The News

Happy Friday! I hope the year is going well for you all so far. 'Interesting times' are ahead, but we have to stay positive. $HIVE had a good start by opening up a big gap from the 'legacy crapcoin'. It has been getting close to the top 300 and ought to be much higher.

I saw this on the Korean Upbit exchange being hit with penalties for not vetting users properly. A lot of $HIVE gets traded there, but we are seeing good volume elsewhere.

Friday Follows

I have seen a few people come back to Hive recently and some will get featured in these posts. I expect the improved price was a factor for some of them. We need active users creating compelling content and interacting with others. This is why I post about people I find interesting. Your interests are likely to be different, so talk about your favourites. We should not act only in our personal interest.

• @captaindingus posted about Splinterlands and how some people just take from Hive. As he says, the public blockchain lets us see how others act. You are free to judge them if you so wish.
• Iranian musician @davidfar is back to share some tunes with us. I like that he goes into detail about the production side.
• There is also more music from the US via @breakoutthecrazy who have been playing live with a cool guitarist.
• I had to laugh when @michaelreischer asked some AI about the top Hivers and my name was included.
• I love to see creative people on Hive collaborating and there is a fun guitar battle from @harbiter and @sunsethunter.
• We have lots of comics on Hive that I enjoy. Some Hivers even get theirs printed. @arseniclullaby has a lot of experience of that industry and gives some insight into issues with how comics get distributed.
• I have been enjoying seeing the vintage computers that @makerhacks has. I got into computers during the first boom in home computing when there were lots of competing systems. I got to play with some of them back then, but I sold mine long ago.

The Dog House

It is inevitable that people will try to exploit Hive as there is money to be made. It is supposed to be about people getting rewarded for good content, but we know it is not perfect. It has various defences, but these will get tested by attackers. @pravesh0 reported on a recent case that came to light when an attempt was made to create a fake proposal. If this had been voted through then they would have had some daily income from it.

From what I understand someone created lots of accounts. You can do that if you have enough HP, but some of the onboarding sites can allow you to do it for free. They then accumulated points in Ecency that you get for being active. If you get enough then you can pay for some delegation. Even though thousands of accounts were involved they came nowhere near getting the proposal approved. It is not supposed to be easy and even some established projects struggle to get support.

Giving away anything for free does open up opportunities for abuse, so you may need extra limitations. I know in @risingstargame there are checks that people are not running multiple accounts. Ecency could set thresholds for things like reputation as that can take some work to build up and can be reduced with downvotes if abuse is seen. I am sure that measures with be taken for this case. Whoever did it may have messed up as the community is more aware of the risks now.

The Hive blockchain itself has other protections against people who try to break it. This piece by @andablackwidow goes into depth about this. I did not understand it all, but it is good that others are working on it. As Hive grows it becomes a bigger target. We have seen denial of service attacks happen before.

The End

I continue to be excited about Hive. I have been active here since 2016 and have visited most days as it is fun for me. I am finding some other platforms less appealing these days and would love the cool people I follow there to move over. We need a good community to make that more likely.

As usual I am boosting comment rewards with @commentrewarder on this post. Lazy comments get nothing.

Hive five!

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