Today, @littlescribe posted a question prompted from some comments on a post, and I told her to make it a post to the community because its brought about several thought provoking questions about what Hive is/should/could/might be.
We both wanted to hear from the community with regards to her three specific questions so please go leave a response of your own on @littlescribe 's post here: "Pay-to-play vs. Proof-of-work -- is this way gone and done with?"
I wrote a long form comment reply and decided I wanted to put it up as a post of it's own to continue the conversation adjacent to Scribey's and because I wanted to keep my own answer on my blog where I could find it easier later as well. Here it is:
So.. fundamentally this is a blockchain at it's core. Everything else is added on ecosystem to try and give the block chain, and in turn it's associated crypto currencies and tokens some kind of human determined, consensus driven, agreed upon real world value.
With that in mind,
For this blockchain, we have a white paper indicating it is based on two things, proof of stake and proof of brain. They are both used within 2 pages of the opening of the white paper to describe the place. The general take I get, is proof-of-stake drives governance, and proof-of-brain drives rewards.
Are these mutually inclusive or mutually exclusive? Does one begat the other and vice versa?
I think its debatable either way and I could take either sides of the argument. Some chains are about user engagement, some are about recording the shipping manifests of freight haulers. They are not the same. If you are about engagement, then rewarding creators and engagement seems like the best way to grow. YouTube for example.
But if you are about logging transactions immutably as your core functionality, then a chain based Quickbooks would be your kinda thing or a chain like bitcoin. One is about the quality of content and viewer stickness (curation) - youtube - and rewards accordingly with the rev share. One is about reliability and network stability and accuracy (fakebooks, bitcoin), of most importance to the largest stakeholders, and thus they need control of it to ensure their own viability - the chain based accounting app examples, small business has less at stake than big business.
HERE?
I am pretty sure the intention was a new world for both, and these priorities seem to get twisted big time. And are a lot of the reason big expensive marketing plans that are basically poorly defined for EITHER use case have been mostly tilting at windmills in their efforts and outcomes.
And it's why I made my goofy little, but very pointed point-making, contest about the AI advertising. It wasn't about AI, it was about how to create messages that put us forth in a good light for zero cost, and encouraging the community we do have to go out and do more of it for frigging free.
In my opinion, Good Ideas don't have to sell themselves. They sell themselves.
So, back to the spirit of your questions Scribey.
To me, here, on Hive, engagement with each other and promotion of the brightest and most creative among us, is most important. It's a busy world. There's billions of things vying for your attention, millions of copycat card games to play, thousands of people to talk to in niches that union set your own almost precisely.
With that happening, we have to position ourselves as a quality outlet and place to choose to spend your time.
We know you have a choice of airlines to fly, and we're really pleased you chose SouthWest because we are affordable, and entertaining, as opposed to Spirit, which is cheap and broken and doesn't care about your comfort.
We're in a position to still salvage what's left of this place and turn it back "on". But it's up to all of us, and if we aren't rewarding the most passionate and brightest, then as many have over the years already, they will continue to leave to seek greener pastures.
Maybe thats fine with the PoS crowd, but it seems self defeating to not be more meritorious. So yes, I think engagement should be a more utilized metric than it currently is, and it is, just not as much as wallet sizes are.
Is a rich idiots vote on things more valuable than that of a poor genius?
For a guide to how that works in more detail, look what global politicians have done to their countries and how many do NOT have actual geniuses, but who had no money, winning elections... and the state of the world that created for us all.
Sometimes a rich genius chimes in, an Elon type, truthing to the other power, but then again for every one of those there seems to be 10 corrupt, colluding, world destroyers to contend with.
So pollinate the hive far and wide. Make honey for each other with engagement on each others posts, It may not get you to trending, but every post vote, every comment vote, every chance you get to illuminate the proof-of-brains, do it. Do more of it. Raise engaging voices. Engage them back. We can do it by sheer force and inertia.
The search engines will see us, let's put on our best outfit for that school picture.
And go out there and storm area 51 with the news about Hive. Fill it with creators that make quality content, bring them to the light and then bring them to light, they can't stop us all.
So, what's your buzz on this topic, Hive?
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