The whole world is watching the ongoing invasion of Ukraine and its related tragedies. People are sharing footage of battles in the cities, videos of themselves and their children taking cover in bunkers or within their homes, or stories of Ukrainian refugees escaping to nearby countries.
Needless to say, it’s a deep tragedy as well as a crucial moment in our history that will significantly impact our future regardless of the outcome. One thing, however, is certain: There are now millions of people who need help, and Hive has several ways of contributing.
The solutions on Hive
The situation in Ukraine shows the fragility and vurnerability of so much of our modern day infrastructure. Voices looking to express the realities on the ground can be cut off or censored by occupants or oppressive authorities aiming to maintain control of a narrative. People's savings may suddenly become unaccessible, depreciate rapidly, or be left behind when escaping danger. Unfortanely, those who suffer the most are often the individuals who are the least involved.
Hive as a blockchain can provide tools of unparalleled value to situations like this, for many reasons and at many levels:
- It provides a censorship-resistant publishing platform where anyone can share their stories and document what they see happening.
- It can provide financial benefits and support to those in need who shares experiences that the rest wants to support.
- It provides an integrated store of value with the option of saving in a relatively stable while still decentralized currency ideal for people who need both safety and immutability as well as relative price stability.
If Hive does not have something useful to offer for Ukrainian civilians or refugees, then what does it have to offer?
We need to be part of the solution to the current crisis, and in doing so, we can make the best demonstration yet of the power and value of our blockchain. By having a Ukrainian community for Ukrainians to share what is going on, receive support from the global community, and also have a safe store of value and/or regain financial means, we can make a difference.
My suggestion
Let’s get organised and start working to build, grow and promote a Ukrainian community with the same level of passion, urgency and efficiency that we did two years ago during the Tron-take-over. For instance, I think a simple goal could be to attract at least 1000 new members within a week, something I believe would be highly doable and even a low target given the current atmosphere.
But beyond that, I would like to see us attack the problem with the simple goal of seeing how we can provide the best tool possible for the people we believe can benefit from it the most.
What we need
- Onboarders and marketers willing to reach out directly to Ukrainians on social platforms like Twitter etc and introduce Hive as an additional platform where they should share their experience in addition to offer support in setting up an account and getting started.
- "Helpers" willing to be available in various chats, comments or forums (like bee.chat, discord, telegram, etc) to provide answers to the many common questions that always pop up.
- Curators to help vet and support content that is published.
- Promoters to help share good Hive-posts made by users on social media by dropping them in relevant Twitter threads or otherwise helping posts on Hive go viral and attract more attention. Also reach out to crypto-media outlets to let them know that Hive is demonstrating how crypto and blockchain can be used for good, which will be guaranteed to get us good media attention if we're growing a decent community fast.
- Developers willing to listen to the expressed need of new community members of what added tools and integration could serve them better or make the many procesess of onboarding and integration work better.
I am sure that many of you are spending significant time already following the development and news from Ukraine, or discussing the topic with people on Twitter, etc. I suggest that we spend that time dedicated on being part of the solution to the people whose individual freedoms are being crushed one way or the other, doing something good both for them and for Hive in the process.
An opportunity for Hive to shine
While the main objective should of course be to offer impactful help to individuals who need freedom and support more than ever, I also believe that there's nothing we can do to add value to Hive right now than to succeed with this.
An effort like this could attract a significant amount of new users, gain worldwide attention to our platform and its benefits, help us rapidly improve our dapps, demonstrate our value proposition as a blockchain and help propel communities as a feature.
I sincerely doubt that there are many people on Hive with more useful contributions that they can make towards growing our platform and mission. Thus, I hope there are many who will want to help make this idea, or some iteration of it if people have some added feedback. I would first love to hear in the comments what people think, what considerations should be made, how we could best organise an effort, and to what extent you the community would like to get involved. Then, I'm ready to set aside most of my time to work towards making it happen. This is a special time in all of our lives, and also the best opportunity Hive has ever had to showcase its value and usefulness.
Or what do you think?
