I'll be here answering questions for a bit.
I'm Marky, Ask Me Anything.
4 years ago in AskMe by themarkymark (80)
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What do you have in your pockets right now?
I'm in underwear. ;)
PROVE IT.
I can't, I just took them off.
Why are you a rabbit?
No, I was told my avatar was too scary for what I do, so I made it less scary.
"Scary man do bad thing put me on global blacklist"
"Little bunny man put me on blacklist, so all is okay"
Essentially.
My first assumption when I saw your avatar was the Rabbit of Caerbannog. Little could be more terrifying. I find it comforting honestly, though.
Which is better, something that appears to be helpful and friendly but is actually capable of terminal violence and seeking means of penetrating your defenses by stealth towards that end, or something with the same purpose that looks the part?
Thanks!
Always best to know the enemy and prepare for the unexpected
I learned this from my ex-wife.
May you remain forever ignorant of that lesson.
What is your criteria in curating content? By the way, are you curating?
Yes, I am curating, I vote over 120 unique authors weekly and all my voting power is used on others, my minimum vote is typical $3 when you factor in all my votes.
I typically start voting someone that I appreciate their effort, it is not a requirement for me to actually like their content, I vote a lot of people I don't like what they post about (because it isn't in my interest groups) but I appreciate the time and effort put into it.
Time, effort, and originality are big for me, I don't have to actually agree with what you write.
Your support for my effort is much appreciated. I know that art and art history is a niche subject here on Hive. I do enjoy learning about it and sharing with others!
Is your name secretly Marty?
Nope.
Have you found a place for Trump in your heart?
No
How many chickens would it take to be able to kill a lion?
I don't have lions in my battle simulator, so I had to use Kangaroos, I figure 2:1 ratio for Kangaroo to Lion.
Looks like 25 chickens would win.
Looks like they gang banged the roo.
What game is this? Where can I find it
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator on Steam.
Awesome I thought it might have been this caveman battle simulator but I will definitely check it out! I was a big fan of spore, despite its limitations it is still infinitely fun. I have got to try this game out.
I want to see every one of those "players" assigned a hive account i want to see this happen with real steem and hive accounts.
I want to see every one of those "players" assigned a hive account i want to see this happen with real steem and hive accounts.
I note that it is unlikely even hundreds of chickens could kill a lion. I say this having seen chickens that fed on cattle. Perhaps a slight adjustment to your battle simulator will produce more realistic results.
Why did you bang qa's mom?
You haven't?
It seemed like the thing to do at the time.
what do you think will happen to steem and steemit in the long time?
If they keep freezing accounts they are going to likely get into legal problems and get delisted. I think they are already at risk for being delisted due to being so centralized they are pretty much an illegal security at this point.
The only thing going on Steem right now is censorship, stealing users tokens, known abusers being given large Steemit Inc delegation, and bribing users with Steemit Inc delegation and votes.
Prior to the stealing of tokens and censorship, I felt we would go in different directions, just that Hive would be much faster and have more potential. Now I have zero faith in Steem and it's future.
If there was one thing you could do again , or over what would it be?
Your mom.
LOL!
He got you good.
He did geesh.
Where did you hide the bodies?
In the fish tank.
What's the next raspberry pi project going to be?
I want to build a new RetroPie for my TV using a Pi 4 since it is a lot faster. Need to get a hold of one but they are have been price gouging as it was so new.
I really want to do that Time Machine ratio but I don't have the wood working chops.
How to eat a raspberry pi.
Same way you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.
What is the meaning of life?
42
hahah good answer :)
Welcome to the Hive AMA community 😀
At least your AMA is better than the Ned/JSUN AMA. Enjoy & Have fun!
This comment is better than their AMN (Ask me nothing).
I would hope so. Ask me nothings are boring.
What makes you laugh?
Pretty much anything, I realized really quickly on Steem (and now Hive) if I didn't laugh I'd probably cry.
Seriously though, I'd be class clown if I wasn't a dropout.
Foxy furries.
How many death threats have you received ?
20-30ish for actual "death threats" but far more for other things.
Do you like cats or dogs?
I love all animals, but I'd probably have a slight preference to dogs but I've never owned one, but I have owned a cat.
How do you manage to always appear so calm?
