I don't know about you, but I wanted to know all the details surrounding who was able to get the Steem blockchain up and running when it was down for a solid day, and I just found out it was @abit.

I just learned through @holger80's post that @abit was responsible for giving a patch to the Steem blockchain so that it was functional again.....how quickly we all forget that Steem was down for most of a solid day....now that we're embroiled with the DLive fiasco.

From @holger80's article we learn:

"After the hf20 fork was activated, blocks that produced by hf20 nodes were not accepted anymore by hf19 nodes. This lead to a fork and as the exchanges are on hf19, it was decided to move to the hf19 chain.

Thank to @abit and its four patches:

checkpoint fix
2048 fork db fix
plus 2048
filter out blocks on the bad fork

@gtg was able to start the steem blockchain again together with @abit. Then @roelandp could also jump in and the steem block production was slowly starting again.

I voted for @abit as witness now, to express my gratitude that he saved steem :)." -Holger80

There you have it. This is the information I never saw, and something you should think long and hard about. I had already voted for @abit a long time ago, but @abit is currently at number 19 on the Witness list, despite him being the one that ran the patches to save your ass on Steem. I voted for @holger80 as well, for providing this critical information that I had not seen anywhere else.

Read the entire story here: @holger80/steem-recovered-from-the-hf20-fork-thanks-to-abit-and-its-emergency-patches

Thanks for your attention today. Time to vote.