Hello! As a Ukrainian, I thank you very much for your attention to our war and for your help 🙏. I don't know exactly how I can join, as I am an ordinary person, but I try to write a summary every day about what happened in Ukraine during the day. My text is the only tool I have so far. I stayed in Ukraine, in Kyiv, and I am experiencing this war with all Ukrainians. 🙁
If this will only bring together the names of Ukrainian Hivers, to make it easier for us to follow you and get information/show support, that's more than there is now. We're all ordinary people, feeling helpless - but if reading posts and giving votes is the only thing I can do, I'll do that.
I will definitely write when I have the opportunity to do so. Sometimes we hide in a shelter, there is no internet, but on a calmer day, without an air alarm, we are at home ... Thank you for your support.
Ukraine already has a hive its called https://golos.id
you are all literaly truying to puish the WIKILEAKS HIVE CIA NATO agenda like i warned everyone about
Hive is NOT for ukraine its for Russia, Ukraine EU and china and usa its for the world
what next, downvoting all russians on hive?
hah fucking NATO globo frederikka acting in his own european interests
you euiropeans start all the wars all the klaus schawbs all the illuminati nmesses
let russia have its shit back sto9p supporting AZOV nazis
UKRAINISTANIS, DISAVOW THE NAZIS in your ARMY of YOU are CANCELLED by TWITTER you racists
Golos is a dead project for ages
it has everything steem or hive has, or the ability to build what we have with a lil funding and copy us lol
how can it loose?
and its russian and thats all that matters to an authorityarian russian state dude
they will use some family friendly pro conservative values russian golos science math education blocckhain for all russian schools
withr ussian state backing and golos backed by actual state backed resources like gas and free gas gift cards alone golos becomes gas voice lol and peopel all have to buy gas from gas stations and so golos becomes super valuable if backed by gazprom
i mean what else is putin gonna do
golos is uniquley russian and has all these russian people holding the tokens it proved a point
dont u think the price of a project doesnt matter really? its other hidden metrics
usa will use hive and nato countries Telos
russia may also just use telos lol look at twitter for telosrussia!
telos governance for russia = really healthy version of the leninist dream of intelectualist autocracy technocracy lol with UBI for all haha
IF YOU WANt to end teh war the world must decentralize the russian economy and thus its oligarch and state government system
"Golos.id" is a project created by russians for russian speaker world! So there were many Ukrainians who wrote in Russian. There has been a lot of propaganda and hatred against Ukraine for a long time. And now there is a lot of fake and distorted information published there.
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Thank you, it's very nice to see how the whole world woke up and began to express support for the Ukrainian people!
i dont support nazis
Look at the season in the photo, look at the clothes that have not been used since 2014, look at the equipment. This photo is at least 6-8 years old, despite the fact that my knowledge of Photoshop is quite enough to replace any of the floats with a photo of Putin, who has already violated a lot of HUMAN restrictions by shooting civilians, women and children.
There is a Ukranian Badge but the owner hasn't updated it recently i'm trying to reach out to get him to add to it or to give the keys for the account to someone else to use or even posting authority
https://peakd.com/b/badge-101121
Sounds good! You know where you can DM me if you get response
i think ill create some swastika azov badges to expose you all as cia agents for nato lol i told u all about wikileaks vault 7 and 8
The inside of your head must be a chaotic place...
Great initiative. My first concern is how good Internet access there could be in this moment in the regions on conflict. We all remember the conversation in Twitter about starlink being activated, but the distribución of the required infrastructure would not be fast or uniform among the population.
Lucky enough it looks like the Internet network in Ukraine could have a strong topology amd infrastructure that could keep it alive for long -but maybe not stable-, and it looks like there are several companies providing Internet connection. The fact that we keep seeing videos of the conflict makes me feel more confident in that the normal ukrainians may be having some kind of access to the internet.
In this moment it looks like Rusia is blocking some centralized social networks on their own territory , a decentralised technology can for sure make a difference if this censorship reaches the Ukrainian territory.
Good points regarding internet connectivity! But I think we'll just have to hope that it will remain available and provide tools and support to those who do have access.
After all, helping some is better than none, right?
Absolutely agree, and we can see some ukrainian hivers that keep posting, which can give us a lot of hope for the moment.
