HIVE is a huge improvement over the Former Network!
I know it's only a few months old but in that time I have not seen a "Mouthpiece" representative of this [BLOCK] coming on to make false promises or outright LIE to the user base. The Former Network had TWO really obnoxious examples this, one named Ned the other named Justin. So far on HIVE however, I have just seen the community coming together to construct a strong and resistant network for simple folk like myself to use.
Now don't get me wrong, the Former Network is where I got my start and where I began constructing my infamous Cryptographic Novel. But HIVE is turning out to be that ACTUAL place I was dreaming about when I began my work several years ago. A simple network where a group of folk could get together regularly to communicate and cooperate their ideas and energies in such a way as to avoid friction filled processes that tend to eat up all the good efforts. I was ultimately just looking years ago for a way to do Meet Ups without using all the ridiculous websites and email identities. THIS was my way of establishing a "Book Club" for my own fan base and topics.
The Former Network has been a good 4 year BETA sandbox to learn and earn while entertaining ourselves as users in a whole new paradigm of interactivity. But the Former Network had egregious setbacks from the beginning which meant that it would never succeed in being the shining beacon of hope on the hill that I was counting on for my simple, folky book club. HIVE now comes to pick up where the other fell short.
Highly Individualized Virtual Edu-tainment, is a great starting point for what I had PLANned in the beginning, which was to write a book and then utilized THAT BOOK as the basis for Meet Ups and Point Of Sale functionality. Rather than staying saddled to the Former Network, new Re-AIDers can secure their own identity and Key on THIS new chain and use HIVE for these functions.
As of today, I have secured a small retail TEA shop in the area to begin what I call a T'HIVE. A place where FANS of my award winning Cryptofiction can gather both physically or Virtually and cooperate on some development or operation. Mainly I am just interested in promoting the sales of my little TEA shop through a cooperation of users who will teach each other the ins and outs of using such an elegantly simple Blockchain. But as long as there is cooperation then there should be little problem in screening good users who want to achieve more with their ID and Value... I call these folk, The CRYPTOFACTION
With HIVE, and especially with T'HIVEs, my Cryptofaction will be able to do just about anything they can imagine. So long as everyone involved is responsible for their OWN Identity and Operations. Perhaps some enterprising Queens will step up to BEE the role models. I can already see how quickly THIS cooperating will be at building not only the TEA Shop, but will also likely create a News Outlet, a Media Network, a Political Party, and will likely absorb a famous Hashtag or three simply on principle alone. Time will tell if this approach will build up the way I expect but for now I feel a great achievement in making it THIS far... so far.
Onwards and Upwards!
~Frank