I don't see things as black and white which seems to be an epidemic. If someone disagrees with you they are evil and bad. I respect that people may have a different opinion than me and I don't hate them for it.
Ah yes, I was saying this to my sister in law yesterday. Complex thinking seems a rarity. Polarised debate and extreme reactions seem the new norm. Perhaps a kind of identity preservation in an anxious and unstable world - to protect a sense of self, of belonginghood. I appreciate your calm on HIVE.
If you were to sacrifice one valuable thing you have for another Firefly season, what would it be?
As much as I love Firefly, I think it is too late now. There are talks of a reboot though, but if we're in Fantasy land and we could have them back to back, I'd probably give up ever knowing about Game of Thrones. Season 8 was enough to ruin the entire thing.
Have you watched The Expanse? (or read the books) it is pretty good.
Yes, also check out Dark Matter and Cowboy Bebop
I'll check out Dark Matter. Cowboy Bebop is a classic!
If you had to keep only one between your two arms and your balls, which would you choose? 🤔
I'd keep my arms, of course, the other just get in the way and make too much noise.
Are they steel balls?
No, but can you imagine hearing this for hours at a much faster pace.
Definitely the arms...
Now I'm definitely having a nightmare
Sweet dreams...
I can break them for you
For free
As much I think you would enjoy it, I'm good thanks.
What is your current lunch obsession?
I just got over Grilled Cheeses and Ramen Noodles, now it's pretty much anything available. We don't go shopping much these days (once every few weeks).
Lunch tends to be leftovers from the night before. We have been doing pretty good about making groceries last for a couple of weeks but it requires a lot more meal planning than we have been used to.
Not being able to order out in a pinch really sucks.
Don't restaurants/normal takeouts deliver anymore? Here it seems like even the restaurants that never delivered are changing to doing delivery nowadays. Tonight I had a very great meal from one of my favourite restaurants that I wanted to support by buying one of their 'boxes for 2': it existed of Portuguese/Spanish/Arabic tapas, with fresh Focaccia bread that was still warm from the oven <3
I've also been lucky as it's easy to get groceries delivered once every week so I'm still eating Grilled Cheeses but also my recently discovered Feta/Pistache spread that I make with a lot of lemon and red pepper in it.
They do deliver, but we just don't want to take the risk. We order (and pickup) from a local roadhouse we love once every 2 weeks or so, we wipe everything container down and move all the food to our own plates and wash all our hands really well. It's a big pain in the ass.
Ahhh - I see. Yes, I 'calculated' the risk of ordering food, and decided I was okay with it. It's finding a balance that feels right though, and I can totally see why you wouldn't.
Stay healthy <3
We did order for a while into it, but we have been far more preventative lately and stopped probably 1-2 months ago.
How much of the 96k mvests of sleeping whale stake are powered up?
Can we get our ten percent back from the Devs now that they have a dev fund?
Excluding the DAO, here are the current stats as of a minute ago.
Yes, thank you, if you look on arcange's stats you will see that 96k mvests are dormant in a number of whale accounts.
I presume that dormancy is subject to withdrawal.
What happens when 96k mvests hit the market?
Do we get a warning of a power down, or is it liquid?
Is it Ned's?
It is definitely not going away, and it is making my carpet lumpy.
Probably not much different than the millions upbit is dumping right now as they didn't airdrop their users.
Ouch.
I thought that was a requirement of getting dropped?
And we are still pumping?
So, it's not a big deal?
~50m steem.
It was but that one didn't respond in time and it got an airdrop anyway.
There is no reasonable assumption everyone is going to dump at once, the same stake was liquid on Steem for years.
Yes, while it is true that stake has been benign to this point, the odds seem, to me, to be stacked that that is stake of some folks that have worked against us in the past.
This doesn't have to be true, but I have no evidence one way, or the other.
I'm just trying to head this little surprise off at the pass.
If I had millions of USD I'd want to know, and not wanting to have another four years of work turned on its head by the same folks, I'd like to know.
It's past time to upgrade my coder skillz to script kiddie and start pulling my own numbers.
Everybody will love me then!
Ty!
Are you still in contact with the funky Bunch?
I wish I knew Mark Walburg, I'd make a rap song with him.
