One thing has become abundantly clear to me in my 2 years here— there are not enough incentives on Hive to build and retain stake.
Sure, I can wax poetic about community, friendship, and the joy of sharing our lives here. Unfortunately, these things alone are not enough for most to feel invested in building HP.
This is evidenced by the surge of power-ups on HPUD, and the huge lack of them the rest of the month. Perhaps the Hive Power Up Day mindset should be encouraged every day. Hoping to inspire authors to build, or at least retain stake, the vision for @hive-up was born.
Founded by @yaziris and myself, Hive-up is a project that aspires to push Hive price up by supporting authors who are growing their stake on chain. We hope to amp up excitement surrounding HP growth in doing so. You can read the project's full introduction post here.
We have a number of wonderful curation projects on chain which I believe are integral to keep the whole ship afloat. However, before now we did not have a project that exclusively uplifted authors who are investing in the blockchain. This may be a dire need.
With Mt. Gox liquidating a massive amount of Bitcoin, we believe it is more important than ever to fight for Hive. This is not just a social media or blogging platform, it is a home. Hive-up is dedicated to defending Hive price with one of the best weapons we have— the curation of quality authors.
Although it would be remiss of me to lay out our exact curation guidelines, I'll give as much detail as I can here. Our top priority is encouraging authors to build and retain stake by posting quality content, powering up, and in general being awesome. We will not curate those who have excessively powered down, nor will we support those who are not in good standing with the community.
Much like we support native bug populations by enriching the ecosystem, we should support the Hive by giving the bees plentiful plant life to make honey with.
If you are not an analogy person, I'll say it simply. Without incentives to increase stake, we are unlikely to see many Hivians motivated to grow their accounts.
So, what makes us so confident that we have the chops to launch a project with such ambition?
@yaziris
Yaz is a dev, community leader, and constant helper. Although he prefers not to spotlight this assistance, I see him taking the time to answer questions and help others along on a regular basis here on the blockchain.
In addition to that, he developed @hivediscomod, which currently assists community curation in over 60 servers! Since developing this helpful bot, he has added many functionalities to it, most notably curation rewards payouts. This has helped to boost community account VP while rewarding those who support their favorite hubs here on chain.
@grindan
What can I say about myself? I love this blockchain and have been dedicated to growing my own stake here since I joined. I quickly was brought into the world of curation, and have been a community leader ever since. I currently assist in 4 communities, and curate for a number of projects across the blockchain.
Although I am but a fiction writer, mother, and general dork, I was able to rapidly grow my account here on chain thanks to the support of those who have been here a while. After hitting minnow and then dolphin in my first year here, I found a huge inspiration to help others do the same.
Without support from the community, this dream will remain just that— a nice idea with little weight.
We are asking for delegations to @hive-up to support the vison of encouraging stake building on chain. In thanks to our delegators, we are paying out 100% of our curation rewards!
Please note, the day that you delegate is the first that you are included in the rewards pool. Due to this, you will receive your first delegation rewards payout at the close of that payout window (7 days later). After that, you will receive liquid Hive daily!
Unable to delegate, but still interested in helping? I've never been one to ask for reblogs, but in this instance I will. If you believe in me and what we are trying to do, I would be very grateful if you helped to spread the word!
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Please leave them below and I will be happy to answer!
I like the sound of this !
So far I've never powered down any of my HP, although I must admit I nearly wobbled with all the recent turmoil.
I've sent a small delegation - sorry it's not very big at this stage, but I'm already using (probably over-using....) my vote power as fully as I can already !
To my mind, a key thing has to be not just to help existing Hivers, it's to bring in new ones. With any luck, they'll invest some fiat over time, which helps support the price of HIVE and brings in much-needed market capital. For that, I feel that actual earnings are nice but secondary; what's important is to give people the tools to write, and (most especially) the encouragement to do so. I always value comments from people who've done more than just skim-read what I've created !
Thank you so much for the support! 🤗 I would not call that a small delegation at all, it is greatly appreciated!
I can't say I haven't considered powering down before myself, but so far I have pushed the idea away too! We can hang on together and celebrate the choice later hehe 💚
Very well said! For myself, seeing support and excitement surrounding growing my HP motivated me to invest here as well. I think the best thing we can do is make sure there are lots of awesome things to see when new folks visit!
And this! 1000x yes on that, I think this is a FANTASTIC platform for anyone with a passion for writing- I've grown so much from thoughtful comments from fellow writers
Cheers to you 🍻
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Absolutely! 😎 I always feel more inclined to ape into Hive when it is low, because I believe in this platform. 💚
I am hoping that by launching a curation project that exclusively supports those that are growing their stake, we may be able benefit the recovery of Hive price 😄
Thank you for checking out my post and commenting!
Awesome, love stuff like this. Not easy though, Hivers can be so fickle!
Hope you're having a kick-ass summer :D
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You must be killin' it out here!
