I said I won't bother doing a monthly Valueplan collation anymore and just focus on every 6 months as we see more of a broader picture on who is receiving the "Make A Wish Foundation" funding. Because I created such a hullaballo in 2025 but just looking at the details, nothing really has changed. The one thing stands out is people who are receiving funding are doing it under generic names now. I had to laugh at @upb2b,@lb2b, and @sb2b all new wallets and receiving funding. Some things never change.
Obviously because of the sheer cost of motor sport , the rally car drivers are way ahead in the number 1 spot receiving a total of 233,779.94 Hive so far this year for their participation in the WRC which we are told has viewership figures rivalling the last season of Game of Thrones. It was handy that I could confirm my figures on the Valueplan website created by @spiritsurge which is pretty good actually. You can find the up to date figures here but I will go into them in more detail in my next post. For this post I always like to focus on the number 1 ranked user receiving the Hive Communities funds. Lets have a look at their payouts since the start of the year.
Now I don't doubt here that the money is being ploughed into the car. This project I believe is a project of passion and love and this is why I have a problem with it. I want to be an astronaut!! Do you think the Hive blockchain will fund an exhibition for me on Bluemotion?? It is a vast amount of funding for the Hive Community to be investing in. I made a post at the end of last year not questioning the finances but more questioning were we any good at rally driving? And the results spoke for themselves. The car finished last in most races. You can view my findings here How is the rally car doing? .
In 2025 it looks like we competed in the Monte Carlo race in January where the rally car driver was celebratory in his post for finishing a solid 7th in his class. I was actually delighted for him because they were down on their luck in 2024 until I had a little gander at the WRC results.
If they finished 8th I would have indeed told the lads to give up the dream.
Source
Anyway dust yourself on and onto the next one. Slow and steady wins the race. The WRC went to Sweden , then Kenya, the Canaries and Portugal and our drivers chose the Italian rally to make a comeback but due to mechanical failure they did not finish so their bad luck continues. It's tough when they don't finish because we don't hear any updates from them. Not to worry I'm sure the Hive Community will cough up another quarter of a million Hive over the next 6 months. So two rallies down and $68,300.65 USD spent on them. I have not included funding from Dec 2024 as this is allocated to that financial period so Monte Carlo probably cost more.
Now most of the rally car posts are comments from the usual crustys saying how beautiful the rally car is and comments such as "I can't believe we have a rally car??" But nobody is looking in under the hood so to speak. It is beautiful. It does look good in mid air. But the truth is we don't have an exit strategy. And this is the case for many of the legacy projects being funded and its hungrier they are getting. Receive 1k this year and next year why not ask for a raise. I do that at work so why not ask for more for "Volunteering" doing a Hive project? Its normal
Just a question as a sponsor. Is finishing so low affecting the credibility of our extremely fast blockchain that does not break down much compared to other blockchains. One would wonder. "There she goes again , breaking down. Their blockchain must be shite as well!!!" was overheard on the hills of Sardinia. But what's the answer to getting better. Give them more funding?? Black hole of Calcutta alert.
I was looking at the prize money in the Tour De France today. I looked the Irish guy who won a stage on the Tour and finished 9th overall. He received $20,000 for winning a stage in the most grueling race in the world. His team earned $75,000 from the whole tour. @victorwallet has received $16,495 this year so far so pedal biking in South America. Ben !! What are you doing with your life?? Join the Hive Blockchain you wally!!!! You could be a millionaire in a few years!! Yes you can skim funds off the top , just don't mention it!! Call yourself @benb2b and away you go!!
Didn't finish? They barely fucking started. Broke down on Stage2. End of rally. Complete and utterly waste of cash. Now they're spending 50 grand usd on a Wrestling fan event in a community centre in a village in the middle of nowhere in the USA. This is in addition to the 250k a quarter for valueplan. What makes me laugh is hardly any of the recipients even bother to post regularly.
A complete bad joke and still run with zero transparency.
Well @nathan007 ,il have you know there is a massive wrestling cabal here on Hive. Constantly Swanning around in their speedos with string dangling from their arms shouting Woooooooo at people. Fake hitting people . Jumping from the edge of wardrobes pinning their opponents to the squared circle . I’d say the wrestling community is well over 100 thousand on Hive. Take it back! Or the Hulkamania will commmmmmeeeeee downnnnnnn on youuuuuuuuuuuu.
LOL. The Hulk will live on, thanks to Hive.
Ask nicely and we'll no doubt sponsor his funeral...
Drain the swamp!
MHGA 😃😃😃
There's a swamp? Lol
Like underwear in hundred degree weather with a dew point in the 80's/90's.
@bozz the funding would be better spent giving 50k hive to you and the 5 to 10 other guys and gals that are here every day posting for better or for worse . At least you would use it on curation and not use it as a salary . I’d vote for that .
Maybe one day I will get there. I feel like my voting is pretty good, but I need to continue to spread it around a bit more. I wish there was a way to track how many people signed up for HIVE because they saw the rally car in a race. I mean I know it's zero, but still. It would be nice to have data to point to.
Well I beg to differ @bozz but the rally car community has not just 0 but 6 active users . 1 of them being the driver of course. The wing man must be the other. In all there are 352 users that signed up to the community. Judging around the money that has been spent on the rally car community. You are talking about the most expensive onboarding to any platform ever .
Dang, that's way more than my grilling and smoking community has. I feel so inferior now!
Not @cryptoandcoffee though. He would get a big head
These meme probably also rings true about some of the crypto-conventions, yes?
You are dead right . I work in an industry where I could attend and win and award every night if I want . Just by entering and paying for a table at a “prestigious” event. It’s a big money racket.
Corpo-participation awards - the only people that make money from it are the venues that hold the functions and the esteemed "bodies" that "arrange" the prize giving ceremonies.
