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This is the #111th edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:
Hive
- Splinterlands
- HBD Marketing
- Mind-Blowing Story
- BlueSky Posh
- AI21
- Incredible Rewards
- 3Speak
- Vaultec
- Apis Hive
- Inleo
- SEO
Not-Crypto (this week)
- Elon Musk / OpenAI
Week on Hive
18 of 35 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
Splinterlands SPS Validator Network Goes Live! And Other Updates...
The SPS Validator Network -- or sometimes called the Splinterlands or the SPS chain -- is a sidechain of Hive, where for now, the SPS token and operations reside, governed by a DPoS consensus protocol. Node operators receive rewards either by being voted high in the validators ranking, or by holding one or more LICENSE tokens and staking them on their running nodes. The majority of the rewards (90%) go to validators based on their staked LICENSE tokens, but they will likely be distributed among many more nodes than ranking rewards. At least that was the original plan as laid out in the whitepaper.
The plan also is to migrate to the Validator Network, over time, other in-game assets like DEC, the cards, packs, land, etc. opening the possibility that the entire or most game assets to be on this chain. In a distant future, it is possible the gameplay itself might run on the nodes, but this is already in the speculation territory.
Other Updates
Splinterlands also rolled out this week a revamped team creation screen and also a minimizable matchmaking screen.
Also, as a precursor to Survival Mode, the option to create sets was included in the interface. I wrote about all of them more at large here. You can check out all the updates from this week from their release notes.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
HBD... Marketing with Alejandra Guajardo
@missbitcoin-sv is making some great clips showing how HBD can be used in the real world. Hopefully, they will get shared and seen, and will attract people interested in using HBD as a transactional coin.
Here are some examples:
- this is my favorite, because the guy acts really reticent, then surprised and interested in HBD (she pays for rent with HBD)
- here she cashes out USD via a BTC ATM from HBD (probably HBD -> v4v.app -> Lightning -> BTC ATM Lightning -> USD)
- another clip about the Hive debit card
- and how can this not be included? Onboarding a new business to Distriator.
Opening and Listing Your Own Supermarket with Distriator. How's that for the Next Level Marketing?
@fokusnow is a really ingenious guy. Since I follow him, he onboarded a number of businesses to Distriator in the city of Aba in Nigeria, then he started a campaign and creating some interesting marketing materials for HBD that can be placed at the enrolled businesses or close-by, and now, after some time, he comes out with another mind-blowing project.
He said he had a big office space. Maybe I missed it in his post, but I heard the @coldbeetrootsoup guys say he opened that business with earnings from Hive in the past, which is even more spectacular.
Now, he had the idea to convert a big part of that office space into a general store or supermarket, but adding some chairs too to allow customers to sit and get informed about Distriator and its cashback, or to pay with it. Obviously, he enrolled his "Happy Customer Supermarket" to Distriator.
How's that for next level marketing? Check this out!
Hive Posh Goes to BlueSky
BlueSky Posh will be exactly like Twitter Posh, before Elon Musk took over, the announcement says. Twitter Posh was a pretty big thing for Hive, let's hope BlueSky Posh has the same success.
This is How a Business Should Join Distriator: with a Real Intro Post on Hive!
An Italian restaurant in Luxembourg called AI21 (what a name, huh?), had an intro post created on Hive, wanting to be the 2nd restaurant in Luxembourg accepting bitcoin and HBD. It is already listed in Distriator.
Incredible Rewards for Sharing Short Content Made For You About Hive
The @coldbeetrootsoup guys share how easy it is to make money on Hive, even using content made by others. @hive-echo made it easier for you and created a clip from their podcast.
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
3Speak: On-Device Encoding
From my understanding from the announcement, this means 3Speak will encode videos on the device of the uploader going forward, instead of using encoding nodes. This is likely to be a much quicker and smoother process.
Vaultec Interviews. VSC Coming Mid-March.
@vaultec was invited at Money on Chain, talking with @jthomasewsky. Last week I mentioned it, but it hadn't happened at that time, it was coming. This is the interview, for those interested.
He was also invited by @ecoinstant at Deep Web3 Secrets (still listening to it while writing this, but so far it's worth listening to it).
Apis Hive: Grow your Hive Account through Gamification and More
A new interesting gamification project has just started called Apis Hive, to help small accounts grow. I later found out this is the project of @livinguktaiwan, who was invited to the Hive Humpday Hangout Show by @ph1102. I didn't have the time to listen to yet, but like always, I'll catch up eventually.
Multilanguage Support on Inleo
Inleo added multilanguage support on their platform powered by AI (from my understanding). Besides the usual languages with many speakers worldwide, they took a more playful approach, and introduced something like High-Valyrian, Klingon, Elvish, and even Pirate language. 😀
This is the announcement for the Spanish community.
Thoughts About SEO of Posts and Articles on Hive
@louis88 had some interesting thoughts about the SEO of articles or blog posts on Hive. Check this out.
Week in the Crypto World
Elon Musk-Led Group Bids For the For-Profit Side of OpenAI for $97.4 Billion
This is not crypto-related, but I can't help myself. Or rather, it doesn't have direct crypto implications at this time, but could/would have in the future, since crypto and AI are related domains.
Tests show Grok 3 is currently the top dog in the AI world. Elon Musk over-hypes this and says no one will catch them again, based on their recent sharp growth compared to competition and superior compute power they have at this time in their data center.
So, why does he want to to buy OpenAI for a little over 97bn dollars, other than to make a point? The offer got rejected, for now. Just out of curiosity, how would such an offer be acceptable if OpenAI is involved in a project where 500bn would be spent to build it. Of course, an offer like that could be accepted if one of the backers from that deal doesn't have the funds, like Elon Musk has been saying from the beginning. That may be why Sam Altman is in a hurry to increase the voting power of the non-profit board (which he leads) onto OpenAI's entire business. Interesting war story... Read more.
I don't like either of them... They both have hidden agendas, and more power to either of them is not good.
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