Cheers @arcange
Yes, do let me know if you launch the proposal again, as I have to come on hive 1/week to manage some of my portfolio in HE tokens and try to keep track of any HBD pumps etc.
From the few conversations we had in Krakow, I felt you were a genuine person who put a lot into - steem as it was then - now hive. Being a writer, I genuinely trust my instincts with people as they've rarely steered me wrong. That is why I'm running a mile from hive right now because my instincts, and agent, have both aligned to tell me to get out and focus all my energy on what will either bring real success, and readership, or not, if my 1st draft WIP isn't good enough.
As to lordbutterfly's proposal, I remember seeing his accountability posts, and I'm not dissing him in regards to transparency - but the altcoin space is so saturated with Ponzi schemes and out-and-out copied projects from the 2017 ICO craze just dressed up as something new - that I personally think there was only one thing needed to be done with the reasonably high budget LordButterfly got... and that was to pay 3-4 famous crypto YouTubers to promote (and use) hive, and to negotiate with them to continue promoting it and publishing via 3speak etc. This would have shown all their followers the potential of hive, and perhaps got some or even all of them to migrate to hive.
If you fancy reading something funny check out this post I made years ago now about one of 2 con ICO's I sunk some ETH into in 2017:
I'm only sharing this because it's true shitcoins like that one, that colour people's opinions about all altcoins, and any Hive marketing needs to get people past that initial distrust as there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who've been stung like I was. Anyway, food for thought.
There is no denying that the likes of Eliotrades, Bitboy, Crypto Zombie, Ivanontech and many others have questionable tactics involving themselves in (paid) promotions of coins that they then dump at least their own stack pretty sharpish, but this is just what we have to work with for now in the crypto space.
A million new Dapps can be made on hive, but if no one knows about them, they'll never get used and so the cycle of lost potential continues.
I tried everything possible I knew to bring high-quality writer's on board creating @theinkwell community , as well as running a radio show back in the steem days called 'literary corner'. To be brutally honest, I found that none of the big stake holders I met at SF3 gave two fucks about helping me attract what is potentially a billion-strong global audience to hive, despite declining literacy rates in the USA there are still billions of people worldwide that enjoy reading novels, novellas and short fiction.
Even before the hardfork to Hive, I noticed big people with big SteemPower squandering an opportunity that was right there in front of them, and it made me lose faith to a great extent, mainly because the likes of Vlogging is alreaddy monopolised by Youtube, but short fiction, in particular, has a limited amount of journals out there publishing great up-and-coming writers. Hive has the potential to be a fantastic place to nurture these types of writers, and it only takes one person to write a best seller and then promote hive as a place to read some of their earlier self-published works, and that would bring more eyes to hive than any amount of $10k/week fancy digital marketing agency. I've worked in marketing in the past and 80% of it is complete bullshit. Action plans, research to identify primary markets, paid google ads 😂 This makes me laugh as Google has already blacklisted hive for 1st-page listings as I've checked by publishing the exact same article (with industry-standard SEO) on both Medium and Hive... guess which showed up 1st page? Yup, it was the medium article, despite my publishing it first on hive.
Lol, anyways I've said my piece. I've better things to do working on my manuscript, but I thought I'd take the time to outline some of my thoughts as someone who has been a consistent content creator on here for over 5 years.
All the best to you and your family 🙂