The News
You may have noticed that the crypto markets took another hit this week. Bitcoin is down to about $80k after the heady heights recently of $105k. $HIVE caught a cold too, but I do not let that get me down. I am earning every day.
I saw a few things happening this week, but @gadrian has just summarised those and others in his weekly post.
Friday Follows
- @harbiter has an album out there now. I will be listening when I find the time, but I have caught some performances he has shared on Hive.
- @alex-rourke just reached orca status on Hive. That is defined as 100M VESTS (the internal Hive currency that gets expressed as the inflationary HP, currently about 60k HP). We have hundreds of Hive orcas. Alex gives a nice description of what that power means. It gives you a say in what happens on Hive, but it is up to you how to use it. You may find people asking for your vote and that brings some pressure.
- The @coldbeetrootsoup team have been out spending crypto. I saw this done in Split at Hivefest, but have not done it myself yet. You need to find businesses who will take crypto and then you can use the @v4vapp to convert your $HIVE or $HBD to something like Lightning. I think I worked out how to do this within the Hive Keychain browser. You can find businesses on BTC Map.
- @libertycrypto27 has a nice tutorial on changing your keys. This is an important skill for Hivers. If you think that your keys may have been compromised then you should update them. It is not that hard to do.
I am using @commentrewarder on this post and people who are mentioned will get a bigger share if they comment.
The Dog House
The Hive community has a built-in immune system that reacts to bad behaviour and bad attitudes. If you upset the wrong people then you may find your account gets a low or even negative reputation and your rewards disappear. That can be hard to take if you feel it was unfair, but attacking the community is unlikely to make it better.
You may have seen comments like these on some posts. I do not even know the origin of how whey got to this state, but the person in question is posting thousands of comments via several accounts that seem to be mostly identical. That fits my definition of spam and so some of them get downvoted. Of course I have muted the accounts so that I do not get lots of notifications. The comments are an incoherent mess of links and 'AI' generated junk that nobody is going to read. They see themselves as being on some sort of crusade to root out corruption on Hive, but it may be largely aimed at themselves for being annoying.
I did try engaging with this person, but they persist with the rants and I have given up. Their issues are nothing to do with me and I have better things to do.
Hive is not perfect and some people will use their power against those they dislike. We cannot control what others do, but that is the freedom of Hive. You can choose whether to support them of course.
I find it hard to care about this particular individual as they have chosen to be an annoyance. We cannot stop them posting, but they are not winning friends. No doubt they will respond to this and perhaps tag me on a post, but I will not be reading it. I suggest that you make use of the mute button where you see fit. An advantage of communities is that administrators can mute accounts generally to keep things on topic.
The End
We are already at the end of February. That means I will be doing another #BritList post tomorrow. I have not found too many new entries this month. The number of active Brits is not going up. The price may be a factor, but I find Hive a better place to get engagement than the corporate platforms. I have cut back on using them as they tend to frustrate me.
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We should be more and more hivers who use the hbd to buy things in real life, what CBRS friends are doing with Marketing is amazing.
I personally have paid with hbd, it is a very comforting experience because you pay ah directly with the fruit of your publications.
Saludos y buen fin de semana.
!PIZZA
I've spent some of my earnings via a crypto debit card, but doing it directly is more convenient. This is the future.
!BEER
Loving the energy bro 🤩
I haven't tried paying in HBD yet because I'm completely focused on increasing my HP but this is a great use case for HBD tokens
Thanks a lot for the mention :)
!discovery 30
You have to try paying with HBD 🥰
I will when I get a chance.
Also, how cool would it be to have Hive Meetup is a place where you can spend HBD 🥰
I, too, have attempted to communicate with this person. It's almost like talking to a schizophrenic who gets on their drug regimen for a while and seems almost lucid temporarily, but then they get off the routine and spiral back into their delusions hardcore. They used to make token calls with an empty hive engine wallet, resulting in not only their spam, but a number of refusal messages letting them know they had no tokens, too.
!INDEED
!BBH
!LOLZ
Some people are beyond hope and you have to wonder what drives them. I'm not wasting any more time on this one. I just do what I think is right. I can't solve all the problems that Hive has, but I can make it better for some people.
!PIZZA
Wow. Now he even accused me of pedophilia. We're not dealing with a rational individual here.
Don Quixote tilting at windmills is sane in comparison. Downvotes continue!
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I keep using Peakd but I’d jump at a front end that allows me to forget spammers like that exist entirely 🤭
I just ignore most of the comments like that too.
That guy needs help and should stop antagonising people.
The mute button is the gift that keeps on giving 😀😀
We need these controls. Hive is the wild west, but it should be civilised
We totally do otherwise we would be inundated with kak comments and spam
Thanks for the mention!
When people hold a grunge against something or someone for so long, it can't be healthy.
We could use some price relief in the next period, or the crypto space will become very unhappy, particularly since everyone expected 2025 to be a bull year.
I’m going to figure out a way to transfer some sats from my lightning wallet to Hive. A little experiment.
I don't have a Lightning wallet, but I think that using @v4vapp may mean that you don't need to have one. I am still figuring all that out.
Successfully transferred 250 sats from my Alby wallet to v4v and it worked out very quickly.
Cool. It's so nice when this stuff just works.
I was impressed!
I’m teying to buy more HIVE at 0,25$
Good luck with that
Hi Steve, if Bitcoin were to drop to $70,000 as the Bitmex CEO said, don't you think it's possible that HIVE could briefly drop back to $0.25? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
I really have no idea as I don't play the markets, but every time BTC goes down the rest tend to follow. I want to see Hive stand on its own merits, but there are too few actual users.
Hi @steevc HIVE takes time. Here in Italy few people invest in Bitcoin, many do not know what Ethereum is. Now try to think how well known HIVE can be in Italy. I showed HIVE to my 50-year-old friends, but they cannot understand. Those who have made an account still prefer to use Facebook. I can't believe it, but it's like that
I use FB less these days as it's full of junk and my friends don't post much anyway. I find Hive more fun. I think as a cryptocurrency it works really well with fast and cheap transactions. I want to try the @v4vapp to spend some as I feel I deserve to treat myself. Of course I'd prefer the price to be higher so I can spend more :)
@steevc, I paid out 11.193 HIVE and 0.000 HBD to reward 19 comments in this discussion thread.
This acccount sometimes drops by my posts as well with low upvotes.
I think they do it for attention as the votes are worth nothing.
Despite the ups and downs of the crypto market, your resilience and commitment to the Hive community truly shine through. Keep earning and supporting one another, and let’s continue to build a space where creativity and collaboration thrive!
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