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Well, it's hard to be the third one aftertwo professional presenters,
to do like a noob thing.
This is my first time that I'm doing a
presentation of the project.
The project is like three
years old, so we are not newbies.
But we were trying to show how everybody
can succeed, actually.
So you don't have to be a whale, you
don't have to be a huge name.
You can just start building bricks and
build something, which
can mean after some time.
But the thing is, it's always boring to
do the slow growth thing.
Especially on high people
are not that much focused,
and they lose attention after a couple of
posts or a couple of failures.
If you call it failures, they don't get
engagement or things like that.
Actually, I had the idea
to talk about one thing,
and when I was listening to the first two
presenters, I switched things in my head.
So the idea was to speak a little bit
about decentralization
and how we tried to explain the same
thing in different ways.
So if we ask for decentralization, if you
ask for somebody who runs the Hive node,
you will see the answer to
decentralization that we are running Hive
nodes all around the globe.
So it's not centralized in one place,
it's on different
places around the world.
And on the second step is
that Hive is a DePos blockchain,
which is again a different way how you
can say that Hive is decentralized,
because we have these witnesses which we
are choosing, voting for them,
and then they are
representing our blockchain.
So in a way, we have different people who
are representing the same thing,
and that's the way how
it's decentralized in a way.
And it wasn't enough for us because we
are Hive, so we want more.
We don't want just physical
decentralization, we don't want other
people to talk for us.
We want to talk for ourselves.
So that was the thing when we
split from the old blockchain,
as it was a running joke that Hivians are
the honey badger of blockchain,
because we didn't care about a guy who
wanted to take over the community,
because you can't buy community and
community just moved to other places.
And the thing with the decentralized
communities is the
biggest obstacle for creating,
to go into decentralization is ourselves.
So because we learned the
thing to do in centralized way,
as through all the history of humanity,
we're always following one God,
we're following one king,
we're following one person.
We always follow one person, and it's
stuck in our head how we can't think that
something else exists,
so that we can actually think like a
community, that
everybody has its own vote
and everybody can be a leader.
And we don't have to have one leader, we
can have more than one leader.
And that's the point with the Hive, that
we don't have one
person who is leading Hive,
we have many people who are leading Hive.
But the thing with decentralization is
that it's very hard
to break our mentality
and our thinking that we
can do something differently.
We were building that for
thousands and thousands of years,
and people are saying, I was just talking
yesterday with some of you guys,
and he said like, "This decentralization
is impossible to do."
But we can't expect that we can do, that
we create this centralized community
in a couple of years when we were
building something
for thousands of years.
And we need that different mindset to
create a different mindset.
So in Liotes we try to focus on
community and actually empowering other
people to do their best.
So to do more than they think that they
can do, like I'm doing the presentation
and I have no clue about doing that. So
that's the thing how they can do.
But the thing with onboarding is these
questions that we ask
when we come to Hive.
Most of the people ask
always, "What can Hive do for me?"
And "What problem
will Hive solve for me?"
So I come to Hive and I want to create, I
need money, I create posts
and that will solve my
problem, my financial problem.
But actually it's not like
that. It's the other question.
What can we do for Hive?
What can we do for others?
It's always easier to break
those first steps on Hive.
You come to Hive, create an introduction
post, you get some nice
uploads from big whales.
After a couple of posts you don't have
that support and then you just fall down.
Because you are focused on yourself, but
if you focus on others you
are doing people much easier.
Because you provide
something for another person.
I had a company like 15 years ago and my
co-founder also is
running a business company.
And we always had the thing that you put
the client on the first place.
So you are thinking about
him and not about yourself.
And that was the mentality
how we tried to build Liotes.
And we come to these
crazy Liotes missions.
The thing with Liotes missions is that
every Wednesday we create a post
where we ask Hivians for
opinion about a certain thing.
It can be related to Hive, it can be
related to something
ordinary life or else.
And Hivians are creating replying
comments on those posts.
The thing is that during these three
years, because we are
doing that every single week,
we asked many many questions.
So if you want to do a
survey about a certain topic,
you can just go through
history on our Liotes blog page
and you can actually find the question
what you want to ask others and see how
people are thinking.
And I don't know why, but it just
happened that people found that those
missions, those posts,
they found free to express themselves to
answer what they really
think about these things.
And we asked some hard
questions about downvotes.
We asked questions about the type of
content and those stuff.
And usually people are not creating posts
with those opinions because maybe they
are scared about
downvotes and stuff like that.
