Hey everybody! say hello to the youngest orca on the blockchain! I'm very happy to share with you my achievement of growing my hive power to over 59,400, which officially puts me in the orca category on hivebuzz.me. Getting this cool badge on my profile is great, but I'd like to share with you some of the reasons I think it's important to grow your stake if you're a Hive citizen.
The community decides which content creators are adding value to the ecosystem
Every staked Hive token (known as Hive Power) gives your vote more weight. When content creators on the HIVE blockchain publish something that you consider valuable, you can use your vote to help them receive part of the reward pool, a portion of the new tokens that are minted every time a block is produced.
I've made a detailed explanation on how often blocks are produced, how much hive is created per block and how it's distributed in this blog post titled Hive - understanding the currency and reward system
Of course, if there are citizens who are not behaving in a manner that is in line with your values, for example, fake accounts, plagiarized content or hateful content, you can use your Hive power to vote down that type of content.
The community makes decisions on governance
One of the features of the hive blockchain that makes it so incredibly fast, is that it uses a Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus protocol. This means that everybody with HP can use their vote to elect the block producers, also known as witnesses. There are hundreds of witness nodes running, all voted by community members like you and me, but only the top 20 witnesses are eligible to produce blocks.
It is the job of these few to behave in a way that represents the community, much like your elected government representatives in real life. You should vote for those witnesses who you consider trustworthy, who maintain their witness node ( you can tell by the time of their last block as well as the version fo the software they are running) and who is voting for your ideal APR% for staked $HBD.
You can check and update your witness votes here
The community decides which projects get funded by the DAO
Hive has a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) called the DHF (Decentralized Hive Fund made up in large part from the original Steem blockchain's founders' stake that got forked out. Funds in the DHF are distributed to the projects that have enough votes to meet the minimum vote requirement established by the return proposal (or threshold proposal, if you will). You get to use your vote to decide how high the return proposal is. Is it 30 million HIVE? is it 60 million? And you also get to vote on those proposals that are eligible to receive funding. but YOU NEED TO VOTE and you need to vote with as much stake as possible to make your vote count.
These are just a few of the reasons I'm happy to be an orca now. I encourage everybody to build their stake a little bit as you will benefit yourself as well as your fellow Hiveans in the process.
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That´s a big one! Congrats mate! :)
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We're moving on up! 🙌
Thanks my friend. I wanted to make it here for a long time. It's important for all of us to grow and become active hive citizens.
Que genial!! Felicidadesss 🙌🏼🙌🏼✨
Orca con Noggles gracias a ti! 🙌 jaja. Abrazo!
Welcome to the ORCA Club!!! 🍷🎉
I thought that you were already a member for a long time ago! It looked like that! 😃 Thanks for everything that you are doing for the chain and for this great post (and explanation video)!!!
Next step! WHALE rank! 😃
I already felt like an orca in my heart a long time ago 😆 haha. But thank you for the OFFICIAL welcome to the club. I'm trying my best to make as much educational content as possible. There are lots of individual users, projects and fellow communities who might find it helpful.
I'll see you soon in an upcoming Discord and/or X space!
You are doing a great job here! I'm glad that we have someone like you on HIVE! 💪
Congrats and welcome to the orca pod! We need those who invest and commit to Hive to make it stronger. Votes matter in many ways.
You deserve a !BEER
Thanks Steve! I finally made it! 🙌
Completely agree with you! doing my best to make the community and the protocol stronger and to show others the importance of doing the same. Cheers!
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¡Muchas felicidades! Envidia de la buena jajajaja
Y gracias por compartir los videos ya vi tu carpeta. Saludos!
Gracias amigo! acá vamos, paso a paso y HIVE por HIVE. Espero que te sirvan los videos, voy a ir subiendo más conforme los vaya grabando. Tenemos a un interesado en participar en la iniciativa en este post.
Woop woop, welcome to the club. You received your complimentary caviar at the gate right! 😉
An orca needs to eat good!
Complimentary caviar?? Woohoo! You guys have been living the fancy life up in the Orca club.
Glad I made it!
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Congrats for your Amazing mileston
Grazie mi orca friend! I'm super excited and motivated to keep making this place grow. Thanks for the welcome into the club.
This is the cleanest video on the Blockchain today. Very informative what you've said about governance and staking. It's also one of simplest ways a newbie can understand the water creature hierarchy we have on the Blockchain.
