it’s weird right, no gas fees SHOULD be bringing EVERYONE who’s into crypto to HIVE to just you know have a social media place to blog about all their other cryptos they are into and stack some HIVE in the process and yet, i don’t see the big crypto users doing that. Is it not cool enough, attractive enough, proven itself as a stable/secure chain enough?
Did the steem war scare investors off, maybe the way consensus works, maybe the token wasn’t attractive enough less than a dollar? But now, now we are in the front row seats, token is doing really well, touched $3+ and just under it right now, a rally could FULL SEND it over $5>$10 it would certainly feel the old days of 2007 when we had $8 steem and $14 SBD (those were the times, it was a great christmas!)
regardless, flim flam and gobbledygook.
what is the human makeup of the crypto scene today anyway?
from where i’m looking it’s still loads of “consumers” or people smart enough to realise that unless they wanna be wheelbarrowing their fiat to the corner store to get a meal deal with a hyperinflation stack of notes they really should invest their current fiat money (which is falling in price like a bad damp proof course, between the cracks!)
i don’t see creators as much, takes a lot for someone to be a “writer” of sorts and to “blog” everyday — most platforms that do see people making things are really microblogging and short form, things throw away like tiktok that uses it’s audio library as a hook for non creative throw any old bollocks together and post — the TTL “time to live” of being a content creator there is super fast and costs zero to the end user apart from a little time, not much at all.
truth is we have less bloggers than we do people just reading about cryptos in a newspaper or overhearing it in a pub somewhere and being seen as “fringe” — that’s not to say we don’t have a bigger audience daily looking at it and wondering why bitcoin is still alive after all the up’s and downs and the average person can understand the “cost savings” of using these digital methods (that’s as long as they don’t get into ethereum and get scared away by their gas prices, maybe that’s a good thing in the long run for hive thou?)
no but seriously, hive does deserve to be in the top 100, heck even top 10 — not just because of price movement but sheer determination of will to have this network of nodes and machine and ideals keep on pushing forward — wherever you have a group of people that want to connect, that want to build, that understand what this system has over others (because they try them and ultimately come back) you have this “keep the ship” afloat approach
even when the steem war was bad and even when it cost FIAT MONEY to keep servers going as it wasn’t financially viable to do so, they still did. that says a lot about the witnesses and the long term users of the platform, they believe in the technology and what they can deliver.
passion for something existing, your corner of the internet, your little node in the cloud ticking along is everything in a world of rug pulls and quick flips, economies bought and sold like nothing, having a digital legacy is important, especially when we forget our history so easily.
so the price has taken a little dip in the last few weeks but it’s still very much $1.50/2 and that’s great to see, ath (all time high) after ath recently, you only have to look at long term projects like splinter lands (a majority of the traffic that makes up the hive blockchain) and how they have evolved and matured that product, they have so many “onramps” from other blockchains and have explored and integrated relevant and low gas fee/fast blockchains for a rapid experience.
new frontends breath new life and new audiences
one of my favourite frontends (used to be ecency, which i still use from time to time) is inji.com built by @timo as it’s a super smart way of bringing microblogs to the platform. it does away with the usual layout of hive.blog or peakd and instead it’s got a really lovely ui/ux experience that the majority of mobile users will find a breeze.
it’s going through constant iteration too which is great to see — i’ve already put my money into the three month subscription and intend to support it more going into 2022 as i start to build up my hive account again. I can only explain it like a tumblr blog for hive, you can just post or post to the hive blockchain which means that brand new, non blockchain users can just get posting which is awesome, then they can slowly learn how to cross post and even buy a hive account from the online shop.
i intend to do a video/tutorial on using the platform in the hope that the new wave of users who are into crypto / defi / nft’s can realise how good a base it is for selling their art and digital assets — the fact that you can display your @punksonhive and opensea / nftshowroom nft assets inline alone is worth it because you can cross post to hive AND tell twitter about it all in one click if you wish — real utility, real tools!
the K.I.S.S (keep it simple stupid!) approach to the way that inji works and looks i think is a testament to a well thought reimagining of what a blogging frontend should look like — from the widgets, custom profile elements and beyond. I hope crypto twitter adopts this as a micro blogging
meanwhile in the centralised world, shit like this is happening :)
https://twitter.com/CMAgovUK/status/1465624517393489920
- CMAgovUK
isn’t this just wild that building a website for gifs, selling it for £236 million for integration into facebook (now meta) to appear “up to date with the kids of today” is still a thing — two hundred and thirty six million pounds people for animated gifs and then you have an “authority” in the uk are “directing” facebook to see it because of “competition” — is this the content world you wanna live in?!
You can see the gov.uk press release here — https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-directs-facebook-to-sell-giphy — kinda wild that people can create these “bodies/authorities” and suggest that something is not “fair” and it will effect “innovation” — what are your thoughts on this?
Are we destined to just be shoe horned into just a handful of culture sapping companies or do we need these bodies to display some “fair practice” in the ever evolving digital world of acquisitions of something as basic as a graphics interchange format — i wonder if compuserve ever wake in the night wishing they had licensed it? :)
quick link | https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59460644
(UK competition watchdog orders Meta to sell Giphy)
humble x
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