Its a farce that consumers and press releases actually give those things the light of day and an "air" of authority.
I wish it was the carbon dioxide of authority, instead.
LMFAO great gags.. In all fairness, the car does look great. Hive looking more like Blurt though.
Now I'm sure if you put a proposal forward, Valueplan would be happy to fund it !LOLZ
Imagine all those eyes on the Hive rocket! Time to go to the mooooooon?
I’d post about , bring a few Hive bracelets for the crew , take pictures of the usual banquet where other Hive users will turn up to (even in space). Il write and epic I’m in space post and get the usual $7, the majority of it being steembasicincome. 🤣🤣🤣 I’d have bezos on board however. Put the cat among the pigeons .
Wow wow wow, now just you calm down right there!
If, no sorry, when you recieve funding I hope not to hear from you until you need funds for next years trip, then you can maybe show us a nice picture of a hive sticker on the rocket or something!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. I won’t post for pittance for at least a year. There shall be enough milk skimmed off the top to take a well earned break until the Mars trip .
Don't forget to pack a posie to pose with. I hear all the hot astrobabes are doing that now. I would rather see Hive funding a rocket than what is being funded. If we could drop a communications satellite or 20 we could actually create a physical network that would increase our censorship resistance, because the UK, Oz, and Canada couldn't require our Crown subject users to submit selfies to read our blogs.
The rally car is a big no no for myself and I just wish everyone could see this is not benefitting anyone, but whose hobby it is to drive it. Just think how much the blockchain would have splashed out if we did this for 5 years and had no benefit at all. This is all HIVE hitting the exchanges and is a disgrace.
Yeah it’s not helping the price .
The good thing about HIVE is that you can literally vote with your wallet. I just need a bigger one :)
It needs to be a very big wallet . do I want/ have the funds to invest a half a million dollars to take the rally car off the table.
Well you see, the solution is thus:
Create a new DHF proposal with the intent to build "contrarian logic" into the DHF, with yourself as the beneficiary. When it is funded, you take the HBD, convert it to HIVE,and power up.
Then you create a recursive contrarian, contrarian logic proposal to offset the original contrarian logic proposal. Through a nested set of offshore escrow accounts, you use the power invested in you by the DHF to support the return proposal and your own proposals exclusively, thereby centralising power in the DHF, and then funding your own Tour De France, or perhaps a RC Rally Car, or maybe an entry into the FIA World Endurance Challenge racing series, which is more $$$$$$ than a WRC to manage, properly.
I like motorsport, I really do.
But there's a quote about motorport. The easiest way to make a million dollars in motorsport is to start with ten million dollars.
🤣🤣🤣 . Jesus. True that . You reek of intelligence. It’s dripping off you . Is there a newsletter I can sign up for?
Only poorly made paper planes, unfunded by the DHF.
Bang... and here we go. Honestly, these are probably the only posts I actually read properly. But to tell the truth, I don’t know whether to laugh (because the way you present it is excellent), or cry (because this is the harsh reality of someone living their dream at the expense of the entire blockchain). Either way, I’ve got to say, I missed this, and I believe a few other members did too, so I’m glad this column is back. In any case, shoot for the stars like an astronaut, you have my full support.
Cheers @speko . You still in Ireland. We must go for pints . Yeah it’s mad carry on . I’m having second thoughts on the astronaut idea. 🤣. The Valueplan gang would booby trap the rocket . It will be another Columbia disaster.
Still in Ireland, actually, we just got back from a holiday. But after living here for 20 years, I’d probably start calling Ireland my home as well.
I'm not really into beer, but I’d definitely be up for meeting in person and chatting about a few things.
I've been wanting a new camera lately. Mine's getting old.
Should I throw my savings all on red or create a proposal on here?
My advice is to create a proposal , get the funding then throw it all on red @namiks . Thank me later ! 😃😃 worst that can happen is you will still have your savings.
We need to get you in space, stat!!
Blaunchy!
🤣🤣🤣 I watched “First Man” . There’s fuckinh noise first of all . If you told me you were putting the three hottest super models up there with me , I still wouldn’t go up . Astronaut was a bad choice right there. I did a fib. I’m not even a great flyer.
But the jumpsuits, think of the jumpsuit! You could keep it and drink forever free in the pub with it on 😀😀
Imagine going for a piss . I’d have to take the whole thing off. I would then be compelled to put on the space helmet and then proceed to have the slash in the urinal. Anyone walking into the jacks will be treated with the usual serious nod as if this was normal. 🤣🤣🤣
Glad you back - we need those posts. I always think that we should look for upcoming talents that have possibilities of achieve big success in the upcoming years - their future success is our success - or perhaps we should look for NICHE sports like - Tchoukball , Wife-Carrying, Novuss, Ultimate Frisbee or Footgolf - something that we can spend only a little bit as the entry level is so low and any amount sacrifice elevate their niche.
You also catch well narrative part and catch phrases that I've been observing for a while - 6th in their category , 200k New users , Winning National Competition , Global.... I'm sure you are fastest human on the planet in your category.
I would like to add that there is a plug-in proposal section on the site here. So if any of you do have an idea that will bring people to the hive, then please request it through the plugin proposal section. I am sure @guiltyparties / @valueplan will be more than willing to entertain such projects based on their merits.
There is also a whole section dedicated to user retention stats for hive here
as well as other sections (some of which are still in the works)
Also, thanks for the shoutout @blanchy.
@spiritsurge any chance you could put the human names for the projects up as well. This ubtb, sb2b and lb2b just look as dodgy as a 4 pound note . Are they the same person ? For transparency purposes should Valueplan name the actual people who are applying for this finding . Take Finfarm and finfarm backup . Are these blackheart??