Double Millionaire

Like most people here I have been accumulating various tokens on Hive Engine. I do sell some, but I tend to keep those that could be useful. I have had a million Starbits from Rising Star for a while as that gives me access to a special mission. Today I reached a million SPORTS. I vote up a lot of running posts, so that will help those. Those two coins are at very similar values.

The wallet in LeoFinance is handy as it shows total value including staked, whilst Hive Engine only shows the value of liquid funds.

Some people may not have twigged that you can sort any column on Hive Engine by clicking just above it. That can be handy to see what you have most of or which are up and down.

Building Bridges

I have long done #Tsudoscience posts with my thoughts on the state of the platform I am posting on. That started on Tsu before Steem came along.

I have been thinking a lot about the lack of growth in the Hive active users. I keep an eye on the stats from @arcange. Each day we may gain hundreds of new accounts, but few seem to turn into really active users. The numbers of minnows, dolphins and whales have dropped considerably since the split from Steem. My @TenKMinnows project is not making much headway.

This shows that we are struggling to retain people. Lots of big accounts must be powering down. I do not think we can afford to drive away people who could be adding value to Hive. That said, I do think there can be validity in downvotes to deal with cases where rewards are too skewed due to automatic votes and the actions of rogue accounts who do not care about Hive. When this happens we need to make it clear why it was done and show those affected that this is not an attack on what they are doing. If they stick with Hive then they can keep earning.

What has happened in some cases is that people have been driven away so they post on Steem instead. I could just say Steemit actually as they do not have many options in dapps. Steempeak is inactive now. I saw someone say Steem is better as they 'do not have all the made up rules' that Hive has. Er, all rules are made up. We just happen to act when necessary for the good of the platfrom. From what I have seen you can self vote and 'circle jerk' on Steem with impunity. You may do well from that, but probably not as well as the Chinese and Korean accounts who can make $600 to $1000 on a post with little engagement.

Someone I have met who does well there is @pennsif from Wales. He was doing regular news posts on Hive, but seems to have given that up. He can make a couple of hundred dollars per day on Steem doing the same. He was getting some flags on Hive that may have been related to who was voting for him, but still earned well. He told me he does not get flagged on Steem, which does not surprise me. He gets big votes from their 'official' curation account. I think it is a shame he is not working with the Hive community as I know he cares about the principles of decentralisation.

Another potentially useful person is @stephenkendal who did a lot of marketing for Steem, including running stands at crypto events. He told me he was informed he would not be welcome on Hive. I assume that may be for not being hostile to the takeover. He did get the airdrop and has not powered it down. I do not think it is healthy to keep holding grudges over such differences of opinion if we want Hive to grow. People are different and have differing principles, but Hive should be as open as possible.

There are plenty of people on Hive with wildly different politics to me, but if we are going to be about freedom then we should not deter anyone, as long as they act legally and are not actively harming the platform financially. Those who only take can be detered by various means.

There are lots of people posting to both platforms to maximise their income. Many make much more on one than the other. I am not going to criticise them for doing that. Steem is a 'dash for cash' that somehow maintains a higher token price than Hive, but I think it can be lacking socially and definitely when it comes to development. There is far more interesting and valuable work going on here.

I think we need to be working to gain and keep people on Hive. Not everyone can earn a lot, but we can be more social. Billions use other platforms for zero reward and everyone can make something here. The communities can be exploited for social interaction and not just to desperately fish for votes. I only engage with communities on topics that interest me as I am not going to plough through lots of irrelevant posts to find the gold.

We can stay in our own exclusive bubble, but that will do nothing for the $HIVE price and growth will be very slow. We all stand to gain if Hive is a success. After a year it should have grown a lot more, but few outside the crypto sphere have even heard of it. The name is not helping as it is very hard to search for. We need dapps to proudly indicate they are part of the Hive ecosystem so that people do not get stuck in one area. They may join LeoFinance for talk about crypto, but they may also be into sport or games.

Most of the big accounts are individuals rather than organisations from what I have seen. They may hold strong opinions on issues I have mentioned, but they stand to gain the most. Feuds have to end some time.

I have said many times that it is up to each of us to help make Hive prosper even if you have a small stake. You can help people connect and make their experience more enjoyable.

I want millions to get the benefits Hive can confer. What are you doing to bring them here?

Hive five.