The is the final of five tutorial/tips posts intended to help people get the most of their experience with the Hive Rocks Initiative.
In the first tutorial, we covered where and how to find good rocks, the second tutorial covered types of paint and what to paint, in the third tutorial we covered protecting your rocks from the weather, and in the fourth tutorial we covered photographing and hiding your rocks.
Of course a major part of the fun of doing all this, is not just painting rocks, but the idea that other people are going to find them.
Painted rocks show up in many different places. Sometimes they even grow on trees!
Onwards! So You Found a "Hive Rock?"
So perhaps you find yourself here, reading these words, because you followed the link written on the back other ”Hive Rock.”
If so, congratulations! And welcome to our community!
If you are already familiar with Hive, and have an account here, you can skip the next paragraph and go directly to the ”Share Your Find” section, below.
On the other hand, if Hive is a completely new idea for you, let us offer a brief introduction:
One of my own painted stones, this one dating back to 2013
Welcome to Hive!
In the most basic sense, Hive is a social content platform not unlike most others. You can blog here, share recipes here, share your photography here, play games here, share your art here, create videos here and so forth and so on.
What makes Hive different Is that it is ”decentralized.” Meaning that it is not “owned” by a single company, but instead is essentially operated by its ”users.” But what makes Hive truly unique is the fact that users are rewarded for the content they share!
You may be familiar with ”cryptocurrency” like Bitcoin, and you may also have heard of ”blockchains” and that is what lies behind the scenes at Hive.
A painted rock spotted in the recess by the hose bib, on the side of a park building
Welcome to Hive Rocks!
The painted rock you now hold in your hand there's also an invitation for you to join our growing community! Right now, you're able to read this post and you can explore the community freely, but in order to interact and engage with the community, we would like to suggest that you create an account and become part of our extended family!
And just in case you were thinking otherwise, no we're not some newfangled flash-in-the-pan; Hive has been around since mid-2016, and has grown to more than 2.2 million accounts!
If you follow this link, there are some simple instructions to get started!
This one almost looks like an old Norse or Viking design!
Share Your Find!
Congratulations on finding a Hive Rock, and on finding your way to the Hive Rocks community on Hive!
Ideally, what we would like for you to do, is to take a picture of your rock then share it in a brief post to this community.
Because a major part of what we do within the creative community on Hive is support each other's work, we recommend that when you create your post you make the person who created your rock (their ID should also be on the back of the rock) a ”beneficiary” in the rewards your post will generate, as a thank you for their creative efforts on behalf of the community. We like to suggest 50%, but that’s entirely up to you!
Sometimes, painted rocks are left out in the open, on driftwood stumps by the ocean
Keep it… or Set it Free?
People often ask us whether they get to keep the Hive Rocks they find.
Honestly, that's entirely up to you. However, part of the fun of a community rock painting project is to see to what extent we can make our painted rocks travel around the world. So unless you are really attached to your newly found rock, we would like to suggest that you re-hide it somewhere (after taking pictures of it) so someone else can find it.
Naturally, you're welcome to make a post here to let people know that a rock has been hidden and is ready to be found! Just follow the guidelines found in tutorial #4: Hiding your Hive Rocks.
Why not create some painted rocks of your own and be part of the fun?
Create Your Own Hive Rocks!
Even better yet, why not paint some rocks of your own hide them, and help our community grow even further!
We're a pretty friendly bunch, and community rock painting projects exist all over the world... ours is one of the very few truly global groups.
It's also a great way to combine your unique creativity with online social blogging and an physical life activity. And we think that's pretty cool!
Thanks for joining us on this community building journey!
Hive Rocks Tutorial 5: Created 2021-12-28; Last update 2021-12-28
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