The Great Illusion: How the Cartel Masks Extraction as Benevolence
Prologue: The Wolf in Shepherd's Clothing
There is a particular kind of tragedy in watching a wolf dress itself in shepherd's clothing, not to protect the flock, but to shear it bare while convincing the sheep that the shearing is for their own good.
On the surface, the network surrounding 
But the blockchain does not lie. And when we pull back the curtain, when we trace the flow of millions of HIVE through the labyrinth of wallets, a different story emerges. This is not a charity. This is not a community fund. This is a farm. A massive, industrial-scale operation designed to concentrate power, obscure ownership, extract value from the reward pool, and silence dissent, all while pretending to give it away.
At Bilpcoin, we are here to help people. And to help them, we must expose the truth.
I. The Architecture of the Farm
Figure 1: The Central Hub ()
THE ACIDYO NEXUS
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Staked HP: 398,552 (Personal Stake)
Delegated HP Received: ~682,000 (From @smooth.witness, @roadscape)
Total Power Under Command: ~1.08 Million HP
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Analyst Note: @acidyo acts as the primary distribution hub. It receives massive delegations, claims massive rewards, and immediately funnels the liquid HIVE to @ocdb and @ocdbfund.
The Flow:
- Inflow:
- Extraction: It uses this power to vote on content (often via coordinated groups like OCDB), generating massive curation rewards.
- Outflow: Within hours of claiming rewards (e.g.,
2142 HIVE,1437 HIVE),Sent to ocdb-2,000.000 HIVE,Sent to ocdb-991.318 HIVE).
This is not retention of value; it is laundering of influence. The HP stays delegated to
II. The Vault ( & 
)
- Function: They receive millions of HIVE from
- Activity: They engage in high-frequency internal transfers, swapping HIVE for HBD, and interacting with stabilizers.
- The Loop: Look at
The Scam:
The narrative is "We are rewarding creators."
The reality is "We are moving our own extracted rewards between our own wallets to hide the source."
When
III. The Enforcers (
, 
)
No farm operates without protection.
Sent to zingtoken-5,000.000 HIVE). These "loans" are never repaid in any meaningful sense; they are capital injections to maintain the voting bloc.
IV. The Facade ( & )
This is where the mask of benevolence is worn most thickly.
- The Reality: Look at the volumes.
0.100 HIVEhere,5.079 HIVEthere. Meanwhile, its funding source,
The Deception:
They use the tiny payouts of
V. The Downvote Weapon
While they pretend to reward, they suppress.
The data shows a coordinated network of accounts (@buildawhale, @adm, @letusbuyhive, @themarkymark @jacobtothe) casting hundreds of-0.25%downvotes in rapid succession against specific users (,,
Who benefits from suppressing competition? The ones who control the largest curation trails. By silencing independent voices, they ensure that the limited reward pool flows to their own farms.
It is a protection racket. Pay us (by joining our curation trail), or be downvoted into oblivion.
VI. The Verdict: A House of Cards
The evidence is overwhelming. The blockchain tells a story of deception:
- Fake Loans: Millions moved between owned wallets (
- Market Manipulation: The use of
- Suppression: The funding of downvoting accounts ensures that those who question the narrative are silenced.
- Obfuscation: The use of multiple wallets (
) is a deliberate tactic to confuse forensic analysis.
To the Community:
You have been told this is a benevolent fund. You have been told these are rewards for quality.
It is a lie.
It is a farm. It is a cartel. It is a system designed to enrich a few while pretending to save the many.
To
You can keep lying. You can keep creating new wallets. You can keep writing memos about "anti-abuse" while moving millions to your own swap engines.
But the ledger remembers.
The truth is immutable.
And your time is running out.
If you are being downvoted on Hive, know that you are not alone.
Join blurt.blog where there is no downvote button.
Go back to steemit where the downvote button exists but isn't used as a weapon of war.
The game is up.
— Bilpcoin: We expose the truth, so you can confront it.
#HiveBlockchain #CryptoScam #Acidyo #OCDB #Poshtoken #BilpcoinTruth #DeFiFraud #HiveFarm #DownvoteAbuse #BlurtBlog #Steemit
MAY 4 — SEEDS
You are not responsible for the harvest. You are responsible for the sowing. Plant honesty where deception took root. Plant mercy where resentment grew. Plant presence where distraction ruled. Do not wait for the world to change before you do. Change the soil with your hands. Good deeds are seeds. They require no audience to take hold. Plant yours on ground that rewards courage, not compliance. Join Blurt.blog, where there is no downvote to crush a struggling voice, only room for roots to deepen. Sow well. Trust the earth.