If you had to use one condiment on everything you eat what would it be? Any food you stuffed you face with had to have this condiment on it... no exceptions. 😜😜
BBQ Sauce, generally Sweet Baby Ray's
If you had to do jury duty, what kind of trial would you want?
hostile takeover of a blockchain and exchange manipulation
Should I wait to trade my powered down Steem for hive or do it now? I’m not asking for advice, just your opinion.
Not financial advice, and who knows what the prices of either may be in 24 hours much less 30 minutes. But I am selling my Steem immediately, I originally planned on selling 80% and keeping 20% in case Justin Sun pumps it, but at this point, I have zero confidence in Steem and the sock puppet witnesses running it.
Thanks Marky
Does your quarantine menu only consist of grilled cheese sandwiches?
No, it's actually pretty good.
I really can't complain about the menu. It's just so much more work as we have to plan which foods will expire when and cook them in the correct order, order 2-3x more than we normally would, and put 2x in the freezer to pull out after the first week of fresh foods (namely meats).
I find we are cooking a lot more and planning ahead a lot more.
If life is a video game, what cheat code would you use?
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start of course
Hey, Mark. If dustin bun challenges you to a boxing match like one of those cringey YouTubers, will you fight him?
Nah, I never learned to box, I prefer Martial Arts personally.
How marky are you?
On a scale of Marky to Marky, I'm pretty Marky.
Follow up question: How did you get so marky?
There was an official training course.
How does the endless pumping feel?! I'm starting to get bored (after having danced naked yesterday)
It is exciting and reassuring that we did the right thing to move away from Steem. I am not naive though and know this is 90% fomo.
I thought it was FOMO at first (Huobi listing), now I'm thinking there's something I don't know.
For example, there might be a Koinos airdrop to Hive holders which only some whale knows about. I figure you might know if this was the case as a witness.
If there's no hidden news of the sort, then I simply believe crypto is back in a bull market, and other coins will see similar price action soon.
There are two massive exchanges that listed Hive.
There is also a huge airdrop being held by Huobi based on how much Hive you are holding. There are many other factors like most of the whales on Steem are dumping Steem to buy Hive.
Do you feel vindicated with the Hive price going up?
I for sure feel like we made the right move to go in a different direction than Steem and the sock puppet witnesses. Every day that passes confirms that for me.
Yeah, sad that Steem becomes a centralized blockchain now. But an interesting learning came out. Blockchains have to fend off exchange attacks in their design. That is totally unreal.
I used to participate in many crypto project articles under cateredcontent on the Steem chain, and trust me, I have learned of "n" number of nefarious attack mitigation plans by those chains. Not one, absolutely none of them, spoke of a exchange attack. The Steem chain has warned the world of a new kind of attack. I guess, that is going to be part of all new designs.
Anyway, thanks for your time and thank you for your kindness which I just witnessed. :)
What determines what your profile picture will be?
Not the most exciting question we know, however we always look forward to what it will be next, great ones include the Firefly Captain and star of the Rookie Nathan Fillion better known as Captain Malcolm Reynolds :( greatly missed and of course Marty McFly, 'I think he took his wallet' and now a bunny, or a chinchilla, guinea pig something cute. Stay safe and you should do this every now and then, as should other Hive'ers.
Well it is always Mal Reynolds in my heart, but I will give you a story of the transition.
I started Steem on July 1st, 2017. I didn't actually do anything until July 22nd. On the 26th I set my profile image to Mal Reynolds from Firefly (my favorite show).
Shortly after someone made me this cover image that I used since then.
That was 99% of my Steem history until the meeting with Justin Sun and Roy kept calling me different names, Marty being one of them. Being the jokester I am, I changed my profile image and cover image to go with the Marty McFly theme from Back to the Future. At this point my Steem life was dying, and Hive was being born.
When I came to Hive, I went with a Punisher theme, I wanted something different and was just one of the first things I thought of. Mainly because I like black and it looked cool, I planned on changing it later to something more interesting and have a custom profile image. It wasn't the great cover image, but I was just trying to get something up other than the Marty McFly theme.
I was approached by someone shortly after saying my profile was too aggressive for someone who does anti-spam and abuse fighting, and I should do something less so. Being the wiseass I am, I just picked the cutest bunny I could pick and something that looked like a rainbow for the cover image that didn't get stretched to look awful.
