Good evening,
As I take time to reflect on my "project," and the reactions from others. I have received more positive feedback for this “project,” than anything I’ve ever done before; and I am talking anything I’ve ever done in my entire life.
I have been on HIVE since January 2022. I was pretty obscure until about 5 seconds ago. But then I started this project, and I powered up some HIVE, and now all of a sudden I’m interesting. All of a sudden, people want to listen to what I have to say. I’m getting a lot of positive feedback and I’m enjoying it.
I am an addict, everyone who knows me knows that. I’m pretty open about it because I believe talking about my problems makes me a better person.
I’ve made blog posts about quitting drinking, and right now, I really don’t want to talk about it. I’ve tried quitting drinking many times and have failed miserably many times. When I like something, I can’t stop, I get obsessed, I never let it go, I won’t let it go, I can’t, I love HIVE.
HIVE is beautiful. And I really do cherish the good times we had and I hope we can cherish more good times in the future. I really do love you guys and gals. I’m serious.
Many people on HIVE say HIVE is “dying,” even though many of these same people know it is technically impossible. The price can keep going down of course. HIVE is an inflationary token. If people don’t think HIVE is valuable, then they will sell it. This is how the world works. I believe HIVE is valuable so I am buying it. This in no way is financial advice and I cannot in good conscience recommend copying me in anyway. You can do what you want, you are a free person, and I have no control over you.
If things get better with HIVE, I might just keep buying HIVE because it shows a stakeholder can make a difference. This would show that having HP is more valuable than the liquid HIVE dollar value it’s associated with.
If things don’t get better with HIVE, I might keep DCAing into HIVE because it does at least it have an APR in terms of HIVE.
To me this seems like a good deal; right now anyways. Things can always change and I’m not promising anyone anything. And who knows? Maybe I’m crazy and this is a stupid idea. I’m not saying anyone should follow my lead.
There is only 1 option for me right now, in my mind, and that’s to buy more HIVE. Buying more HIVE and powering it up makes me more free. I’m less of a slave to the real world and I am more a Man that can live the way he wants to live.
All I want is to be free.
When I say this, and I am being RAW and unfiltered. Remember what people have told you about me, I’m unpredictable and I’m kinda crazy. I’m really weird and it’s hard to understand what I’m saying sometimes. It might be impossible to understand what I’m thinking?…… I really don’t know what’s going on in my head right now. 😘
I’m incredibly intense and have extreme reactions. Most of them I don’t regret. But when I do things that I do regret, I try to be a good person and I will tell you I’m sorry. I mean it. And a lot of times when I say I’m sorry, I cry. Because I really do care, and I want to be a good person.
I want to be a good person but I’m not always. We are capable of good and evil. If there was no evil, good would not even exist as a concept, and everything would just be sunshine and rainbows.
Our lives are not sunshine and rainbows. There are good times and bad. And sometimes our lives really suck. I wish I could help, but I can’t fix your life. I’m sorry. I really am sorry.
With my new project, there may be winners and losers, and that’s ok, that’s how life works sometimes. I believe there are people with more money than me, with less HIVE stake, that don’t want to buy HIVE because they think everything is hopeless, and the price will keep going down. They think HIVE is a bad investment right now. Maybe it is?
I think a lot of people today make the case that HIVE is a bad investment, even if they don’t realize they are doing it.
Maybe everything is hopeless? Maybe the price of HIVE will still keep going down? This is always an option.
But HIVE cannot die in my opinion. It’s impossible. And it’s not an option, not for me anyways.
Maybe my project is stupid? Maybe I’ll lose most my investment on a % basis when priced in dollars? Maybe I’ll lose “friends” over this?
But even if my project is stupid, even if I lose "friends," even if I can lose most of the dollar value of my investment, I will do my best to make my business successful; this is my only option.
If I have to ride HIVE to zero, I’ll do it. I’m not worried about it.
I owe it to my stakeholders to do my best, and get a return on my investment. If you own HP, you are a stakeholder of the ecosystem, and in theory, you will benefit from my “project” too. I can’t promise anything, it’s just a theory.
I have reached a new phase of my “project” where I am looking for proposals I need to support which will help increase the % chance that my investment is going to be successful.
