Greetings, friends!
This post will be about my up-to-date advice to new people on the Hive blockchain as well as me sharing what of it I myself am actually able to follow through.
In other words...
How I Manage My Account
and
How I Try To Behave
It comes as a response to interesting new people joining Hive through the most active Bulgarian community which is called...wait for it...Bulgaria...and the efforts of @iliyan90 in specific.
A piece of a conversation with one of the promising new Hive users:
I shall explain these concepts and more below.
I am doing in English because I want this to be useful to other people as well and because I believe this is the way to go about the social side of Hive — a network where you can actually connect to people all around the world unlike...unwanted but persistent national filters...somewhere else.
Well, writing this post within the community is kind of filtering it, too. There are always filters. All your tags are filters, after all.
Anyway, if you want something explained in Bulgarian, leave me a comment in Bulgarian below and I shall reply accordingly, ръйш ли...
And...
...if you don't have the time to read but you'd like to know what do to in the beginning...
go and find it near the end of this article.
Some explanation and examples of basic stuff now...
Account Management
With your Hive account you receive access to the Hive blockchain which is the underlying layer. There are potentially endless User Interfaces to access the blogging layer of Hive and peakd.com is my choice when posting from PC or laptop but I also use hive.blog sometimes. As a backup plan or when following default hive.blog links. Sometimes, a link wouldn't open properly on one of them and you can substitute it with the other within your browser's URL window.
Peakd.com is better suited for Communities. Some communities have their own interface, too. Like leofinance.io which would only show my posts and interactions made within that community.
Now, as in a game with various Character traits, your account has various stats which you would do well to monitor. https://hiveworld.app/?account=yourusernamehere is a convenient one, and so is https://hiveblocks.com/@yourusernamehere. The latter needs manual refresh of the page.
The most important stat is your Resource Credits. Also, the most difficult one to understand. It's your stamina or "mana" (a word used in some games for your magical energy or something like that). It's how much you can interact with the blockchain without getting tired. It recharges at a rate of about 20% of your whole Hive Power (oops, maybe that is your most important stat) per day. In the beginning, you might drain your RC down to 0 and you might wonder what happened. You will be like frozen before you can interact again. But powering up some Hive would resolve this problem. It will increase your total capacity and it will also add the fresh Hive Power (that HP you will see in the examples below) in the form of already recharged Resource Credits.
A new account comes with almost nothing and somebody would delegate some temporary Hive Power to them so that they can interact. Yeah, a delegation from a person who would help you will also resolve your drained RC problem immediately.
This is how a new account looks:
You can wait for your posts to pay out which will automatically add some of your gains as available HP and you will also gain some liquid Hive which you could either use to pay for something/trade/transfer to somebody or you could Power Up (more about Powering Up and Hive Power in a minute).
And this is how my stats look in comparison to a new account:
The green bar is misleading and I will explain why. It is because I have used a huge amount of RC in order to claim a new free account ticket. Yeah, you can do that once per a couple of days once you have somewhere about 5 000 HP or more. It drained about 60 % of my RC and I needed 3 days to recharge those.
But the actual numbers...
that tell the story are:
With my current stake of 7362 HP, I have trillions of mana. That's 14 digits.
When I started writing this example I had 10,474,382,326,224 available. Let me check again. 10,506,325,563,190. That's 100 billion more in a matter of minutes.
My recharge rate is 1473 units (Megavests they are called, but let's not go there quite yet) per day
A new account with 24 (delegated) HP has about
50,721,095,981
or 50 billion total, so they recharge up to my current level in a matter of ten days of waiting.
The recharge rate is 5.3 per day.
These differences, and more, come from our respective Hive Power.
Hive power is the amount of long-term deposited Hive tokens that you have on your account. If you would like to make them liquid and transferable again, you would have to wait for 13 weeks in total. 1 week for a 1/13 part of the amount that you have started powering down. You basically do that when you need the Hive for other purposes, be it feeding yourself or your family, or reinvesting it somewhere else. It's often frowned upon but it's your choice only and you are solely responsible for your decisions.
But here's the best part — What You Gain By Having Lots Of Hive Power
Except for immense amounts of RC (If I were only to post and comment, make transactions other than claiming the uberexpensive in terms of RC new accounts, I wouldn't be able to drop below 99% no matter how fast I typed and spammed the network. That's because I have enough HP to afford that).
So, except for that,
Your Vote Value Changes
My vote at 7000 and more HP currently gives me the ability to distribute about 32 cents per day or 3.2 cents per vote.
There is this important thing called
Curation Rewards
which means you get a percentage of all the votes you cast back as a reward for supporting content that you like.
That's right, on Hive you gain rewards for your posts AND for upvoting the posts of others. The more your vote weighs, the more you gain in return:
Basically, me and the author of the post/comment will split the sum you see in blue near the top right.
We cannot do this indefinitely because one has this
Voting Power
stat that means about 10 votes at 100% strength per day drain it down to 80 % and it only recharges 20 % per day. I wouldn't drain it a lot below that because at lower percents your vote also weighs less.
