.jpg)
Things You Might Not Know About Hive (Newbies)
For myself being in hive for well over 5 years now it can seem easy for understanding many things on hive and how it works. However clearly for others it's till a major challenge to get them involved. While there have been great attempts to make it easier to on board people it still falls short but we are getting there.
Step back and try to remember when you first joined hive. Do you remember all the questions you had and how confusing it was? Things like...
- bid bots (no longer a thing) Thankfully as that was during into a huge mess aka Steem
- Hive power and why you should power it up
- Curation rewards
- Curve on curation rewards
- Interacting with the community and getting votes
- Do comment votes matter
- Witness voting
- who controls hive
- and so on
Let's spend a moment and go over some basics that new users might not know.
Vote Witnesses To Support
Once you have some hive power you can then start to cast your vote for the top witnesses. These are mainly projects and developers that help the hive blockchain. It's still a bit of a challege to really know what each witness does and contributes unless you follow them and they write blog posts about it.
You can access this witness vote page in areas such as PeakD Witness Voting
While voting doesn't really earn you anything what it does do is gives you power to cast your vote on people/projects that you feel have hives best interests in mind.
As a witness they earn Hive for running the critical nodes that make hive run. Also in many cases they support or own other projects that make hive a better place such as Hive keychain, Splinterlands, LeoFinance and so on. Casting your vote is a very important part of making hive a healthy blockchain and community to be a part of.
Earning Hive
Hive has grown by a huge amount in the few years it's been around. From a blog only type platform that only interested a select few to a blockchain that now supports NFT art, NFT games, Blogging, Social media (Twitter, Facebook and I'm sure many others are on the way), DeFi and much more.
It's a rather expansive blockchain now but still a bit behind the times in terms of what it should be able to do and that comes down to a lack of development on the chain. If you're a dev I would HIGHLY recommend development on the Hive blockchain over some other larger blockchain right now that you would just get lost on. Plus the hive community has always show rather large support for devs and new projects to help them out. By doing a weekly progress report or other details it's a great way to help fuel your project while providing value and updates to the community.
Hive Is A Resource
We are just starting to see this. Hive is a resource that allows you to interact and do things on the hive blockchain. Have too little of it and you'll find yourself not able to perform actions you want.
As more applications come online it's going to be increasingly important for projects to have a bunch of hive to support the onboarding and general growth of their project.
How To Grow On Hive
I would highly recommend that at first you don't blog or don't blog often unless you have something really awesome to share with people. I would instead first work on a few articles but mainly work on comments on others and general interaction to grow your following and build your reputation. From there you can start expanding into blogging as a income source on hive.
Don't expect huge votes right away. A introduction post goes a long way but you should seriously think about what you want to include in it as your one introduction post is like going on a first date, first impressions matter!
Overall
Think of hive as a blockchain to call home. It's a place you're going to spend a large amount of your day on and also earning from and contributing to. Focus on your reputation, building community and interacting with others. There's communities for gardening, pets, homesteading, gaming, finances and so much more. Learn about the chain and cast in your vote. It's a rather large community effort for helping hive grow and you're a fundamental part of that.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
https://leofinance.io/threads/@bitcoinflood/re-leothreads-23pnrp7pk
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people ( @bitcoinflood ) sharing the post on LeoThreads,LikeTu,dBuzz.
When I got in a month ago I miss that part of the introduction post, did one a few days and even my first post had no format to nothing, someone told me source your images and I didnt what was it about so I have been thinking to make a Hive landing page and put together something like a guide from sing up, introduction post, few articles that I have bookmark like this one from users who have years into Hive and know the struggle at first so new users can refer to it, just a personal project that can be useful for me when I bring someone to Hive same for others
This post has been manually curated by @bhattg from Indiaunited community. Join us on our Discord Server.
Do you know that you can earn a passive income by delegating your Leo power to @india-leo account? We share 100 % of the curation rewards with the delegators.
100% of the rewards from this comment goes to the curator for their manual curation efforts. Please encourage the curator @bhattg by upvoting this comment and support the community by voting the posts made by @indiaunited.
Yay! 🤗
Your content has been boosted with Ecency Points, by @bitcoinflood.
Use Ecency daily to boost your growth on platform!
Support Ecency
Vote for new Proposal
Delegate HP and earn more
Going on a first date is a good way of looking at it lol. I never did one myself as didn't even know back then it was part of the plan.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
The last one is indeed crucial! Funny enough when I started I didn’t publish a post for like 6 weeks I didn’t know what to say lol but I sure as hell commented on dozens of posts and found some decent friends, some of which I still talk to today!
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
lets get this thing growing!
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
I love the part you said as a newbie, the first thing is to be familiar with the chain, engage through comments and then, you can now start making your blog.
A lot of newbies wouldn't do that especially those ones who only get involved because of the money; these people won't grow unless they change their mindset.
Truly, everyone here began with the mindset of money money money, but along the line, some stood and are still standing because of the potential it offers which those with the idea of coming for the money loses a lot.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
Like you, I think that the most important thing to grow in Hive is, more than frequently writing articles, frequently interacting with other people's posts (commenting and voting on them). Therefore, I also believe that the foundation of success in Hive is building a reputation and an audience effectively.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
Thank you so much for this.
I didn't know the role of a witness until now
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people( @ibbtammy ) sharing the post on Twitter as long as they are registered with @poshtoken. Sign up at https://hiveposh.com.