Hope that helps, it was a wild ride.
Well great taste in sci fi, one of my favourite t's is Mal with I shoot First, your humour knows no bounds. Reading that made the profile saga become clear and made me laugh too, I also did wonder where the bunny came from, mystery solved - what a wild ride indeed.
I await the next potentially crazy profile pic, thank you
What are you scared of?? Your biggest fear? Silly or serious, no matter. So what are you scared of?
One of my biggest fears is swimming outside of pools. I am a big fan of swimming and hanging out in a pool, but swimming in the ocean and lakes creeps me the fuck out. I hate not knowing what is below me, not being able to see, and all the slimy stuff.
I do go to the beach and love being in the water, but I will hold my legs up trying to avoid the ground.
Thats a great one Marky. My daughters best friend is the exact same way. After realizing that we only know about 8% of our oceans I won't jump out in the middle of them anymore but I was a Miami baby. Always out in some kind of water. Even in lakes with gators.. not today... no sir. Great answer 🤟 oh and I wear water shoes. I hate touching shit too. FLORIDA lakes are the worst. You sink in up to your knee and shit. Ha
Are you really called mark or is this all a lie?
I create random names for every site I join. When I joined Steem I had a hard time finding a name that wasn't taken, so I was double double names dogdog, froggyfrog, markymark type of names, I hate finding names not used. Themarkymark was free, I didn't think too much into it and the Mark Walburg reference.
I posted a lot of Firefly memes as I am a big fan of the show and someone made me a Firefly cover image so I just went in that direction. I wish I could have gotten the account @serenity. That would have been my top choice.
You would seem so different as a serenity
Interedsting, bet Nog has @serenity, ngl.
Marky or Marty? What is your preferred pronoun?
I think Marky is cooler. I just went with Marty for the lols.
How old are you? Married?😅
I am married with one child (boy), I don't disclose my age and a few other details.
Okay :)
Where will the Hive price top out this time?
anyone who answers this is full of shit.
Plenty of people qualified for that then :)
Is HIVE going to $1 in the next day or two?
See my previous answer
Yes or no? I wont file if you are incorrect
I have no idea, these things are not predictable.
If I was to guess, I think there is a really good chance (not financial advice) but the floor can drop any time as well.
what will the first mainstream commercial application / adaption of HIVE in the "real world" be?
I think commerce, there has been lots of talk about Hive payment widget for eCommerce. If I knew the answer to this, I'd start building it.
Any plans for app/game, marketing etc.... by yourself or in team in the future?
I have a few games I've been wanting to make. I just haven't done it as it is very difficult to make a game in crypto as everyone wants rewards and it is very difficult to make a game with rewards that people will continue to play that isn't gambling or a ponzi both being illegal and not something I want to be part of.
For marketing, I am very interested in this and thinking about ways how I can market my STEMGeeks community to onboard users with similar interests as me.
I also want to be part of efforts to market Hive in general and there are discussions starting on this.
Thanks!
small, medium and large gaming companies have tons of games that haven't made it into publishing.. just one of those mmogs with a decent game play and tokenized items / goods and reward system could IMHO be a hughe success
But people play those games for fun and because there is a lot of content. If Blizzard came to Hive and build a game with tons of content there would be no need for rewards and it would likely be successful.
yes.. for sure.. but the combination of both is what would make players addicted... just look at the past steem games.. the game design and tech was more or less early 2000s.. people played it only for rewards without having too much fun.. the now a day games are fabulous.. people play it for fun.. and in every game there is a reward system included (better weapons, levels, etc..) because the brain reacts to rewards, tips, money and tokens the same way it does to drugs... so the comibation of the two would be an addictive game (like pokemon go + earning cash with it).. maybe the killer app bringing hive to the masses
I'm with you here. I remember playing Everquest when it first launched and being amazed seeing people sell digital magical items on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Blockchain just takes out the middlemen and costs. Hive can make any in-game economy into a real world economy.
Rather than build from scratch, I think a Hive team could look at a partnership with an existing game or licensing software. Mindark and its Entropia platform have always come to mind.
https://www.entropiauniverse.com/entropia-universe/
https://www.mindark.com/mindarks-offer/entropia-platform/
Who do you hate the most?
