The Hivebuzz argument, of mine, only involved them. They stuck their badges over my heading in my home pages. I used an ad blocker to get rid of them and wrote them a stinker. About half a year ago I told thme to leave me alone and I do not want to be part of their badge nonsense (the owner had used his Rep to attack me because he disagreed with my warnings about ...to be honest, I can no longer recall what it was, but I had felt I had supported him and always upvoted his notifications about my badges...
Poshbot: I do not like the bot, but only because I do not like the person who created it. He is part of the same group who became very wealthy in Steemit but never, that I know of, helped any new posters. However, poshbot is providing a service for those who have an acocunt on Twit, so I do not agree, in prinicple, with them being attacked. Having taken a deeper look at their account, it seems something else happened, for they have jumped up into the mid0fifties, which should be impossible, from zero to fifty six within a day would qualify as a Dominion fake...unlss the Rep was just re-instated or there had been a glitch in the code. I do not know and to be honest, do not care; I did what my principles demanded of me at that time and that is enough.
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As for the witnesses communicating with us, when they want something, then it is oh so easy for them to contact each and every one of us. A simple bot does it for them. It seems the bot does not work that well if there is no direct gain for them... (makes me think of the olden feudal times, how often did the Manor bother to communicate with their tenant serfs? The funny (odd) thing is that I see more communication and gelpfulness on Steemit!!! I thought they were going to censor and crash the coin...but they are at the same level as the Hive coin.
Your comment about the Bitcoin price, it confused me. Is the Hive coin in some way connected? For instance, in 2017 the Steemit was connected and went from $1 to $14 when Bitcoin rose sharply. Yet now, Bitcoin is nearly at $19,000 and Hive is still at $0.15c. I agree, powering down for 15c is ot worth it.
I recently made a smallish investment in a Bitcoin trading program and my investment has much more than doubled over three and a half months ($200 to $460). Being a pensioner, I could not make a decent sized investment, but every bit helps. It gives, more or less, a return of 10% per month, which measn my monethly goes from $20 to $45 ) I will not touch it until I am earning over a thousand.... :)
I have stopped posting because I was about to strt posting Book 13 w, but after I reread and did some proofing, I decided to increase it from 900 pages to 1,000. I am a third of the way on achieving my target...
Nice chatting and...try making your own scones - I do and I love eating them without paying stupid prices for them.
I do bake although my wife isn't happy about it bc I end up buying more flour etc than I bake. I think all the crypto coins profited from the last Bitcoin rise but that was artificially created by speculators. I powered down and took advantage of it but right now I noticed the fees on Blocktrades were very high to transfer Hive dollars to Bitcoin - a supply and demand problem with only a limited amount of trades going through so I refrained from powering down my Hive power. Your analysis of the Hive community was amazing - I exist in a bubble and have no idea what poshbot, Hivebuzz or the witnesses are up to, nor do I care. I try to keep my head down bc some of my friends got burned that way - particularly @slowwalker and @sweetsssj - I just want a place to post my stuff and earn a modest return to pay for my on-line expenses and occasional small extravagances like a new laptop, security cameras and whatever other tech toys I would not usually spend money to buy.