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Unfortunately, he did not create an account.

I told him about Hive since 2020, when he just founded his Trustee project.
Since then, Hive has lost its users, which were more than 2,500,000, and Trustee now has more than 1,000,000 users in Europe.

Unfortunately, Hive and Trustee are now in different weight categories.

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Yeah, unfortunately, I got burned by too many projects like this (more than I can count), some from Europe too. Too much effort and work to try help, and the outcome is just not professional enough, so I gave up in a sense.

For example, allowing users to spam referrals should be an automatic disqualification for all the referrals in the past, in my view, to discourage doing such stupidity, which actually brings the brand down, in my view. No normal user would do that, and clearly, this one is trying to get exposure very quickly, while people have not yet done their investigation.

This is the kind of things that hurt everyone in crypto. Unfortunatly pumped by rewards.

Technology will get (is being) disrupted with AI soon, and the last thing I want is to be caught in a fricking corner of hype from crypto processors and financial approvers.

Sounds negative, but one can do so much, and I like a good critic/constructive way of speaking, but I really don't enjoy European bureaucracy (part of the reason I left). And I was super enthusiastic about these things in the past... thinking that by giving my identity, I could be protected by policymakers. Nah... complete disappointment with the regulation. I know, nothing is perfect; there are pros/cons. Yes... But I had my share.

Hence, it's either not regulated-possible, trustless, and technology-lock-free (aka open source), or I am probably out. Otherwise, please pay me to test, I also have my own hobbies, my freedom, my little corner, as many would say...

I wish him and the project the best, sincerely... And I am not closing doors here, just stating my experience and opinion. Everyone is always free to contact me... but it is worth protecting the free world if you once found one.