Manipulation and lying.
Not what, who.
Yeah @Manipulation and @Lying are two of the worst people on the platform
Neither exist. @moowoof(aka @cadawg) wanna claim me a few accounts?
Guessing he means "Justin Sun" lol
I wanna hear it from him.
AMA from Justin Sun?
Lol ...
oh my bad, didn't see the who. In life or Steem/Hive?
I generally don't hate people, some annoy me but I generally don't get to the point of hate.
Overall. One person. Who is that one person that you hate the most.
Trump probably.
Do you know that the memehub community founder is trying to create a website for memes based on hive/SMTs ( or whatever they'll be called).
No, but I am not surprised. I think SMTs will bring some interesting projects much like Steem/Hive Engine did.
Would you be interested in some curation in the future, when we get things off the ground :) ?
I tend to curate as I see things I appreciate (a lot of times I don't specifically appreciate it, but I appreciate the effort), I don't commit to any one thing.
Fair enough, just a heads up that we try to make some dank memes on memehub
Anything?
You are free to ask anything. I will answer to the best of my ability within reason.
Thanks for the answer.
That seemed like the most appropriate question given the title.
can you tell us the story how you became a whale?
I sold my Ethereum mining to kickstart my presence on Steem, I devoted a large portion of my free time to it. In a word, hustle.
;-) great! THX!
Where's @exyle?
I think he is in Exile. Not sure.
😂🤣.. Its alright
When is Marky Mark Day?
I didn't know I had a day. If I did, it would be Saturday. I know most people say they love Fridays, but that seems silly why would you love a day you work half of it? If the whole point of loving Fridays is because of the weekend, why not love Saturday?
I heard Marky Mark Day first from Drew on The Price is Right. And yes, I love Saturday.
But this video won't work in the comment.
If you do get it to work then Check out 7:00 on this video for a laugh about Marky Mark Day
Hey @themarkymark! Do you thank that this would be a good implementation on HIVE?
👉 https://hive.blog/development/@steemit-life/a-hive-honey-smart-contract
I posted this about 9 days ago, and I tried to send you a message regarding it.
Please take a look if you have a moment:)
I would love to know your thoughts, and if you know any HIVE developers that could achieve this?
Thanks for your time and attention @themarkymark!
P.S... And I couldn't change my main account name to "Hive-Life", Instead of what it currently is, "Steemit-Life". So don't get freaked out, okay? I'm not here to take over the chain:)
I looked at it before, I don't really get why we would give free tokens to people for typing on the keyboard.
For the same reason you (and me) get rewarded for posts, comments, and upvotes. We get rewarded tokens for also "typing on the keyboard"! lol...You also get rewarded for videos, gifs, memes, walking, talking, cooking, music, tutorials, games, etc... As a matter of fact, You are getting rewarded tokens right now for answering AMA questions, while "typing on a keyboard!" $31.20 as of the time of this comment:) So why is your post valuable? Because people want access to your time and attention. Regardless of the reasoning. Could be a silly comment/joke/knowledge/info/rewards etc...BUT, not everyone can achieve these level of rewards. So I feel that a system has to be put in place to even out the playing field.
Not to mention the Time, Effort, Work, and Attention that's Needed to fulfill the Contract. Other Things To Consider Are:
Thanks again @themarkymark for reading my post/comments around this subject. Also giving me your feedback. I appreciate your time, and attention!
Alright, I'm going to ask a serious one this time. Hopefully I can get another one in, and it hasn't been more than a bit. It's basically the same instant in cosmological time after all.
Can you answer any of these questions?
That's sort of sneaky, since it's a few questions in one, but I didn't see many restrictions on what one can ask.
In case that turns out to be unacceptable, I'll include one singular question here as a backup.
Has the chain ID used in transaction signing changed since the hard fork from Steem?
Thanks for your consideration.
The chain id has not changed, but that's one of the key things in HF24 that will be addressed. It wasn't ideal but it was due to time limitations.
Thanks a lot.
That's useful to me, and now I'll know to keep an eye out for what it changes to after HF24.
So many hard forks around here.
Is it further to Wal-Mart or by bicycle?
I am not sure I understand the question.
It is a nonsense question.
I've never had a sober person be able to answer it, but for some reason drunk people can always definitively answer it.