I am not sure people are buying the big votes, but the bug accounts can give them away whilst reaping the curation rewards. I did check some actual bots, but they are not that active for now. I and others will pounce on anyone who just buys votes.
I will mainly just take curation from my auto-votes on Steem until I have powered down. I cannot be bothered to post there any more. It will indeed be interesting to see how the prices go. People may be powering down on both, but I would hope those looking to go with Hive will be selling Steem to buy HIVE. That could be millions of Steem.
Fun times.
I saw that too.
I'd started a power down on steem a week or so before the hive fork and when I checked into my new hive wallet it was also powering down as that was what the snapshot took of the steem blockchain.
I cancelled the hive power down which also cancelled the steem power down! To early I guess?
Now it's settled down a bit. I stopped the hive power down and restarted the steem power down.
I assume that there are many accounts that maybe haven't realised that this happened?
I think there was some issue that caused that initially. Some will want to cash out the airdrop anyway if they are not bothered about the community. I hope to boost my HP considerably in the next few weeks.
I've been watching the markets and should have sold off the liquid hive last week like a lot of people did.
I could have bought it back now and doubled my hive but day trading is so dull! 😂👍
I'm just a hodler I guess 😂👍
I didn't get the best rate on what I sold for Steem on Friday. Would get a better rate now. I may wait a bit this week. I would hope to get to at least 40k HP. Not going to worry if I don't optimise my trades.