Congratulations on becoming an Orca.
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Thank you my friend! Trying my best to make educational content for anyone who might need it. I'm sharing my videos with @eddiespino for the @hive-echo P.O.S.H. initiative. Reach out if you'd like to help share them on web2 socials to promote HIVE and earn upvotes in the process.
I would gladly share them any day at anytime even with no incentives, just let me know what to do, and I'll do that.
Congrats Mr Rourke!! this is such a great story! So glad guys like you are becoming Orcas! its much needed!
Thank you sir! It's been an incredible journey. I've definitely made some friends and even business associates along the way. I've also learned a lot about the crazy world of decentralized technology and how to use it. That's the key word.
Use it to buy coffee, use it to trade, to get paid and hire other talented humans.
Congratulations, Alex! Orca, very cool! 🤍🖤
I am close to double dolphin status btw.
Congrats! You're doing great climbing up the ranks! We're the builders of a strong community foundation made up of active and involved citizens.
Welcome to OrcaDom!! The entry level has gone up quite a bit, I remember it was not much over 50k a few years ago. Reaching this makes it so much more special now!
It feels great being part of the pod! 🙌 Thanks so much for your warm welcome!
Hey, congrats @alex-rourke! That’s huge—well done!
A few days ago, I chatted with Starkerz about Hive, blockchain, and all that good stuff. I’d love to get your take on a few things too. What do you think?
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Thank you my dear friend Arcange! I shall wear my orca badge proudly!
You're welcome. Looking forward to you becoming a whale 🐳
BTW, your support for the previous HiveSQL proposal has been much appreciated but it expired.
May I ask you to support the new proposal (#329) so HiveSQL can stay free for the community?
Thank you!
Congratulations, man! This is the last line before the whale!
By the way, the images in your post are beautiful, especially the orca making a victory sign XD
Baby orca for the win! haha. Thank you my friend. Unless something extraordinary happens, I'm probably going to stay in the orca level. You never know for sure though.
Wow! Congratz buddy 🤩
Thank you my Beta vulgaris friends! you are one of my favorite vegetables and now two of my favorite Hiveans.
The soup would not taste good without you Alex 🤩 You put so much value to Hive that I think you still can't see. Let's continue our amazing creative friendship and work together promoting Hive and showing everyone Hive Values 🥰
Well done on your Orcadom! You're the kind of person who makes Hive a great community.
What an amazing thing to say! Thank you! This is a truly amazing place to be. True believers make it so.
I’m definitely a believer!
Congrats! That's a big milestone!
Thanks! like many here, I've been stacking for years. I've got a feeling 2025 is going to be an amazing year for HIVE so I guess I'm just in time :)
We all hope so! 😀
That’s huge
Congratulations to you!
Thank you very much!
Congratulations! That's a fantastic achievement!
Thanks! it took me a while 😄. Feels great to join the ranks
Congratulations
Thanks Rolando!
haha Im not used to call out by my first name here in the blockchain, Indeed your a remarkable ORCA. Wishing you all the best. Cheers 🍻
Congratulations :)
Thank you very much!
congratulations. I hope that I will be able to join the ranks of orcas as well some day.
Don't forget to vote for witnesses and set your recovery account. It's important in case you lose your Keys or your account is compromised.
I congratulate you big time on your progress. I am a hive citizen and I hope to grow even beyond that level
Now is a good time to start building your stake. The sooner you start saving more than you spend, the sooner you'll start seeing your account grow :)
Congratulations
Wish you good luck and progress
Thank you friend!
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You can query your personal balance by
@acgalarza just sent you a DIY token as a little appreciation for your post dear @alex-rourke! Feel free to multiply it by sending someone else !DIY in a comment :) You can do that x times a day depending on your balance so:!DIYSTATSCongratulations @alex-rourke! You received a personal badge!
Wait until the end of Power Up Day to find out the size of your Power-Bee.
May the Hive Power be with you!
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Congratulations @alex-rourke! You received a personal badge!
Participate in the next Power Up Day and try to power-up more HIVE to get a bigger Power-Bee.
May the Hive Power be with you!
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Congratulations again @alex-rourke and thank you for the mention.
BTW, your support for our previous proposal has been much appreciated but it expired!
Your help will be much appreciated. Thank you!