I have no idea who came up with this name, but it seems that this might be a problem to come.
Wait, what?
Seems that a "blockchain mining" company is going after the Hive community for using the name. But who exactly can they go after in a legal case like this? The core devs behind HF23? DApps? Witnesses like me? Or the entire Hive userbase? 🤔
The company is named "Hive Blockchain Technologies" but they do not have a blockchain or even a token.
There are many other Hives too
This is not the only entity that is using the Hive name. Duckduckgoing around, I can list several of them below that has way higher popularity than the mining company:
Apache Hive
Hive.com project management
Hive Home
Hive.co email marketing
Hive.co.uk store
Leave a comment below of what you think about this.
As a lawyer I can assure you that their claim is completely baseless.
"Hive" is a common english word and can't be trademarked, nor have they.
The Hive blockchain does not offer a competing service to these guys so they have no legal basis to complain.
Just ignore them.
You ever considered the value of running for a witness as a lawyer? If you take steem for payment i would be happy to pay you for any of my american affairs as a Canadian.
Actually I have been thinking of offering legal type services for payment in Hive. I've created the account @hive.lawyer but have to work things out.
Did you make it oncthebsteem chain by accident?
Thanks for alerting me. I was using hive.invite to test it and forgot the final step of creating the account.
You just log in essentially same keys, I'll be following.
It would be so cool if I could just send you a private memo and give you the key so you could unencrypt my private details about any case matters we could use this all on the blockchain without needing cell phones or any utilities provided by the state.
You can already send encrypted memos on Hive. You can also post encrypted data to the blockchain. So this is already doable.
Zcash would allow for a higher level of privacy with the sheilded addresses.
I agree, they can't be going after every single one of them that I listed. The trademark may not be valid at all.
The issue is not the use of the single word "hive", rather it is the use of the combination of the words "hive" and "blockchain" with both entities using the Internet as their primary means of communicating with customers or users.
That is not the basis of any legal claim. They don't have a registered trademark and have no case for unregistered trademark infringement or passing off because the services they provide are completely different from those our HIVE blockchain provides.
Never heard about them. Did anybody sue Apple Inc because Apple is such a common used name? // gotta be hard to sue without an Inc. You only can lower the reputation of the network. But this mining cooperation has no big reach i think.
Makes sense. We're not a corporation at all, just a community...
I own a few stocks on hive and your right they are not a crypto coin or blockchain but a company for mining.
I don't see why they have any issue with this
All press is good press 😉
I thought the same thing waking up, even if they had a case just change the name slightly and you're ok.
Name change isn't technically too difficult, it's doable
As far as I'm aware, as others have mentioned here:
I don't know. I'm not too worried about it honestly. I'm focused on building better shit ;^)
Now more people know them, so it is even a win for them!
This was apparent before the hard fork and many asked the question before hand.
Eheh let's talk about it. More publicity
I have the popcorn out, let them try, if I incure damages to my title PhusionPhil I will be invoicing the Hive Mining company for $100 an hour minimum as of the second I have any reduction in my quality of living due to their frivolous use of any courts time with such a stupid accusation.
I bet this mining company is already deleting public posts realizing how stupid they real are, theres a 0% chance id trust them as an investment platform if they are so broke they are suing to cover losses.
Maybe I should get access to information on their public company and start a smear campaign that goes eye for an eye with their shitty idea of law.
id downvote this but it does seem you care about Hive so i will leave this here.
I will give you my witnesses vote as well because I believe in your intentions just do not listen to this stupidity or I may retract that vote if you become the victim of fear mongering. this is a brave and bold move to make Hive and id like to see anyone try to stop us.
I bought stock in that company a few years back.. lol. Shortly after the price of BTC crashed and so did the stock. Im currently underwater with the stock but I think the idea of buying miners and reinvesting that money in more miners on a massive scale may pay off one day.
Heres their Youtube channel they talk about how they are doing there.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB12hDmAamGSzoKPJTG0syQ
Its the only publicly traded crypto mining company I know of.. It is funny the same name was chosen as an existing blockchain company.