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True the freezing of the Steem would have an impact on the individuals while STEEM holds value. They would still have the value in HIVE. So, I guess how significant would depend on which gets and/or holds value. It would not have had any impact on the outcome though, the HF still would have happened.

...the HF still would have happened.

The hard-fork is awesome, long live the HIVE.

They finally did what they had been telling everyone else to do.

Basically, "if you don't like "the steem community", GTFO".