This is a challenge ... @guiltyparties, I would like you to speak to this ... while it is wonderful that Valueplan supports LIFE ITSELF in Ghana and Venezuela, it is disconcerting but hard to avoid the conclusion that @valueplan is seeking the European market while using the Global South for promotional purposes only, because
"It is a misconception that VP is designed to make people's lives better in various locations. While its excellent that we can do this while promoting Hive, this is not its purpose. Any social impact activities or activities where a social impact is possible are used for promotional purposes."
I noticed in this proposal and have read all 21 posts ... that rally car and beautiful blond women up front, and darker-skinned people further down. A picture is worth a thousand words ... the placement of pictures, once that becomes a pattern, reveals priorities, and we actually can double-check this by the proposal itself:
What do we mean when we speak of quality of the audience? We recognize that Hive is not the right solution for everyone. It is best for individuals who are already financially stable, literate, have an interest in technology, have a business perhaps, and are able to positively contribute to the ecosystem.
and that's just to the half-year, massively dwarfing investment in Hivefest, boreholes, and Hive Sucre. Now no less a Person than Jesus Christ said this:We also can get this perception by looking at Valueplan's 2023 half-year report, in the absence of this year's report: https://peakd.com/valueplan/@valueplan/value-plan-half-year-review. The math there is simple. Under Transactions, current to June 20, 2023, one only needs to add up what was spent on the rally car versus any other category, and understand that fast cars and blondes are a higher priority than anything else. For just one example: Hivefest Mexico cost 32,800 HBD. The first tranche -- just the first tranche -- of money for that car, and its activities in Europe, cost 31,774.220 HBD. There are five such tranches totaling around 86,000 HBD,
Where a man's treasure is, there shall his heart be also.
This is generally true of projects also, and suggests that Valueplan does not assign the highest value to the hardest-working people that work with it, who have been deprived of fiat means of solving their problems through no fault of their own, but found hope in Hive -- this suggests those who run Valueplan do not see them as quality although those people have kept Hive noticeable and at the forefront of crypto adoption through this long bear. Now, this could be a misconception ... but it needs clearing up. The presence of a 2024 half-year report with better balanced priorities would have helped, but we can only work with the 21 posts available to work out what Valueplan values the most.
Meanwhile, the Chainalysis data for 2024 says that the priorities should be exactly reversed: the Global East and South of the world should be first, and Europe, because of its unwillingness to adopt in general (Ukraine, Russia, and the UK being the exceptions in the top 20) should be last. Again, I post the global data for 2024. https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-global-crypto-adoption-index/ I also have gently invited @valueplan to share information that what it is doing is bucking the trends in Europe and spurring adoption. That is still not forthcoming. The fact is noted.
So, here we have a challenge ... the appearance, at least, that Valueplan has spent the bulk of the community money prioritizing Europeans who are not interested in crypto right now, while openly proposing that Africans and Latin Americans and who are making Hive shine are not the quality audience, because AGAIN, this is who your proposal says Hive is best for:
It is best for individuals who are already financially stable, literate, have an interest in technology, have a business perhaps, and are able to positively contribute to the ecosystem.
Actual data on who is making of the most of Hive, through this bear, also defies that statement. Chainalysis data across crypto likewise defies that. The true quality audiences for crypto are where people are moving toward the things we Europeans and North Americans too often take for granted. We see that on Hive. We see that across crypto. India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Venezuela, Brazil, the Philippines, Vietnam ... leaders in crypto in the world, and also notably here on Hive.
By the way, need I say why those countries are poorer while Europe is richer, and why more financially stable individuals therefore live in Europe? I trust that I need not, since we expect that Valueplan is headed up by highly literate individuals aware of the past 500 years of history, and we expect that, confronted with actual data on where crypto is being adopted, Valueplan understands where it should be spending Hive's money in 2025. Most of Europe is comfortable enough not to be interested. We see that on Hive. We see that in the Chainalysis data. The quality individuals when it comes to crypto adoption, 2.5 billion potential crypto users being accounted for in the top three nations alone, are primarily outside of Europe. That's not "critical race theory." That's just what the data says ... and at a $1,250,000 a year run rate, we expect that Valueplan can and will work with the best data available to promote Hive.