My first supported proposal, besides the return proposal, is the HBD Stabilizer. The HBD Stabilizer is expensive. We pay for it. But unless someone wants to come up with a better idea, I’m pretty convinced we need it. And I want it to be successful.
If you think I’m wrong, tell me why I shouldn’t support this proposal. And if you think there are other proposals that will increase the % chance my investment is successful, please make your case in the comments below, and let’s have a good conversation. I want to support more proposals and I want to have good conversations with GOOD people.
I want to know what YOU think. Your opinion DOES matter to ME, regardless of your stake weight.
And even if I don’t agree with you, and even if I do something different than what YOU lobbied for, it will be on chain, YOU can always come back to this post and say, “see I told you so, you should have supported XYZ proposal.” And frankly, I want to have those experiences where I realize I made a mistake; it’s easier for me if it’s clearly documented on HIVE. This documentation process will make me a better investor in my opinion.
I have no problem getting egg on my face; that’s part of putting yourself out there. If something is easy to do, it’s usually not worth very much. Like, it’s really not.
There are always exceptions, but it’s the truth. If you do something easy, you can pay anyone to do it. No one is important to a function in these cases. Anyone who has worked for a business knows this.
A business is a conglomeration of processes that drive value. Most people who work for a business are cogs in that machine. It’s part of the deal. You agree to that when you accept the job. It’s usually articulated in some type of legal document you sign before you work somewhere.
Businesses should be nice to employees and treat them with respect but the company doesn’t NEED anything. Companies aren’t people, they don’t have feelings; even if you get mad at it. A company is just a thing made up by Man, which is validated with a legal document. Which, if you really think about it, a legal document is something made up by Man too.
(Man = human race in this context)
The things I have described are not the laws of nature but the laws of Man. Man is malleable. Man does change. Man is unpredictable. The passions of Man can drive them to some form of getting closer to god, or some form of getting closer to insanity. Doing bad things hurts YOUR soul and YOU cannot undo that process. You can only start a NEW process and try to do good things going forward. You will fail, because it’s hard, but if it was easy, it probably wouldn’t be worth doing anyways.
Rather than being a cog in a machine. You sometimes do have other options. Not everyone does, but some people do. If a company IS dependent on a specific person like YOU, and what YOU do is NOT easily repeatable, you can be expensive. You can get paid a lot of money. Because you provide a unique function and you have a lot of influence; and those things DO matter.
I want to be proven wrong, it makes me a better person. And if I make a bad trade, I’ll admit it, it makes me a better investor.
And as I’ve said before, in my first post of this “project,” I am a collector. I like to collect good conversations, and even if we disagree, if we have a good conversation, that is valuable to me; and it’s worth more than money, in my opinion. A good conversation is scarce and cannot be replicated, it is defined by that moment in time. And I’m a collector, I like to collect things that are unique. And most things in life that are extremely valuable, you can’t buy, or at least not easily.
I can’t buy a good conversation, you have to be willing to talk to me IN GOOD FAITH and I have to be willing to talk to you IN GOOD FAITH. We both have to invest OUR time, and time IS valuable. And….. we both have to be GOOD people.
So when you talk to me and we have a good conversation. It means a lot to me. It does matter. And I really do appreciate it. Even if you have made a mistakes in your life. Even if you have done evil things. You can at least be good when you are talking to me. I’m serious. Let’s have a good conversation.
Please tell me what proposal(s) YOU think I SHOULD support and I will think about it deeply. And if I don’t think it should be supported, I’ll tell you why. And that’s ok. I believe it will make US better people.
I want to talk. And I want to have a good conversation. To all of you that want to talk and do leave a comment, I can’t promise I will respond to everyone, I’ll do my best, but I can’t make any promises.
Even if I don’t respond to your comment, what you post on HIVE should be valuable to you, even if it doesn’t make you “money,” and even if I don’t “like” it.
Do what you love, and if you love posting on HIVE, Do it. No one is stopping you. Even if I hit the dislike button on your post.
See you on the other side,
❤️
Mr Skull
For sure HBD stabilizer and the return proposal are necessary to be voted… the hive analytics is a great tool that deserves some love and i am willing to see more functions on it!