Bro how is a Jewish Person supposed to Support the fucking nazi ukrainians bro
what teh actual fuck is wrong with you Frederika supporting actual nazis, well u are nordic
ukraine invaded iraq in 2003 too 7000 troops
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Everyone should want peace and we need Russians around the world more than ever to be part of a global community who desire a peaceful outcome for all
Awesome idea! I support anything that can help the people of Ukraine in their heroic efforts. Thanks for coming up with this.
I´m currently running a little fundraising initiative myself: https://hive.blog/hive-174578/@phortun/staying-with-ukraine-my-fundraising-post
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Thank you for helping bring attention to the post and bringing people together😊
You're welcome @fredrikaa. Thank you for writing this post and sharing this (what I think is a fabulous and kind) idea.
Didn't that boss man mentioned some nukes...?
yeah they still have some hidden away but their suitcase nukes and theyre gonna use azov terrorists to sneak into russia and try to blow up russian cities with them... watch..... u allf ucked up supooirting ukrainian nazis im sick of this shit
russia has ever right to defend itself from ACTUAL NAZIS flying the swastika flag
THATS LIKE FUCKING ARAB ARMIES USING SWASTIKAS MARCHING ON ISRAEL
you would all suppoort israel lol but not russia
Yes, I agree, the whole thing is super sus, they had issues years back and now suddenly this whole thing got traction. That's why I was asking in one another blog why now.
This is a welcome idea, we really need to help Ukraine ,I trying my own best here to make sure that a whole world should look into this matter.
I would encourage you to also spend some time with Ukrainians you see on other social medias than Hive telling them to go visit Hive.blog and the Ukrainian community here!
Loved the idea, we can support Ukrainian writers more this way, every little thing counts!
Thanks! Yes we should! But we should also work tirelessly to bring more people here who have stores to tell.
Ukrainians are fucking nazis , and ive been following this since 2014 talking to troops on both sides over instagram for almost a decade, and it was 100% Obama and nato that supported actual nazis and youre all funding nazis sending ukraine money
any Jewish people in here? How do you not have a problem with actual swastikas on parade in the regular ukraine army? WTF
Thinks this is a brilliant idea, just hope that the Ukranians actually can access internet and share their struggles
This is really very great development! I strongly agree with your opinion on this.
Thanks for sharing this great post with love from @hardaeborla and I hope you have a great day ahead 💕❤️💕
Good place for start to list Ukrainian Hivers might be Team Ukraine community on Hive.
yes it is great and we all are lover of peace love , hive community is with love peace, urkrain hive is with you
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I believe this is a wonderful idea! I hope that this helps them alot!
Nice work keep it up
This is a great initiative, helping Ukrainians through this platform is a smart move. hoping a lot of people in Hive will reach out to your project to help our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Godbless
Great idea ! Much love and support from France !
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There is NEVER room for open war like this. We all need to speak out and take action and hold ALL accountable for allowing this to happen in the first place there are faults on all sides but people and most of all children should never have to pay the ultimate price because of that.
This is a great initiative. Maybe we can create a community for all survivors and focus currently on what's happening in Ukraine.
I could start one if no one has done that yet. The focus will be on the survivors and how to support them.
Let's go!
when its a geopolitical war its always important to have a network like hive, or previously as used in Egypt the TOR network was used by independent journalists to get their stories out to the world.
I'm from Romania, i've been at the border,lots of women and children, i've tried to help as much as i could with food and blankets, but man let me tell, you thousands of people try to cross the border, it's a real drama!
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Good idea. I opening eyes to Ukraine community. I want help with my tipu curate.Peace🇺🇦🇵🇱
SWASTIKAS march on israel? Oh israel has a right to defend itself how dare those nazis use that imagery
Swastikas march on Russia and literaly start killing russians like ww2 trauma, and you dont think they have a right to defend themselves BECAUSE YOU are ignorant of the WAR they started in 2014 INVADING parts of russia ?
if israel had arabs marching on their borders FLYING SWASTIKA FLAGS you would say they have every ri9ght to defend themselves in the news
youre all so fucking mind controlled by your TV
first covid scam and u all got vaxxed now ur unde rmind control by the TV to go to war
fuck you all for this , fuck u all