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This is the #78th 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
- Hivefest
- Distriator
- Peak Open
- TravelFeed
- Splinterlands
- OffChain Louxembourg
- Hive Sucre
- Aachen
- Hive Boreholes
Crypto
- Mt. Gox
Week on Hive
11 of 22 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.
In the Spotlight
Speakers Number at Hivefest Keeps Growing
In this week's announcement, the following 4 speakers were presented:
- @yabapmatt, co-founder and CEO of Splinterlands
- @lizanomadsoul, co-founder and curator for @wordmappin
- the other co-founder of WorldMapPin and organizer of Beer Saturday, @detlev
- @mynewlife, "a talented videographer with a deep commitment to community engagement" as he was described in the announcement
They join the rest of the speakers already presented so far:
- arcange
- blocktrades
- crimsonclad
- hallmann (governor of @krolestwo)
- howo
- khaleelkazi
- nikita, the CTO of the Decentr Web Browser
- starkerz
- stoodkev
- techcoderx
- theycallmedan
- vaultec
The announcement also presents the place that will host Day 2 of Hivefest conferences. That's the Diocletian's Palace in Split, which looks remarkably well preserved.
Marketing / Awareness / Branding
Onboarding Businesses to... Hive
Distriator is a cashback program for using HBD and BTC Lightning for purchases and then posting about it on Hive. We talked about it before. They came back with a guide to "introducing businesses to HBD, enhancing customer engagement, and increasing business visibility". That to me seems like a good idea, especially for businesses that operate offline and having a physical location they can advertise this way.
They also created a guide for the steps to take to run a successful SpendHBD workshop.
Governance / Development / Dapps
Automated Hive Badges
PeakD already had badges on their website for a long time. What this Open Peak development seem to add besides opening their source code, is to create a standard for these badges that can be created by anyone using personalized criteria of eligibility, and an automated system that follows or unfollows accounts based on these criteria. More details in their post.
TravelFeed Decided to Keep Going
After analyzing the options, TravelFeed decided to continue as a separate platform from WorldMapPin. They will keep a set of pins for travel only. From what they say, WorldMapPin intends to extend the use of pins for other situations beyond travel.
Games
SPS Distribution Audit
@clayboyn, with the help of Splinterlands team members, performed an audit of the SPS distribution to date. Some expected results, a few interesting discoveries. I'd suggest to read his findings and suggestions at the end.
Meetings / Events / Communities
Presenting OffChain Louxembourg
This seems like an interesting experiment that introduces the concept of decentralized human organization. A sort of a DAO, if I'm understanding the concept, but applied offchain, in real life.
Use of HBD in Sucre on the Rise
It looks like the usage of HBD for transactions/purchases in Sucre has been on the rise for some time, a situation @demotruk has been following closely in his stats.
Meetup in Aachen, Germany Took Place at the End of Last Week
In a post mostly in German (luckily for us non-speakers, there are translators), @detlev talks about plans of outdoor activities for last Friday afternoon. After that, we had an update talking about the presentation of WorldMapPin by the same @detlev and @lizanomadsoul.
A New Borehole in Ghana
Borehole #15 funded by Hive was launched recently.
Week in the Crypto World
Mt. Gox's Collapse in 2014 Sent Ripples into 2024
For anyone who doesn't know the details, this article is a good overview of what the reverberations of Mt. Gox's collapse were and why we are talking about it these days, more than 10 years later. If you were given back your Bitcoin after 10 years at 10,000% profit, what would you do? Keep holding or selling? Note that at the time of writing the linked article, BTC was at 59k... I guess we know what direction the market picked...
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