That’s a good one! I have only started messing with Hive Analytics fairly recently. I’ll think of some questions in terms of how it helps my investment and circle back.
Well I have been using it more lately after you brought it up. I think something like this would cost well over 6 figures in the private sector. 100 HBD a day seems like @themarkymark is doing a lot of it free. But he would have to validate that.
I went ahead and gave it support even if it won't be continued because it wasn't fully funded.
Apparently having good analytics tools is not a priority for everyone else? Seems strange.
If there is some better analytical tool I can use I would like to see it.
No one spoke up about other proposals and people are mostly focused on likes and dislikes. Checks out……
There are a lot of reasons for it I believe. With Hive price being where it is, a lot of people have pushed to have less spending. Myself included, I have been beating this drum for a while now, unfortunately it's too late for the millions that was already thrown out the window.
It's mostly begging for votes in DMs that gets proposals funded.
Makes sense…. Not much I can add to that.
Well, either way, I personally really enjoy using it.
you really founded your happy place santa hurt.. lol..
I’m trying lol. We are getting there 🤣
You had already a shadow that always chase you, a big fan of yours? :)
aloha! ;) can i be a fellow investor/weirdo? I really got some nuuggets from ur post here and thank u for sharing.
It's so true.. if u, me, and the hundreds of other die hard hivers on here are never gonna let hive go away, then there is 0% chance of hive, HIVE, or HBD failing at all. It makes me want to go buy some more HIVE right now!
:)
It wouldn't take much.
People just have to start caring about the ecosystem again.
We need a future to be excited about that people look forward to.
yes! 😉🤜
🤛
both good projects! Also i believe that by buying that much hive, in a way you give hope to people.
Now i can't say or suggest what to vote in terms of projects but i would say dont vote the projects that ask funding and basically giving nothing back in return (in terms of value to Hive) and ofc are not held accountable if the don't do anything.
!PIMP
I don't think inflation is Hive's problem. I don't know the network's inflation rate.
I think the problem is that the number of users and ecosystems on Hive aren't growing at a rate higher than the network's inflation. The game DCity died a few days ago; it had been around for years.
I think you're mistaken about the value of HP and healing. If the charts show anything, it's that liquid Hive is more valuable than HP and its use in healing. A Hive pump can generate a 30% profit in a day. And you can have several pumps throughout the year. Personally, I don't usually exploit them. I like games and I play many games on the network.
If you love buying when you see fear in the market, you haven't seen anything yet. Consider that BTC is at 100K and it will take some time to reach a bear market price; project that onto altcoins. Furthermore, the US stock indices are booming. You'll see real fear in the markets when the biggest bull run in history ends and we enter the bear market.
Just look at the indices, the historical records, and you'll see we're at the peak of the wave. When the trend will change, nobody knows, but we all know it will happen someday. That's when you'll see real fear.
I just don't believe in timing the market. If that was possible, there would be a lot of really rich retail traders but most of them live in their mom’s basement and sell day trading classes.
Inflation is the problem in my mind. It’s an inflationary token, if there’s more sellers than buyers, the price will go down.
Here is the inflation information from the white paper:
A lot of rewards go to people who post. I think they should get rewards, but if I’m paying for it with inflation, I want to see better content.
And as far as I can tell, my stake does matter, especially if it’s big.
Inflation should be a problem, but not for Hive. If more people become aware of Hive, buy and create on Hive, or invest in HBD, adoption will grow, as will long-term value. In Hive's case, I think inflation should be in line with the annual global population growth rate.
If the world population grows by 3% annually, a 3% annual inflation rate for Hive shouldn't be a concern, although I don't know the exact percentages. It has more value to add in the long term by growing as a network than by fighting inflation.
I think the network is cheap. I like to compare it to XNO (NANO). It's a network that promises 0% commission for payments using XNO. There are 133 million XNO, and they've all been issued. Hive has use value and is far superior to XNO. Like in your case, you can bet on the APR earned by curating, rent out your HP, and also get 0% commission on many transactions. I just can't wrap my head around how a Ponzi scheme like XNO can have a market cap twice that of Hive. My conclusion is that Hive, as a network, is undervalued. I see more potential for its market cap to grow as a network, along with its ecosystems, than from fighting inflation with downvotes.
