The News
The deranged antics of Madam President and Ms Musk (it seems pronouns do not matter these days) are not doing much for crypto. They may only think in terms of profit and not care about the freedom aspects. I am sure some people will buy more $HIVE as powering up increases your influence and what you can earn.
There was a bit of a kerfuffle about how InLeo handles keys. They have done some updates, but such issues need to be discussed. InLeo and peakd offer various ways to log in. Some of these may require you to enter your actual key into the site and that does have some risks that they need to minimise. This issue affected their own authentication system. It is better to use Hive Keychain if you can, but that requires some user education. Security is hard and we need to be able to trust the apps we use.
If you suspect that your keys may have been compromised then you should change them. Remember to keep a secure backup.
There was also a DDOS attack on InLeo. This is likely to become more common and sites may need to pay for services to protect themselves. I saw this week that attackers used a massive botnet of compromised online cameras to attack sites to hold them to ransom.
Friday Follows
- @risingstargame had some updates. The rankings table now depends much more on how many unique cards you have so I went up a lot. The new Pawn Shop encourages you to offload duplicate cards to get more uniques.
- @ravenmus1c is raising money to help an animal shelter. Your votes can help or you can buy some NFTs.
- @tdctunes has a new album that is part of a multi-media collaboration involving some Hivers. He is one of several musicians I have seen featuring a link to their Hive profile on their own site. This is a good way to bring more people to Hive so they can see the possibilities.
- @diggndeeper.com has created a Wordpress plugin that integrates with Hive.
- @hivedatacenter are offering free hosting for small Hive projects.
The Dog House
This is not really a Hive thing, but a lot of us started off on the old 'S' chain. That has seen very little development since the fork, but they just did an update that blocks some specific accounts from voting. That goes against the principles of blockchain as it could be applied to anyone they fall out with. Years ago they blacklisted various accounts, including mine, so that they show no posts or comments. I had already done an update so that all my old posts directed people to Hive that has the complete archive.
The 'legacy crapchain' (that shall not be named) is centralised and not to be trusted. Hive has its issues, but is operating as it should. I believe that some accounts have been 'censored' due to legal takedown orders for sharing copyright material, but I have not checked on that recently. The posts should still be on the blockchain and anyone could set up a site that unblocks them if they want. The Hive code is all open source. You could ignore downvotes if you wanted to make posts visible regardless. I am not aware that anyone has done this yet.
I should not have to educate Hivers on which is the better chain, but some people may have friends that still use the old one.
The End
How are you feeling about the state of Hive right now? Do you worry about the price or do you think that we can plough on through the bad times and come out stronger? I find this platform more social and enjoyable than others I have used, so I will stick around regardless.
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