Voting strength is different from Voting Power. It means you choose what % to apply when you vote at a certain voting Power. I can cast a vote of 100 % at VP 96 or I can cast a vote of 30 % or 10 % or 1 % or whatever at VP 96. VP is how much of your daily rechargeable power you have drained. It drains slower if you can cast smaller votes but I prefer fewer large votes. So that I can support content creators to the maximum. I can support 10 creators with 100% votes (0.030 USD) per day or I can support 100 creators with 10 % votes (0.003).
And I am not the greatest supporter around here ;) There are people whose votes weigh many USDs each because they have invested a lot of time or money in the system.
Please, don't get discourage when you see 0.000 as a value of your own votes in the beginning. First, these are not 0.00000000000, they might be 0.0001 or something now but in the beginning you mostly gain through making good posts and less (almost nothing) through voting.
And there are other ways of which I shall tell you below, so continue reading.
These numbers, anyway, are recalculated in USD. It's much more profitable if you think in terms of Hive which could one day be worth much more. When I joined back in 2018, a 1 USD payout on my posts gave me ten times less of the crypto token because that token had a higher price. Now, a 1 USD payout gives me about 10 times more of the crypto token.
This makes it a great time to accumulate Hive.
Either by posting good content or by just buying it on the exchanges. The latter being risky in terms of money, the former being risky in terms of time...
If the only thing you value here is currency.
And about 6-7-8000 USD later I am here to tell you that the knowledge gained and the change of views were much more important than those few 6-7-8 thousands of USDs worth.
Because you learn to invest in the future...or spend it on candy.
Once again — your choice, your responsibility. I, for example, chose to spend some of my crypto in order to have a financially comfortable 2020 for my family which deserved every bit of it.
So I am not sorry for my Bitcoin Pizza moments. I wrote more about how I managed my funds and what my goals are here in this post called Hive Efforts, Goals, Returns — A 9 Month Recap
Because eventually, I managed to increase the flow of fresh Hive into my wallet.
The Bonus Hive You Can Earn
Games
Once you have accumulated some Hive you can invest it in various projects. And some of them are games. As I wrote in the post that I linked above (I don't know if you read it, probably 10 % of you did and 10 % of my average 3 readers is 0.3 readers so Valhallelujah to that), the 7000 HP in my wallet is just a fraction of my Hive potential. I have about 16 000 more Hive worth of Second Layer tokens called NFT and stored on hive-engine.com invested in the dCity Game and it provides about 100 fresh Hive worth of tokens to me...daily. The risk is, those are centralized projects. The decentralized First Layer network that is the Hive blockchain is more secure in a way. But since nothing is secure in this life, what the hell...
And while that game needed some initial investment, there are other you can start with nothing.
One of those is a click-often type of game called Rising Star and this is my reference link that provides some small amount of bonus to my account while the referred person loses nothing. If you have those type of social skills, you can gain crypto by referring people to various projects.
Some more links of mine coming down the line ;)
Like my ref link to the exchange I use, Bittrex and the Code in case you need it. There you can trade Hive for USD or Bitcoin if you want to do so. Their Customer Support has been perfect in my case, they are/were (last I checked) based in Lichtenstein and the funds transfers came from a trust in the US.
Just make regular checks of their Hive Wallet status because it is often under maintenance and funds get slowed down.
Art
My NFTshowroom ref link. This is a gallery where you can upload limited edition digital art prints for sale. It costs a bit of Hive to list anything, though. If people buy, you get your profit. If your art is not what they would buy...well, it's not. I sometimes sell things there successfully and generally they bring me enough to pay for the rest of them but I don't have the time to create as many artworks as I would like to. Nor am I that skilled. I am an amateur, after all.
And this be My Gallery.
My wife @silver.art, she's the professional artist in the family. And this is Her Gallery. You can also follow her account for posts about new paintings that she shows around here.
What you should know from the start:
Lots of that already exists in the [FAQ] section of hive.blog and curious people should read it all at some point. What I give you here is my resume and interpretation of some of the basic facts and some of the beliefs of the Hive community.
Try to engage in a meaningful manner! Give people real feedback, try to find rel discussion, avoid spam and anything that looks like abuse of the system. The reward pool is everybody's until distributed, so people do not approve of tactics meant to take away from it for low-effort content. So, your real option is to like what you're creating and put some heart into it. That will eventually get you long-term effects. Make your progress socializing.
That means one should also read others'work and learn from them. The more you read, the easier it becomes to come up with ideas about conversations yourself. Some of my comments are way longer than
many people's posts. Which does not mean I am always like that.
Don't forget you have to be yourself ;)
Asking for votes or followers can get you in trouble. It won't have nice results, anyway. Avoid follow-for-follow, etc. practices. Begging for money not cool. Asking for knowledge — now, that's respectable.
In general, don't focus on rewards that much. They are the promised side-effect of what you were doing elsewhere, anyway.
Find friendship, instead. Rewards will follow on their own.