But on these posts, they were actually
generally saying
their opinion about that.
So that was really, really nice to see.
And in a way, you get kind of a cut and
you can see what people
are really thinking about.
And it's interesting that some of the
comments were actually much, much, much
better written than the
own posts from those people.
So they were putting more effort in the
comment than they are
putting in their own content.
This was probably because people like
when you ask them for opinions.
So maybe opinion is good.
Maybe it's bad.
Maybe I agree.
Maybe I disagree.
But they like to be asked because they
like to be in a spotlight.
And the thing in Amsterdam when I was in
a Hivefest two years ago, I
was watching other presentatres.
And I was thinking, wouldn't it be great
that next time, on the next Hivefest, I
take a place there and go out and I say,
OK, let's say something from the audience
and invite somebody else and put somebody
else on the spotlight just
because asking like a question.
And also, we are rewarding meaningful
comments, which is something that, in our
opinion, is more important than the
monetary value of comments or posts.
Because people just like to like that
they are appreciated with a comment.
So it's not always just
money, which is important.
It is important, of course.
But the comments are creating this kind
of relationship that there is a human
behind the keyboard, behind the computer
who is writing this because I got often
comments from people
who just came to Hive
Oh, it's nice.
I got an upvote.
But from whom did you get the upvote?
So it's not coming
from an imaginary person.
Somebody clicked and
gave you that upvote.
So it's kind of
appreciation of doing that.
And meaningful comments are something
that are very, very powerful for
collecting followers.
So if you want to get followers, if you
appreciate other person, other person
will appreciate you.
So that's the simple logic.
So there is nothing no
secret sauce regarding that.
We have another thing
that is our pick curation.
That is another sub project that we are
doing every weekday.
We create a compilation
of posts which we upvoted.
And we are doing that by our own Hive
power because we started like a small
project three years ago and we didn't
wait for somebody else to give us
permission to do that.
And we got an idea that we actually have
two tokens on Hive engine.
One is a miner.
One is a mine token and the miner's token
you can buy for five hive.
And we did differently things from all
the others which did before us as we
invested all the money that we sold those
miners and we powered up in Hive.
So all the Hive power at the beginning
was actually our own Hive power that we
sold these those tokens.
Most of the other
projects were doing it reverse.
I don't know what they did.
But the most thing we did all.
So there there is no profit from the
miners that didn't go to the hive power.
But after on we started with accepting
delegations too. Every single day we are
going through Hive and rewarding quality
posts on Hive as other curators are doing
also something that is differently from
others is that we are assisting
In adding valuable comments.
So every curator which is currently in
our project is actually adding valuable
meaningful comments to every post which
is a fortunate supported by our people as
our Hive power is not
that big at the moment.
We have a limited number of curators but
as our hive power is growing we will add
additional curators to our project.
Other initiatives that we are running we
have this thing with
Liotes ranking rewards.
So every month we are rewarding people
top 15 people from Liotes ranking.
How can you get to Liotes ranking?
First thing that you can contribute like
going to these Liotes missions and
reply on the comments.
So you are just replying on the question
that we ask every Wednesday.
And for doing that
you are getting points.
The second thing is by buying one of the
LEN miners that we are
selling for five hive.
After that we are doing the thing with
the hive power that I said.
The thing is that every single thing that
you actually do on Liotes is rewarding
you for what are you doing.
So the second thing that we have is
Liotes power challenge.
This is a yearly thing that we following
all the people who are
inside our our community.
The thing why is called
community without the community.
So the thing is that we didn't create a
hive community per state.
So we don't have Liotes hive community
like a registered community.
But doing these thing we have a lot of
people who are coming to these
posts and commenting.
And actually they have created we have
created a small community around the
project without having a large community
with rules and all of this stuff.
And the Liotes power challenge is
actually that we are following hive power
of the of the people who are
inside this this community.
And we are publishing
every month or twice per month.
But how you are actually progressing.
We are following your hive power.
And in the end of the year because we are
collecting the tokens and at the end of
the year if you have powered up the most
you get these
LEN tokens as a reward.
The thing with our LEN token why it's
different than others is that all the
LEN tokens that are currently in
circulation are actually the tokens that
are mined with those miners.
So none of the tokens
is minted separately.
All the tokens are actually
mined by these LEN miners.
That's important to say even these
rewards that we have
created we are creating separate.
We are calling them pots
for a certain thing.
