Absolutely is news to be happy as large number of people were interested in mining for them that moment has reached finally to prepare themselves. What excites me more is technical part where implementation of proof of fraud for Bitcoin-NG consensus and improvement in scaling. There are so many noises but real work is happening here silently.
If you ask me this update was pretty awesome can't wait to try the aeternity's exchange app but I wish we would know on wish month they will release the mainnet.