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Hahahah true story 🤣 But hey, we strive on 😎
Thanks for the love homie 🤗 We're having a pretty good Summer so far- lots of parks and time in the woods, so dang glad to run these cuties around outside vs. in the house 😂
How about you? Hopefully Greg has not brought you any more lizards and is just video chatting like a good cat? 😆💚
Summer is going well. Been down to AZ a couple times to visit my folks. the oldest turned 21 last month and has been hanging around home for a bit before she heads back to Eugene.
The youngest (13 years old) was really pushing for us to make a family trip to the coast this summer, so we are doing that this weekend, so excited, I LOVE the Oregon coast (and the ocean in general)!
Haahahaha, he has not video chatted lately but he a fucking star in our family snapchat group 😝
Stay !PIMP, sister :D
You must be killin' it out here!
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!PIMP
You must be killin' it out here!
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Sounds like a great project from a Hiver who leads with their heart. I wish I had more time to help but I'll be following and supporting how I can.
That means a TON coming from you my friend 🤗💚
I know you have a lot going on, thank you for taking some of your scarce time to drop me a supportive comment! I always get giddy when I hear from you 💗💃
I understand that this is a personal opinion and a statement of personal intentions, each person should and can cure as he/she pleases.
What community? What is it to be in good standing with the community?
Because maybe it is the language barrier, but it can be understood as those who criticize, who do not support projects of others and although their HP is maintained and increased, they do not actively participate in projects.
Well, in my opinion and I have always said it, you can NOT support anything just because it is made by Hivers, not everything done here is good.
To incentivize the Stake of all users in exchange for votes, is to tell them that they must help the currency to increase the price, and to continue creating content with the faith that this will benefit everyone. Is there any certainty that with this the price will go up again? the answer is NO.
I have been here since Steemit and what they are proposing is nothing new, it has already been done, it has already been tried, in fact it is a project like this that leads to the Power-Up days that even HiveBuzz sponsors, it is not what people want and to think that it is functional is not knowing the Hive user, in a platform without advertising, elitist and with such a small amount of users, people create content here for the luck of receiving big votes and quickly accumulate an amount of money that they can withdraw before it goes down, if they did it to create community, to save or for fun, I would understand the motion and fully support it, but it is not the bulk of the population of Hive who think so, what proves it? The large number of accounts that since 2019 to date became inactive after the falls of our currency.
Personally I will contribute, not for the rewards just I understand the genuine interest that exists in improving as a platform, and because I sincerely want to see how you shut my mouth and show me that it only takes the will to change things.
It is great to support those who are powering up and are here for the long haul, I will delegate what I can.
Thank you very much for your support and the encouragement! 💚
I couldn't agree more! From newbies to those who have been around since the beginning, those that are continually building stake are the kind of people that I believe make Hive a beautiful place!
Cheers to you 😄
I love the sound of your approach, supporting those who are here for the long run. They're the people who contribute to the growth of Hive.
I will be checking your curation and following it when I have spare VP
Thank you very much for that! 💗
I found tons of inspiration from HPUD when I first joined, I knew early on due to community unity that I wanted to stick around. I hope to see this kind of thinking spread, it ought to be infectious with how much there is to love here on chain!
Ooooh
Quite nice.
Do I have enough to delegate atm?
Lemme check. I will be involved in this!!!
Thank you for the delegation Seki! It's nice to have you on the squad
^ Us fighting till Hive goes UP (except the Persians lose 🤣)
No problem b!!
Would increase it soon as my posts pay out.
I like to keep my undelegated HP at 100 so I could continue my normal posting activities.
Now, this gives me the motivation to keep staking my Hive, for the past 23 months that I joined Hive, I have never powered down because I know it means supporting the ecosystem for I am here for the long term.
Let's keep making Hive a home for all.
Never powering down and continuing to grow is a huge achievement for sure! I'm overjoyed to hear that this project offers you more motivation to keep growing your account, that's my deepest hope for @hive-up!
An inspired community is a STRONG one 💪💚
Heck yeah 😎
I think this is fantastic @grindan and @yaziris! Just delegated a little for your project. I'll delegate more as I grow my account. I have a feeling this will be something special.
Thank you so much for the support Joe!
💗 Me too, with enough support I really think we have a chance at taking a shot back at the power downs, or
diedrink coffee trying 🤣 🤗!PIMP
You must be killin' it out here!
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You earned 1.000 PIMP for the strong hand.
They're getting a workout and slapped 1/2 possible people today.
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The fact that you support people on here is amazing
Especially the newbies, they need more support because they are new and may find it difficult to navigate here at first
Shucks, thank you!
I was helped a TON here when I joined, I think supporting each other is what it's all about 😎💗
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STOP🙌 Feels great to be hitting milestones again now that I am posting a bit more! Thank you for these motivational notifications HiveBuzz 💚
You're welcome @grindan. Looking forward to you reaching your new target 😅