Just looking at your own metrics on your website there for 2024. They look a bit all over the place but I know it is a work in progress . Venezuela, which is a restricted country for many crypto companies that perform airdrops because of corruption, received 254,733.75 HBD in 2024. I think there is a naivety here that these funds are being used for legitimate projects. Would you not think it is a bit fishy because most of the Hive Community does?
I would say there is a little bit of "Wald's insight" into the feedback received as one of them was a top 5 recipient.
Why is there so many funded projects linked to the Threespeak Community?
Is this a coincidence is it that most of the recipients make video content on Threespeak?? I have been on Hive / Steem for a long time now and I was surprised how many users I didn't know who received funduing. I jump onto Threespeak and do a quick scroll and lone and behold, they are all there! The funding just seems a bit skewed to these users rather than the broader Hive userbase. Yes they all appear on Hive but it surprised me a little bit. Then I look at the founding fathers and it all starts to make sense.
Also who is behind @qmwallet? No explanations, No nothing but received a vast amount of funding in 2024. The lack of transparency is not good for optics. The only explanation in the Valueplan wallet is "LATAM Water project linked to Community Wells Project".
Can you not make a rule that if anyone receives more than ANY funding they should be obliged to write a post about it and share it on socials. Nothing worse than paying 25,000 HBD for a conference and one cannot find any evidence that it even went ahead. Well done to the rally car driver for posting about all their races. It leads me to believe that they have nothing to hide and they are doing their best for the Community so I tend to believe they are good even if they are the highest funded recipients.
You say Valueplan funding does not employ people and the users being funded are all voluntary. You need to wake up here. People are not doing these events out of the good of their health for Hive. People are doing this as a full time job. The GYM Street Work Out Founder is one of them and this was clarified by a number of his former colleagues. Disgruntled as they are , they provide a valuable insight into what is going on. The fact that they are very very disgruntled means there is large sums of money involved and with money comes greed and loathing, The conference presenter is another. I am sure there are more. It just looks like these people are living very well from Hive Community in developing countries. You can live well on 100,000 HBD in Europe but you can live like a king or queen for 100,000 HBD in Venezuela. All I get back is that Venezuela is difficult. Even more proof to stay well clear. No wonder all their friends are branching out into projects like bike racing and motor racing. It is clear that Valueplan is a soft touch. Easy money. I don't blame them in fairness. Valueplan needs a DOGE like audit and fast before our decentralised Community of 6 people whittle away another million in HBD this year.
You say Valueplan was set up because of timing issues for some projects. The DHF takes too long as a process. My opinion is that time should never be an issue. The opportunity has to be applied for in plenty of time. If it is too late then it is not Valueplan's fault. It is the person that wants to be funded. Come back next year earlier you dosser so we can do the a timely analysis and review and think about the funding. Anything that is jumped into off the bat is a recipe for disaster. There should be a certain budget set out for some projects and if they go over it then tough luck. That's the budget. It might make the recipients think twice. That's how much they get. Otherwise you are looking at a blackhole and where does it stop.
And finally. How come Victor's (from GYM Street Workout) mountain bike needs so much repairing & maintenance?? It's two wheels, a frame and a chain. He must be always falling off it. Can you not find a better rider? Or how about just buy him a mountain bike every year and send him on his way. It would cost us alot less than your regular maintenance payments for the bike. Most semi pros I know in cycling mend their own bike. I would be interesting to see the repair receipts. They would give us a right giggle.
Yeah its a work in progress. The site takes info out of the memos but at times the memos have sub-names instead of locations or city names there in the second field. Going forward it'll be easier to work with as they're being standardized more and more and probably soon they'll end up with custom_json data accompanying them.
People aren't doing this as a full-time job. They have their own job. The guy who runs SWC has a job, so does everyone else. Most people who meet any of the volunteers don't get to know them that well. The guy who does motorcycle racing owns a coffee factory and was a professional racer ahead of that. The bike racer is a full-time student, his parents work. Another person inherited properties. Someone else runs two businesses. It would be impossible for any of these individuals to come from a background of joblessness and poverty and contribute the way they do. I don't know where you're from, UK from what I can guess by your insults I had to look up, but up here in Canada the gov't subsidized unemployed can't just pick up and do any project, you need project management skills, networking skills from experience, be able to talk to vendors, have an education. Just think of it realistically. Most people with their best intentions can't even present to a small group. They can't organize anything.
The mountain bike takes a lot of damage every race. It's the same as the rally car, its heavy impact. Any rider would have the same. We've got receipts for parts and the costs are all online, they're universal parts that go for the same in every country. We save money by fixing the bike instead of buying a new one.
Anyways, the DHF needs strong frontend tools not only to negate the need for intermediaries like VP but to optimize every proposal that touches it. What I hope to see is others taking the VP site code and enhancing it. The site wasn't made to sit there, same with the account creation tool. There's a repo on Gitlab for marketing that needs more project management templates. All of this can also be done on the chain and it's not done.
If you're this concerned pick a chat, message me, and get involved.
Edit: Missed a few of your points. Qmwallet is just the cold wallet, updates are on @crazy.men and on LinkedIn. It hasn't been publicized yet but so far there's a lot of attention from NGOs. Water projects in South America aren't that common so it's already getting a lot of attention.
Post rule: Yes I can do that, not a problem. There are already posts but what we'll do is have an account to gather them all that's not VP.
3Speak: It's only because its our only video platform. Right now YT is the prime social media and 3S is our YT. There's nothing really behind the promotions skewing towards it other than it's a great video solution and people like making videos.
VZ in general: We are very careful with regulations. We don't hire local businesses and we are not doing any more conferences there except maybe a minor one here or there. It's a difficult country to operate with but the people are very welcoming to crypto. South America is generally good for it. This year we're focusing more on branching out to different countries.