People are in the cryptoverse for various reasons. Some want to make a quick buck and treat crypto like the casino. Others want to opt out from the rotten traditional financial system and hope crypto is the alternative. Others see crypto and blockchains as part of the future and want to position themselves accordingly. And others love crypto and blockchains when they are less exposed to centralized control and censor.
One can be in crypto for more than one reason, of course. But usually one reason is more dominant over the others.
On Hive I believe we have people for all of the above reasons. Hive, at the base layer is more decentralized than other blockchains and it is censorship resistant, thus being a great medium for people seeking these qualities.
At the same time, at the base layer Hive incentivizes long term holding through powering up and to some degree the HBD savings account (the liquidity is not available instantly).
One thing that I remarked over time since I'm on Hive is that I started to discern much easier the smoke and mirrors used by the powers that be - often using mainstream media - to either kill a dangerous wave (for them) that grows in popularity or move the attention elsewhere.
Everyone not living under a rock for the past half a year or so, knows the entire world (or most of it) is deepening into an economic crisis. And we are at the start of it.
Obviously people don't like this situation, and there is a growing discontent, although many don't express themselves publicly yet.
What do politicians watch like hawks? Polls! I don't think they do very well these days.
So they react as they can, each with their own limitations. One threatens to become a dictator in North America, many others started to play a war rhetoric.
What do people fear more than prices doubling, tripling and so on? They might fear war more.
If the subject wouldn't be such a serious one, it is actually funny to watch the propaganda from both sides play this game of war.
And that's what politicians from "both sides" are trying to accomplish, in my opinion, to keep the public entertained and scared by the prospect of war so they forget about their day-to-day growing problems.
Will Russia start a war against Ukraine? It seems very unlikely. The war rhetoric is beneficial to both sides (Russia and the West), an actual war would probably bring Russia to its knees in the aftermath, since they are the ones who would start it. Ukraine won't cross the border into Russia to attack - they have no reason to. Putin played his bluff, the West called it. He showed Russia's military muscles, again, but I believe now he's the one that will deescalate, because there are no other good options for them. It costs serious money to keep the army mobilized, so time is ticking.
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For me, HIVE and blockchain provides a place to create without the worry of unintentionally supporting an immoral cause. Creating on a centralized platform means that you have some responsibility about the actions and mindsets that the platform takes. Personally, I do not want to have responsibility about the mindsets of Twitter for example, and creating on the Blockchain solves this. I am responsible for my own content, and the platform I create on has no central actions or mindsets, and therefore doesn't cast its own narrative. Because it is decentralized, there's no smoke and mirrors on HIVE (at its core level).
Absolutely! That's a way to ensure your voice is not distorted or censored at the core level and that there isn't the politics of the platform which may become contrary to your own views.
Most people want to make quick cash with Crypto for sure. I wouldn't say I'm so different though.
However, being on Hive has totally changed my orientation!
The kind of people, posts and opportunities I find on here is worth more than a quick cash!
Everyone likes a quick buck. But usually, easy come, easy go. Unless you already have the right mindset which can only be for the long term. And you are right, community is awesome!
Easy come, easy go... Totally agree!
Having a long term mindset often pays off.
You have summed it up well.
As about Putin, I hope he's going to discover fishing or some sports to keep him busy :)
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Not until he retires, lol. Whatever that means for a president in Russia.
Sorry to disappoint you, there's no such thing as retirement in his vocabulary, it's obvious by now. Even if he has to modify the constitution and the law by force.
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If I'm not wrong, after he already modified the Constitution, he can be president until 78 years old or something like that. With "elections", of course.
Yes, he's already modified the constitution, but I don't know what is the latest version. But I'm sure he'll do everything in his power to stay in office till he passes away. As about "elections" ... we all know that is a joke :)
He never has any opponents as they either die or end up in prison.
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Another Listnerds success story.
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Thanks! Yep, Listnerds is amazing.
The problem with polls is that they are no longer accurate. Most of them are leaning their bias and modifying the results to fit their own narrative. It's a huge issue and I don't think it will be solved anytime soon.
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I agree. But that doesn't mean each side doesn't do internal polls and they are most likely biased toward who pays them. If those don't look good, then the politicians start to panic.
Yea I have to agree. I tend to find that the People's Pundit youtube channel is pretty informative about how polling works and why they got things wrong. I like that he wants to do a publically funded polling project even if it leans a little bit towards the right.
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Good points Adrian. I came to HIVE through ListNerds and at the time had no real idea what I was getting in to. I have been pleasently suprised with the outcome.
Great to see you started to enjoy it John! :)
Thanks for using ListNerds for promoting this post good sir!
Reading this....
Makes me think of my favorite George Carlin quote...
"It's a big club, and you aren't in it!"
LOL As the world spins....
I remember Carlin saying this, vividly. It's a great quote, but THE WAY he said it was amazing.
The media did like the topic(Russia-Ukraine) and it was also a good tool to manipulate markets. I'm not buying into the war narrative
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Nether do I. Propaganda machines at work, plenty of smoke and mirrors.
I started using hive because of splinterlands and now I can say that even if for some reason I stop playing the game tomorrow, I'll still use and support this blockchain. Hive can solve so many problems that people are experiencing right now...I'm pretty sure a lot more people will realize this at some point in the future.
I'm glad you're one of the guys who jumped from playing on Splinterlands to using Hive on multiple facets. Not many do that if they come in as gamers. It's perfect that Splinterlands has Splintertalk and that's a great way to be introduced to the blogging aspect of Hive as a gamer.
It's all smoke and mirrors. Everything is designed to distract and deflect. The legacy media is seen by many as impotent or at best compromised. As you say it would be funny if it weren't so serious.
I'm not sure if mainstream media realizes or not they are digging their own graves as they trash their own credibility. And what would be worse for them as media companies? Committing suicide or being unaware they are doing that.
The Hive and crypto, in general, is the start of a new financialsystem. To me the Hive is about giving and in return I receive. My wife still doesn't believe.
Many are slow to embrace it, even when they have living examples that it works. I suppose this stems from a lifetime of being scammed in various ways by things that seemed too good to be true.
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