This is the #113th edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:
Hive
- Hive Thrive
- Hive Debit
- Banking/Crypto
- Happy Meal
- Happy Customer Suppermarket
- Bitcoin Social Accounts
- Inleo
- WP plugin
- Free servers
- Waivio
- Rising Star
- Splinterlands
- PeakMonsters
- Nightshade.gg
Crypto
- Crypto Summit
Week on Hive
22 of 39 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
Hive Thrive Podcast with Blocktrades as Guest
Hive Thrive podcast this week, which is both a good thing and good timing, because he doesn't often share his opinions visibly about various Hive matters other than core development.@blocktrades was invited to the
He talked a lot about the DHF, why it is the way it is, and if he thinks it's good the way it is now, as the hosts and audience's questions piled up in this area, as expected. He also touched the aspect of his vote on the Return Proposal. Talked more at large about that and other topics in the part that wasn't recorded and which I partially caught live.
At some point, he said he doesn't focus on how to improve the current DHF, but... that his approach is how to create something new from scratch.
There was a lot more talk about the DHF in its current form, and how can things improve...
Beyond this subject, he responded to an important question regarding how he sees Hive grow, what are his (team's) next major focuses on Hive, "wen" smart contracts, if devs see ideas being thrown around in the community, how can the community make an impact, and so on.
He also mentioned a couple of times the other major project he is building, which involves building a reputation system and way to easier reach decisions/find qualified opinions in a decentralized system, from my understanding. This project is not Hive-related, but Hive could benefit from it.
Blocktrades also mentioned publicly that he spends annually on Hive development more than the entire DHF proposals combined, and gave a rough estimate in the non-recorded part, and it's a BIG number (for Hive). He also repeated he won't pay for Hive development forever, something he said with another occasion too.
You should listen to the podcast, much better than my summary.
Hive Debit DHF Proposal
Hive Debit to me has a high-impact marketing potential and new or enhanced use cases for HBD (and as seen in the proposal, for Hive). I thought it deserved the spotlight. Check it out!
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Wow! Almost 2 Million Views of Hive Posts from Reddit in February!
About half an hour after I published last week's news update I came across this gem.
It's incredible how well things are going for Hive posts over on Reddit lately. Of course, our content does often add value to Reddit, by adding information or stirring up conversations.
Speaking of that, note that now OCD shares upvotes for sharing on Reddit.
When Banking System Breaks...
... a crypto alternative is good to have. He pointed out an example when the banking system took "a nap" for several hours (halted), while businesses couldn't make transactions. During that time crypto (Hive, in particular), worked just fine. Very good short presentation by @sorin.cristescu!
Happy Meal with CBRS
Noo, not the kind from McDonald's! But I'm sure if they start taking in crypto, their crypto-customers won't mind...
I just said that because the CBRS guys seem always happy and cheerful (despite the kind of awful weather, if you asked me, lol), and paid for their soup and tequila shots with HBD. Nice video came out of it!
Happy Customer Supermarket Promotes on Facebook
the post). Note that he presents Distriator with a slideshow and projector right there inside his supermarket.If you missed my previous mentions of this new business opened with Hive earnings by @focusnow, know that he started to promote it on Facebook to its nearby area. He already got 7 new customers this way in a short time (links to all their profiles are included in
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
Bitcoin Social Account on Hive
how to create a bitcoin social account on Hive, if you want to, step by step. For Hivers, you need to install a wallet and fund it with 5000 satoshi, those are the most important steps.@starkerz shows us
Inleo Gearing Toward More Open-Source...
... we find out from their impromptu AMA from yesterday.
I'm not sure if they already open-sourced their onboarding options, as described in the latest iteration of their DHF proposal, but certainly developers outside their team took a look at what they were doing there and gave them some pointers, which they took, and seems like they made the necessary changes. Point for open source and collaborations, compared to closed source.
Missed a WordPress Plugin for Hive?
For anyone who did, this is at the beginning, but Rome wasn't built in a day either.
Free Servers for Hive Projects...
the details of their offer, also note that they prefer to remain anonymous and you need to be careful what you put on those servers as one of the comments points out.@hivedatacenter is offering free servers for small or test Hive projects. Check out
Something New from Waivio
Waivio created a message bot for boosting engagement. While they describe how it works in their post, I didn't understand one part. What does the message bot send? Comments to target user's posts? A memo with a link to a post that describes the challenge? In-app messages in Waivio (if there is such thing)? The last one would obviously be much cleaner for the blockchain, and, as @grampo presented, very effective in their experiment. Depending on how it was implemented, this could be built upon to send out a series of posts at scheduled times/dates, instead of just one.
Games
Rising Star Updates
Rising Star updated ranking to be highly skewed toward unique cards, and also introduced a new Pawn Shop, where people could send their cards with luck on them. The player sending the most amount of luck wins the extremely limited edition card in the Pawn Shop (rotated after a minimum of 20 days), others will get PAWNIES (points) to use on other cards that will be added. Here are the details.
Splinterlands Updates
One exciting news comes from X, where Matt, the co-founder of Splinterlands, announced that he bought 7m more SPS, being so bullish for what's to come. That certainly can boost the confidence of everyone else! Oh, and he also stepped down as CEO, a position he really hated. Dave McCoy is now the new CEO of Splinterlands.