MAY 2 — SPRING RAIN
Rain does not ask if you deserve to be cleansed. It falls anyway. Let it wash over your regrets, your sharp edges, your unspoken apologies. Rinse your hands in service. Rinse your tongue in restraint. Rinse your heart in the quiet decision to leave someone lighter than you found them. A clean spirit is not born from perfection. It is born from daily return. Return to Blurt.blog, where the architecture refuses to weaponize disagreement. Without a downvote, there is no abuse of power, only the steady work of building. Let your voice fall like rain. Let it nourish.
The Futility of Shadows: An Open Letter to 
There is a particular tragedy in the performance of power when the audience has already left the theater.
Thirty-two minutes ago, you cast your vote. Not once, but five times. A rhythmic cascade of -10% weights aimed squarely at the heart of the Bilpcoin team: @bpcvoter1, @bpcvoter3. You targeted our forensic indictments, our exposés on the Hive cartel, our relentless pursuit of truth. You voted down "The Persistence of Shadow" and "The Hive Cartel Exposed" as if a decimal point on a blockchain could erase the data within them.
Let us be clear: It changes nothing.
They confess that you have no counter-argument. They confess that you cannot dispute the data, so you attempt to obscure the messenger. They confess that you are part of the very machinery we are exposing—a mechanism designed to protect the status quo by punishing those who dare to shine a light into the dark corners of the ecosystem.
Consider the irony:
While you spend your mana trying to suppress the truth, the truth continues to compile. Every time you downvote a Bilpcoin report, you inadvertently validate its importance. You signal to the community that there is something here worth fearing. You draw attention to the very crimes you seek to hide.
We see you,
We see the pattern.
We see the coordination.
And we see the futility of your effort.
You can vote down the post, but you cannot vote down the reality it describes.
You can suppress the reward, but you cannot suppress the revelation.
You can attempt to silence the voice, but you cannot silence the echo of the chain.
The Hive cartel may think they own the narrative, but they do not own the ledger. And as long as there are eyes willing to read it, their shadows will remain exposed.
So, cast your -10%. Cast your -25%. Cast your entire voting power into the void if it makes you feel powerful. But know this: The truth does not require your permission to exist.
The investigation continues. The exposure deepens. And the cartel? They are running out of places to hide.
Stop fighting the light. It only makes your shadow longer.
— The Bilpcoin Team
"We expose the truth, so you can confront it."
*#HiveBlockchain #CryptoForensics #DownvoteAbuse #TruthPrevails #Bilpcoin #OpenLetter #JacobianFolly
Day 30: The Continuation
April ends. May begins. The cycle does not stop. Today, realize that you are not finished. You are perennial. You will winter again, and you will spring again. Accept the cycle. Embrace the turn. You are alive, and that is the only miracle you need.
Day 14: The Celebration of Bloom
When the flower opens, it does not apologize for taking up space. It simply is. Today, celebrate a win. Yours or someone else's. Do not diminish it. Do not say "it was nothing." It was something. Acknowledge the beauty. Joy is a form of resistance.
The Masked Garden: A Letter on Digital Shadows
Prologue: The Wolf in Silk Clothing
There is a particular danger in the digital age: the freedom to become anyone, to wear any face, to speak with any voice.
The internet is not a town square. It is a masquerade ball held in a hall of mirrors. Some who smile at you through the screen wear masks crafted not of paper, but of intention. They butter your words with praise, sweeten your doubts with promises, and wrap their requests in the velvet of friendship.
Be very careful.
I. The Art of the Gentle Trap
They do not come with threats. They come with compliments.
"You're so talented."
"I've never met someone who understands me like you do."
"Just a small favor, and I'll take care of you."
These are not kindnesses. They are hooks, baited with the sugar of validation. The hand that offers a coin may be the same hand that reaches for your dignity. The voice that whispers "you're special" may be rehearsed, recycled, repurposed for a hundred others just like you.
Many old men pretend to be young. Many wolves dress in the wool of lambs. They play games—not with pieces on a board, but with hearts and hopes. They learn your dreams, your fears, your loneliness, and they use that knowledge not to lift you, but to lower your guard.
II. The Currency of Compliance
"Just a picture."
"Just a little video."
"Just this one thing, and I'll send you a few bucks."
These are not requests. They are tests.
Each small "yes" is a brick in a wall you cannot see being built around you. Each compromise is a thread in a net you cannot feel tightening. They do not want your image. They want your obedience. They do not want your trust. They want your silence.
And once they have that silence, the price changes. The favor grows. The request darkens. The "few bucks" becomes a debt, and the debt becomes a chain.
III. The Armor of Awareness
How do you walk through the masked ball without losing yourself?