Try this proportion for your first month:
200/100/50/20
Upvote various posts 200 times
Leave genuine comments 100 times
Find and Follow 50 people whom you like to read/watch.
Post your own articles 20 times
More or less. Then, repeat next month ;)
Also, don't forget you can do it without actually counting. It's just a nice guideline.
Make it all a game for you, something that brings you pleasure and useful knowledge.
Don't forget you have to live and enjoy your life and relationships ;)
Go to the Communities function of peakd.com and look for some which might suit your interests
For example, I use
OnChainArt or Sketchbook for paintings and drawings;
WorldBuilding for role playing games;
BlackAndWhite, Photofeed for photography;
TravelFeed or UrbanExploration for trave, HaveYouBeenHere, too;
LeoFinance for economics;
TheInkwell or FreeWriters for writing;
HiveGaming for games,
etc.
The chat service that's quite well integrated with Hive is Discord. Most communities have their own Discord servers and there are people who would often help. Also, it's used for private messages. The blockchain itself is not exactly about privacy.
It's attention based economy embodied!
So, thank you for your attention! Comments and questions are most welcome!
Yours,
Manol
i almost understood what you wrote in that screenshot :D
nice explanation, but i bet is a bit overwhelming for new users, i know how i felt 3 years ago. my idea is to go with own your account don't rent it, and after that maybe refer to your post :D
Aye, that concept was (fortunately for me) already done in a video by @iliyan90 who successfully invited a bunch of promising new members who might thrive here if they so choose. So I took it as my job to delve into some technicalities.
Appreciate it!
Namaste 🙏
Всеки който има English да погледне този Пост.
Hive on ;)
@cryptospa @mushanov @vesytz @outlinez @manoldonchev @arena10 @vasilstefanov @selena14 @beatrix070707 @lyubo19 @titofit @motomojo @laracrofttt @alicewonderyoga @ivangeevo @tbabachev @jizel.gencheva @vaniy @borislavzlatanov @harmony.art @sneji79
@manoldochev ако и на бг го напишеш ще го използваме;)
@tipu curate
Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 0/22) Liquid rewards.
Има какво да се научи...
За новаци като мен всяка такава информация е доста полезна... 😁👏
Драко много голяма е плТформата takes time ;)
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Да да лека полека ще влезем в час... Рим не е построен за ден... 😁
Така е. Тук нещата са доста ускорени. Все пак е добре човек да се информира, да си почива, да наблюдава, да обмисля...но и да действа.
Оттук нататък тагът за самопредставяне няма да работи, той ви изстрелва нагоре само веднъж ;) После е добре според стандартите на общността тук и/или според опита ми...да правим публикации по конкретна тема в правилните общества и с правилните тагове. Снимки подбрани по-скоро от една сесия вместо такива от различни моменти в живота, текст, който пасва към тях и е нещо, което човек наистина иска да си разкаже...Като идва отвътре е лесно да изпишеш набързо някакъв обем от думи, което пък има значение за разни алгоритми. По-подробните описания по-често хващат окото на кураторите, т.е. тези, които ви представят и на други.
Човек да си върви според принципите, а то Вселената ще му даде задължително каквото тя си мисли, че му е правилно — перифразирам идеи на търпеливия император-философ Марк Аврелий. След него Рим почва да се хлъзга надолу ;) Щото на Вселената сигурно така ѝ е било правилно :)
Перфектно си го обяснил!
Аз имам въпрос: Как правиш текста да е центриран?
Пример:
С жена ти @silver.art явно сте доста АРТистично семейство :))
!BEER за теб и !Wine за нея
Човек, надяваме се малката да заспи спокойно и тогава...и бира, и каквото още дойде и за двамата. Но повечето вечери не се получава. Обещал съм ей ся да измия чиниите, щото съм много АРТ.
Но благодаря ти от сърце :)
!BEER
Центрирането става като отворя с:
< center >
(но без интервалите между триъгълните скоби и думата, т.е. всичко слято)
Тяло от текст, т.е. пасаж или цяла публикация тук
и затворя с:
< / center >
(без интервалите между триъгълните скоби, наклонената черта и думата, т.е. всичко слято.)
Може да направя отделна публикация за Mark Up стилизиране на постове, което се поддържа тук. Да покажа и други ефекти.
View or trade
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BEER.View or trade
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BEER.View or trade
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BEER.Супер инфо ;)
Страхотен пост братле. Браво! 🤍💚❤️
Благодаря. В общи линии, аз пък се опитвам да предупредя, че се искат качества, които трудно се намират в масата хора. Най-често самите ние сме тези, които се самоотсяват навън от дадена възможност.
Много полезен пост... 🙂
Браво 👏
Надявам се ;) Благодаря.
— Terran Battlecruiser commander, StarCraft.
@acidyo
As I was saying just doing my best to explain it to people the way I can and where I can.
Happily I have people coming around help me build the community.
Namaste 🙏
Well, the time to give some encouragement to new enthusiasts is now.
Then again, the time is always now.
Really useful information! Thanks