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This is the #80th edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.
Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:
Hive
- Hive Core Meeting
- Blockchain Rio
- Spend HBD, Distriator
- Hive Nodes
- Source Quoting
- Clive
- Splinterlands
- Holozing
- Hive Cuba
- Hive Sucre
- Ghana Boreholes
- Hive Hub
Crypto
- Ethereum ETFs
- Coinbase, Stripe
Week on Hive
16 of 23 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
New Hive Core Meeting
Blocktrades offered an optimistic date by which the lite accounts and second layer transactions via smart contracts they are working on would be ready: the end of the year. Immediately after that he said this may be a too aggressive timeline, so I'd rather not think of this as a deadline. Not even close.
Some Hive applications being worked on by the core team are slowly coming together to a point where they can be presented publicly. Still a work in progress though.
Blocktrades mentioned Denser, the replacer of Condenser code using more modern Web technologies, may have a demo version ready for its blogging part (not the wallet part) by Hive Fest.
@gtg went one step further and uploaded the pre-released Denser on his website for semi-public review and feedback:
And I went a step further and added this to the spotlight section, lol. Remember, work in progress...
Seems like the decision was made to keep the same look of hive.blog rather than confuse users with a new look. Simplicity has its role too, and some people prefer it.
Here's another piece of the puzzle revealed. @mcfarhat's team has been contributing to the new block explorer app developed by the Blocktrades team, and he shared this instance they run themselves: hivescan.info.
This is the full transcript and recording of the meeting.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Hive at Blockchain Rio 2024
Hive participates at Blockchain Rio 2024, the largest innovation event in LATAM, next week (24-25 July), for the first time. We will have a booth and two speakers, @arlettemsalase and @starkerz. Here are the details (in Spanish).
More About Spend HBD & Distriator
I'd like to share two videos relevant to this topic.
In the first one, @starkerz presents them from the business and social perspectives, how Distriator's incentives can help onboard new people and can put the businesses that accept HBD in the spotlight.
The second video is a tutorial for adding a new business to Distriator.
There was also a recent CTT Podcast with Matt, @theycallmedan, and @alex-rourke, focused a lot on the Spend HBD topic.
Governance / Development / Dapps / Education
"Hive Node Setup for the Smart, the Dumb, and the Lazy"
I loved the title on Gandalf's post, so I just used it here too.
This is a very handy guide for anyone rusty or as he said lazy who wants to run a Hive node.
Enough references to 'exchanges' in this guide, so maybe it is a resource they'll be point to when they have questions.
How to Quote Sources on Hive?
@aliento's project @encouragement made a very good guide on how to use sources on Hive in their series of Hive Basics. I admit I had no idea about some of the ways to use sources, particularly when it's video, since I don't do video on Hive.
Clive Update
The CLI part of Clive has been updated to include the Custom JSON operations. Here are more details.
Games
Splinterlands Proposals
I already talked about Splinterlands proposals 4 times in 9 days on my blog, which is more than enough (I didn't even count until now), so this topic takes a back seat in this roundup.
There are a number of important proposals going on for Splinterlands right now, a few for the SPS.DAO and one for the DHF.
A Splinterlands town hall meeting took place yesterday, where I assume the proposals were also discussed, among many other topics. Haven't listened to it yet.
New Holozing Financial Report
After many months, a new financial report from Holozing, which wasn't easy to put together precisely because many things changed between the report they compare with from January and now.
Meetings / Events / Communities
Hive Cuba Created a Newsletter
@HiveCuba created a newsletter for its members to keep them updated with what's going on on Hive and in their community. They are also focusing on HiveCubaCon.
Hive Philanthropy
Hive Sucre Helping Out After Hurricane Passed
Hurricane Beryl hit the Sucre State and particularly the Cumanacoa town. Hive Sucre teamed up with IMATUR and Hola Supercenter to help send some supplies to Cumanacoa. Here are all the details.
Hive Boreholes Project
The #16 borehole project started in Dingoni, Ghana shortly after the previous one was completed. Initially, #15 & #16 were planned to be built together, but it looks like the geological surveys didn't give the go-ahead for the second borehole at the initial location.
10 Computers for Hive Hub in Venezuela
@coldbeetrootsoup is asking the DHF for a small funding of 2650 HBD (over a period of 10 days) to purchase 10 computers for what is intended to become a Hive Hub in a classroom in a Venezuelan school which has recently been renovated also as a Hive (and Monero) funded project, where 2 computers were already bought and linked to the internet (which was a challenge). The proposal also intends to help the local contact @nahupku with basic life expenses while he focuses on the project. All the details come attached.
Week in the Crypto World
'Sources' Indicate Ethereum Spot ETFs Will Start Trading on Tuesday
Will see if all websites that quote Tuesday as the day to start trading Etereum ETFs had the same sources and if they were right or not. But something is brewing... Here's one such article, but there are many.
Coinbase and Stripe Partnership
Stripe will add support for USDC on Base across its suite of products and, in return, Coinbase will integrate Stripe's fiat-to-crypto onramps into Coinbase Wallet, which allow purchases with credit cards or Apple Pay. Read more here.
Hmm, looks like Base is the new BSC taken to another level, with the difference that Coinbase became the favorite CEX after Binance fell in disgrace of the US regulators.
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