I’ve been pretty much out of service and exhausted the last few days. Just a combination of physical and mental exhaustion.
Many of my classes were cancelled so I spent more time than usual sleeping. The rest of the time was spent studying Japanese, playing Horizon Forbidden West and watching/listening to Hivefest on YouTube.
I didn’t write, I didn’t play music and I hardly had any contact with humans at all aside from the few classes I did have and the few messages I responded to.
I can’t say I feel refreshed yet but I must be getting there. I miss writing though, so I thought I’d respond to the things I’ve been absorbed in.
After watching the entire first day and half of the second day, I must say, I was a little too rash in my last post, and Chain Culture is the reason. I wasn’t there so I can’t say how much of a success it was, but I said something along the lines of:
“There is one way I think a price tag and a fancy venue like this is justified for a token that’s bleeding out slowly and has a community made up of mostly people who can’t afford it. That’s if the event is outward focused and trying to draw in new DApps as a ‘Crypto conference run by the hive community’”
That’s exactly the direction it seems to be going in, so while I think my decision not to go was the right one, I feel much better about it after seeing how there were a bunch of outside projects. And I’m jealous of everyone who went.
I think in the future this should be the stated goal of the event “to provide a chance for hivesters to meet and create bridges with other projects” with an emphasis on the later. And its good to asvertise it as both Hive fest and Chain Culture as was done.
In the future, I hope they focus their efforts on improving the Chain Culture aspect, find projects like ours which are overlooked by the majority of crypto but have a solid value proposition and a real community some of which can make it to the event.
I think the next Hive fest should be planned together with 2-3 other projects similar to ours in that way and it should be held in the hometown of the biggest of those projects.
There could be a few big brainstorm and information sharing sessions on discord where people can come to a loose consensus on which outside projects would be good to collaborate with and then the organizers can reach out to the ones many people agree on and see how they repsond before picking the location. Hive can be the main organizer with the other projects having speakers and advertising to their community.
I would still appreciate cheaper tickets and a less fancy venue but I can’t complain because that seems to be what Roeland is good at. The VJ/DJ performance looks like it must have been wonderful in person. Good taste in music too Roeland! May not appeal to everyone but it’s sophisticated and fits this kind of event very well, and if it’s only 30-60 minutes, its something I would have enjoyed a lot!
I stick by my statement that we should be organizing mote international hove events, including ones more casual than hive fest but bigger and more international that a regular local meetup. Some of the big local communities could try to organize a big party under the name “Hive Fest X Manila” or “Hive Fest X Melbourne” and invite the whole international community to join them.
A list of hotel recommendations with different price ranges, a few optional events for the day before and after. A price tag of $10-50, the cheapest venue possible with heat or air conditioning. BYOB or some kind of collaboration with a few local shops.
Anyway, here’s what I liked about Hive fest
Lite accounts
Good! Wen? We should have done this years ago. If the infrastructure wasn’t ready fine, make it a priority now! Lets go!
distriator /spend hbd
There aren’t many people who look at hive from every angle (content creator, dev, investor), and who are good at presenting the value of hive to people outside the expsystem, but Starkerz is definitely one of them. If Japan wasn’t such an abysmal place to promote a blockchain like hive (due to overregulation), I’d have focused my hive efforts on this project a long time ago.
It’s a bit ambitious and has an uphill battle, but he’s been great at coordinating and finding local leaders to help build out the idea. I would love if hive list or wavio and distriator could collaborate somehow to encourage an overlap between IRL and online shopping in HBD. It’s a little hard with shipping prices but I am sure there are reasons to think about this.
I also think Hive will spread much faster in countries with unstable currencies and a history of political instability. People are much more open to new things when the old thigns aren’t working, and also the cost of living in a place like Germany, the US and Japan make Hive attractive only for its theoretical or ideological reasons. In Caracas or in Lagos, Hive is a practical means of building a safety net and supplimenting an income. For some it could lead to real financial freedom, even now.
SPS DAO
I’m not an online gamer or a card gamer but I am glad to see the word DAO and new incarnations of DAO experiments. Also glad to see Clayboyn! Miss our interactionz, should reach out!
Onrail and offrail to coinbase and Metamask integration
This is a big deal. It feels way too late, but we still have a community so where there is a will, there is a way. I believe with more community face to face and fun promotion, this is the difference between someone taking the project seriously or doubting it’s authenticity. Many people severely doubted their ability to cash out, and are ready to call anything a scam, because let’s face it, crypto is full of scams. Having such high profile interoperability is a huge deal for both name recognition and trust.
I was a little disappointed at the amount of projects with exciting annoucnements but the fact that this community is still strong and still building is enough. I reaized that a lot of Hive’s ability to avoid crashing into the single digits these past few years is the demand from Splinterlands. If we had one more project do as well or a few projects do 1/5 as well, we’d be back to $0.50 in no time and probably higher in a bull market.
I’ve evolved since my early days when I thought Hive should be focus on content creation. It will aways be a cornerstone but that’s not where the sustained value of the token is. The more projects need Hive and the wider HBD is used, the more the price will be able to sustain itself and grow. While there are fewer projects than before, many of the surviving projects seem to have matured a bit.
I’d like to see the front ends experiment in different ways to bring in capital and pay for themselves rather than recirving DHF funding forever. I wouldn’t mind a single ad at the end of an article on ecency or one ad every 20 snaps on Snappie with a $5 HBD premium to opt out of ads. I’d pay that.
There are other things they could do. Build out a marketplace or buy out Hive List and get 5% of digital products. If you allowed people to pay with paypal and creators to get paid in HBD or even bitcoin but settle in HBD, that would definetly have some appeal. I’d start using Hive as the base for all my book and music sales instead of amazon or bandcamp or patreon, and Im sure many people would be interested in selling if the interface was simple enough.
As usual, there is a lot we could improve but we are still trecking along and keeping the dream of Hive alive.
I can’t promise I’ll make it to Hive Feat next year but I promise I will try to meet more Hivians by then, and if I have the energy organize something small where a few of us from different places could meet.
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