As you all know, many of us lost our potential payouts after the implementation of HF18. I lost around 50 dollars on the day, and I have to say it did bother me a little. It wasn't that I felt the money was owed to me, but rather that I was disappointed in the lack of communication between the dev team and the community.

However much I may have disliked the way HF18 was handled, HF19 has more than made up for it.

Not only have seen an increase in my potential payouts that greatly exceeds that of the losses I endured at HF18, but my upvote is now worth an astonishing $1.60, where as before it was $0.05...

I'm very excited about things, and I can feel that this hard fork is going to result in the largest influx of new users to date. Also, with the linear rewards curve, there is an added incentive to power up or buy STEEM so that you can feel the satisfaction of rewarding others with amounts they can actually benefit from.

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Never before have I considered $20 STEEM a real possibility. But, with all these YouTube stars emigrating to Steemit, and with more and more improvements coming to the way things are done here, I no longer think $100 STEEM is impossible.

STEEM the fuck on, people!