So we have a pot for Liotes ranking.
We have a pot for
Liotes power challenge.
And that pot is growing every single time
when we create this post when
we collect the author rewards.
As everything that is inside the
Liotes is actually going back to the
project to grow the project.
And the thing is that we are taking our
admin cut on a second level.
So if the community grows if community
goes up then we are
taking our profits.
If community doesn't do
well then we do not do well.
But do well so that
that's the difference.
Also we are running a Hive witness for
maybe three four months ago.
We started one.
We were hesitating with this.
People are talking about Hive witness.
They are always thinking that to be a
hive witness you have to be a coder.
You have to be a programmer.
You have to be a developer which actually
is not true as every single person
has its own thing what you do on Hive.
So you don't have to do all the things
and you don't have to
do the coding things.
Every person is important because every
single person is that small part
of the chain that does something in its
own way and contributing to everything.
So we are running a witness for three
four months and it goes well.
We didn't miss any blocks until now.
So that's great.
Besides the Hive witness we are doing the
Hive engine witness also Hive engine is a
is a second layer
blockchain or sidechain on on Hive.
So we are running that because our tokens
are actually on Hive engine and a bit of
history we launched at 9th of March 2021
and we were a bit of we had the bad luck
that we launched at the same time like a
token from the Leo guys.
So that was like a competition which was
like there and we were like there so and
it didn't go that well.
But if you just look in the history you
see that many of those tokens actually
are now out of circulation and they are
not working but we are still here.
Of course you can check
the token how it goes.
The thing when we started we had the
different idea how to
do the whole project.
We had an idea to contribute and
collaborate with other
tribes and to push them up.
We had the idea about doing the Liotes
shop where we did the the renting of
tribe tokens and renting the splinterland
cards and rising star cards which
in those moments they didn't have a
market which they have now.
But in those moments they didn't have and
we decided to do a diversified
thing with the tokens
that we are supporting.
So the thing that with tribes many tribes
are actually went very pretty pretty down
and the thing with the diversification
actually was a good thing as we added
some of the tokens to the diesel pool.
So if you want to do the thing with the
diesel pool you have two tokens as I said
before and if you want to promote
your token you have to add the rewards to
the diesel pool and we add some
diversified token which was a good move
as focusing on one thing and crypto is
very hard because
you can pick one project.
But you never know how it will go so you
can't trust to other person and that's
why probably blockchain is the most
important thing because it's
trustless because
you don't trust the person
you trust the chain.
So because of that we did different
things and we probably missed some of
these opportunities because the
tribes are not anymore there but we
had another thing that we pushed through.
So we did the innovative things with
the diesel pools that because we paired
our mining token and our
mined token in one diesel pool.
Nobody did that before we did that before
we did that because we wanted to create
more liquidity for our tokens as
all the liquidity was actually built
up slowly day by day by these miners and
any person now can easily come into the
Liotes by buying
these tokens or on the
regular market or on the diesel pools as
liquidity is growing every single day and
you are incentivized actually to add your
liquidity to diesel pool because you are
getting rewards for that.
Regarding collaboration from the
very beginning we had a nice
collaboration with the rising star game
and at this moment our tokens are the
only token besides the swap hive
that you can buy actually directly rising
star of packs with with the LEN token.
So that's something that is
unique actually for LEN and we
have a great collaboration with ecency
because ecency is actually giving points and
besides voting for
for a good post on hive.
We are actually every single time
rewarding people which we picked with
additional points from ecency
and also a ecency was good for us.
So they actually gave me place
to do the show on Wednesday. So I'm
doing like a show for
about hive on in this discord.
So we had them as a guest in one of the
shows presenting the CBRS philanthropy
and that was a great thing. Another great
show was where we were sharing about the
different communities on hive.
That was one of the most visited shows
because we did it in dual languages. So
it was in Spanish and in English. So we
had a lot of people from
Venezuela in that show.
And in general, it's kind of way like
educating others. How what are the
potential? What is the important on hive
and how can you actually build hive
your account of hive
and we are the questions.
There are plenty of things. So I skipped
many things before we were doing most of
the things we were explaining to
economics. We were explaining
these things which
can be boring.
Maybe this was boring also. But the idea
was more to explain why we are doing it
and what can we actually bring to
other hivians and how to
how we want to empower others.
So we are not that much focused to
onboarding but more to keeping those
people continuing to build on Hive.
So that's kind of a mission of any
curators probably
here. So that is thank you.