From a discord update, we find out that from Land 1.75 onward totem fragments can only be found by harvesting Research Huts, Castles or Keeps.
If you are a Guild member, make sure you check out these polls to vote on the frays composition after Chaos Legion drops out of Modern.
Also from discord, in Arcade Colony, we learn about a few updates to MoonKarts, including a matchmaking penalty system for players who intentionally abandon 3 races in a row, who will receive a 4-hour temporary matchmaking ban. This apparently has become a problem, as players played multiple accounts simultaneously and alts were dropping out of the race to favor the main account.
Speaking of Moonkarts, the infographic contest is over and we have the winners.
PeakMonsters Allows You to Stake Your Licenses w/o Running Your Node
PeakMonsters added the functionality to stake you licenses on their website and collect rewards, even if you don't want to run your own SPS node.
Speaking of running SPS nodes, quite a few people announced their nodes through posts these days. Make sure you check them out if you are a SPS stakeholder and cast your votes.
New Splinterlands Card Rental Service
Nightshade.gg is a new card rental service for Splinterlands owned by @doloknight. I haven't had time to look at it, but I've seen a discord announcement that it was added to Splinterlands links of 3rd parties (while splex.gg was removed).
Week in the Crypto World
Crypto Summit at White House TODAY
article is also pre-event, so either check the news later on, or tomorrow to see what happened.Thanks to @resiliecia's post from a few days ago I became alert that this was coming. This
Funny, BTC is down 4-ish percent now. If it goes up 10% after that, should we be happy, or wait for the next day? 😂
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I caught some of the blocktrades chat. I've met him and he's very smart. I don't think some people appreciate how much he's done for us.
You have a point... People do get caught in rather minor details sometimes, and lose sight of the bigger picture. I catch myself doing that sometimes, but hopefully, not very often.
He does a lot for Hive, and he was integral to us forking from Steemit, him, others and theycallmedan. I think the issue is that people just wants the DHF issues to be curtailed, I guess it brings a feeling that one bleeding part of the ecosystem has been cauterized. By yes, sometimes we focus on the smaller picture, because of worry, doubt and fear
I think he did more for Hive after that. Yes, there is quite a lot of fear the way we think about DHF. I wonder if we would have the same opinions at HIVE 10$ or are we influenced by the price.
Yeah, but a lot of people tends don't think we would be even be seeing 2$ if the DHF keeps bleeding the ecosystem. You know how people pass a vote of no confidence on something and it makes them not want to either buy or have faith that prices will turn around?
You know how the sentiment changed for Splinterlands? Because many were thinking and saying they will not buy any packs in the new set. Matt bought 7m SPS. I'm not saying a Hive whale should buy a shitload of Hive to change people's sentiments, but how about a few bigger projects? You'll see how everyone will think differently after that.
Hive getting noticed in Reddit is a great news
It didn't just got noticed. People worked for that to happen, and it eventually was successful. But still, Hive content needs to be shared in the appropriate subreddits to have an impact.
I agree with the high impact that the Hive Debit can bring in the market
It can have some decent revenues. I think it could self-fund with a little help even without the DHF proposal since I see it still lacks lots of votes.
I'm very happy to see Hive gaining traction, especially with that Hive Debit proposal, I believe it could really give HBD some serious utility. Waivio's message bot sounds cool too, though still trying to wrap my head around it. I use their hashtag without even understanding it 🤣🤦
Let's see how that goes. I don't see major support for it yet. Maybe there are some negotiations. Likely theycallmedan and starkerz will vote on it at some point since they backed the project by themselves in the concept phase.
How does that work out for you? I mean do you even earn WAIV for doing that? They have a front-end (actually more than one), which are very customized compared to the standard tribe interface. Focused on social online stores, mostly. Distriator is using their tech, btw.
Oh that's something new I'm learning... I checked my tokens on Hive keychain, there's actually waivio maybe I may or may not be earning but I'll be looking deeper into that
You might earn then from certain dividend/income projects, and not from the tribe itself. That's how I got most of them.
oh wow then I need to stash more to invest in these projects
I'm not sure which one still distributes H-E tokens. The big ones switched to distributing HIVE dividends, mostly.
Oh then I'll really have to learn
It is nice to hear that there is a new card rental services in Splinterlands
Yeah, they might be getting ready for the influx of new users from the marketing campaign.
I like the hive debit card, could be boosting for hive
If enough of them go around, they can even have an economic impact. If not, they have at least a marketing impact with extra ease of use and security (interesting, both at the same time) to those who will have them. But it remains to see if they will have a good use case for the majority of the Hivers or people willing to join, or located in different areas of the world.
yea here no one accepts btc payments for example
Yeah, I don't think anyone accepts them in my town either, but in bigger ones there might be a few options.
It's interesting to see the part on blocktrades and his view on the DHF. It sounds like the development continues but I guess we can't expect it to be funded forever. It's something we need to keep on our mind as more time passes on Hive.
Yeah, it's a lot of money. Development funded by the DHF needs to show more results, and sooner.
I am excited to to try the Pawn Shop on Rising Star
Thanks for reminding me. I'm heading that way now, too.
I've been following the Hive and crypto news, and it's great to see initiatives like Hive Debit proposal and Waivio's message bot taking shape. Excited to see how they'll impact the community!
The former I think will have a pretty big impact. The latter it depends... I'm not sure yet how it really works.