day. that requires you be in the top 75 witnesses.

I am really looking forward to 1.0 but I am not holding my breath it will truly be the change we all are looking for.
The flag wars will likely still continue and good content creators will be snubbed by evil whales with an agenda based in their own greed.
The ability to signup new users must be fixed, I know onboarding is one of the main task for 1.0 but can they really do it?

All the foot dragging and the length of time we have been in HF 19 has been discouraging and lead to my recent lack of site participation.

I hope release candidate 1 is all it has been built up to be. I will however remain skeptical until I have fully embedded myself in it