Well hive news that you hear is mostly all rumor, there is nothing concrete other than a hard fork is incoming, which is a regular and nothing but a software update.
Regarding land card: now I figured out the main bottleneck, and it is Cinder!
The trouble is, if I burn those cheap CL cards, then those are gone, and never coming back. Since I have empty plots to put them in, I am left with a difficult choice, it is prudent to burn them to get 6 total card (land cards). Or to keep them and turn on 100 plots, but block 100 * $40 or about $4000 in DEC, for a 10% return?
I love how you boil it down AZ! I knew you'd get the tradeoffs and understand the implications quickly... glad you're back!
and on the official post, we are close to releasing it. We should have the code shipped by Friday so I will be more comfortable with the deadlines/information once that happens.