Just to add to what you mentioned as for your reasoning on how you choose the winner, I recently just discovered the hive blockchain along with Splinterlands. It's been extremely game-changing for me. I am currently a miner for an altcoin called Cortex. I have an 8GPU 1080ti rig going at it 24/7. The community is small, with little to no interaction and unfortunately, the dev team doesn't interact with us on discord at all. I've run into some smart contract issues using their tools and after a couple of months of no response on my GitHub issues, I've given up.
Insert HIVE and Splinterlands! The community here is great! Involvement from so many different aspects that there seems to be a niche for everyone to be involved in. On top of how witness servers work, pretty much forcing the owners to be involved in the community in order to get the proper votes. I love this idea personally! I am the most active person in cortex discord, there was an AMA and when the developers finally responded to all the questions, and only mine Q's had responses. It made me feel a little....odd, weird..? If that makes sense.
I digress at this point, /end-rant. Hive has a great-looking community and I can't wait to be a part of it.
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