That just sounds like a Ponzi. Adding users does not increase HIVE price, especially if most of these new users have a KE over 1.
We can’t grow hive forever. Nothing grows forever. HIVE does have a lot of users right now.
I would rather see good content I like from a small user base that cares about their posts, than bad content from a bigger user base where no one cares about anything they write.
Rewards were never guaranteed. And this keeps going maybe we will have a haircut?
HBD does get more expensive to keep to peg as HIVE goes down in price.
It seems like people don’t care about the things that do matter to HIVE and most people only care about the rewards.
If rewards stop, will many these people stay dedicated to HIVE and still post?
I'm going to drop this here to expand your hive awareness.
I have contact with that author through matrix, if you'd like to have access to the room.
I might add this, too.
It is the original dream when I got here.
That changed as the power structure shifted.
It appears I can't find an original from 2016, here is the one in the github, so you should be able to see changes.
It’s a good analogy and I agree that the simulation will always end that way.
I mean yea, if everyone just battles each other constantly for power and there is no working together, it could get brutal.
But I’m actually not so sure it matters who has the most HP. If people have more HP they are less likely to do what you described. If 1 person owned all the HP then it would be pointless.
You want some diversity of ideas because it is inherently a creative platform.
IF all the hp voted, very few people would be getting rewards.
https://peakd.com/utopian-io/@paulag/the-impact-of-unused-steempower-on-the-rewards-pool-blockchain-business-intelligence
So, there is restraint being exercised.
The real question is who holds the hive on the exchanges, at this point, I'm not sure that number exceeds 5, most of which are arbitrage bots and hold less than 20%.
Should that hive get powered up the power structure would look even worse.
Good day.
I noticed that you were downvoting my posts. I would like to ask what I did wrong with my post or what else did you observe.
Thanks.
Regards
I have been liking the content I like, and disliking the content I don't like, it's been one hell of an experience.
This is a weird place 😪
You might think that you are exercising your so called freedom but all I see is someone in a really dark place who can't seem to let others be happy.
I'll be praying for you to find happiness and I forgive you.
In the end, I just wanted to go down the street and buy an iguana.
But then I got lost and next thing you know I am trying to swim with Shamu.
Man I love chicken noodle soup with a soda on a side.
Signed
Mr Turkey
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STOPCould you please tell me why you disliked my post? Is there something wrong with it?
This is a “project.” I am trying to figure out what we should be downvoting and what we should not as an ecosystem.
What is the standard? I think I have the answer…..
I have made up my mind on these things and will provide a new post when I my reach my next HP goal.
In your particular case, the main reason was self liking your posts while posting daily, KE>1.
Self voting is ok in many cases but I wasn’t seeing the reason there in this case.
If there is a good reason, just let me know and I’m happy to switch it back to a like.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I totally get where you’re coming from— I just feel my posts are genuine efforts I put into daily, so I thought giving them a like was a way to acknowledge that work. Would that count as a reasonable reason?”
I see you downvoted me. I would be happy if you could tell me what I did wrong. I hope you can help me. I wish you the best.
To me it looks like a lot of spam. I just personally don't like that kind of content.
I would be very happy if you could explain to me why you think my ID is spam. I have been using this ID for the past two and a half years and many friends in the hive world have helped me at various times. I hope you will consider me a friend and help me. If I ever make any mistake, please help me by providing information.
Well I don't know you so I'm not sure how we are friends.
I was looking at content the manual anti abuse accounts had downvoted (this can be easily done under activities in peakd). I looked at you profile, and too me it just wasn't very interesting.
I didn't really like it.
I manually run both this account and @hurtlocker
You aren't on a list or anything, not anything run by me. I am not a good coder by any standards.
Who knows, if you write something I think is interesting, I may upvote it sometime.
I didn't like your content. I hit the dislike button. That's really it. 🤷♂️
Please don't dislike me and I ask for your cooperation.
I have no idea what is going on right now. Like dude where is my car man! WHERE IS MY CAR!!!
AHHHHHH!!!!!