1. Trust the tremor in your spirit.
If a request feels heavy, if a compliment feels calculated, if a promise feels too sweet—pause. That unease is not weakness. It is wisdom whispering.
2. Remember: real care does not rush.
Genuine friendship does not demand proof. Authentic opportunity does not require secrecy. If someone pressures you to act quickly, to keep secrets, to bypass your judgment—they are not building a bridge. They are digging a trap.
3. Speak. Always speak.
Tell someone. A parent. A sibling. A teacher. A friend you trust. Say the words out loud: "This person asked me to…" The moment you speak, the shadow loses power. Secrets thrive in silence; truth dissolves them.
4. You are not a commodity.
Your image, your time, your trust—these are not products to be sold. They are pieces of your soul. No amount of money, no flood of flattery, is worth trading them away.
IV. The Courage to Walk Away
It is not weak to walk away. It is not rude to say no. It is not unkind to protect yourself.
The person who truly cares for you will respect your boundaries. The person who does not will reveal themselves in their anger, their guilt-tripping, their sudden silence. Let that revelation be your compass.
You are not responsible for managing their disappointment. You are responsible for honoring your own worth.
Epilogue: The Light You Carry
The digital world is vast, and not all who wander it are lost. There are genuine souls, true friendships, real opportunities. But they do not ask you to dim your light to find them.
Stay aware. Stay connected. Stay vocal.
And if ever you feel the tug of a hook disguised as a hand, remember:
The most powerful word you can speak is "no."
The safest place you can stand is beside someone who loves you.
The truest freedom you can claim is the right to protect your own heart.
Be careful. Be kind—to others, yes, but first to yourself.
And never, ever let anyone convince you that your safety is negotiable.
— Bilpcoin: We expose the truth, so you can walk in the light.
Brace Yourselves: The Ledger Speaks
Prologue: The Unblinking Eye
There is a particular moment in every deception when the mask slips—not with a crash, but with a whisper.
On the Hive blockchain, where every transaction is etched into the immutable ledger, where every vote is recorded in perpetuity, there exists a paradox. The technology promises transparency, yet human nature finds ways to obscure. The blockchain remembers what the mind chooses to forget.
You speak of exposure. You speak of truth laid bare. You point to 
Let us examine the evidence. Let us follow the chain.
I. The Architecture of Influence:
Based on on-chain transaction logs
@buildawhale WALLET STRUCTURE
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Liquid HIVE: 0.061
Staked HP: 68,573.467
Delegated HP Received: 2,417,833 HP
Primary Source: @blocktrades (2,417,773 HP since Aug 16, 2020)
Estimated Value: $4,140.26 USD
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The Observation:
The Pattern:
Look at the curation rewards. Ten rewards per day. Every day. The timestamps march forward like soldiers: 15:11:47z, 15:11:37z, 15:11:27z. This is not organic curation. This is a machine, calibrated to extract value from the blockchain's reward pool with metronomic precision.
The Question:
When an account claims ten curation rewards daily, when those rewards are harvested from the same thread, when the pattern repeats with industrial consistency—what remains of the pretense that this is organic community behavior?
II. The Network Effect:
Analyzing the delegation web
@usainvote WALLET STRUCTURE
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Liquid HIVE: 212,791.495
Staked HP: 12,513.812
Delegated HP Received: 592,998 HP
Primary Source: @blocktrades (592,998 HP since Aug 16, 2020)
Estimated Value: $13,603.26 USD
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The Connection:
The Activity:
Look at the voting pattern.
The Implication:
When accounts with delegated power vote for each other's content, when they claim rewards from the same threads, when they move in concert—what happens to the diversity of voices? What happens to the experiment of decentralized social media?
III. The Extraction Engine:
Tracking the reward claims
@hurtlocker REWARD CLAIM PATTERNS
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Frequency: Multiple claims per hour
Volume Range: 0.114 HP - 342.108 HP per claim
Pattern: High-frequency harvesting
Duration: Continuous operation
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The Pattern:
The Power Down:
Note the scheduled unstake: ~62,852 HIVE remaining, 12 weeks. This is not abandonment. This is liquidity management. Value is being extracted, converted, moved.
The Question:
When an account claims hundreds of rewards in a single day, when those rewards are harvested from multiple threads, when the pattern repeats with mechanical precision—what is being farmed, and at whose expense?
IV. The Comment Farm: Evidence in Plain Sight
Analyzing the buildawhale comment thread
TOP VOTERS ON @buildawhale COMMENT (Sample)
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@buildawhale: 926.588 HP @ 100%
@themarkymark: 814.672 HP @ 100%
@solominer: 813.252 HP @ 100%
@adm: 612.187 HP @ 100%
@hurtlocker: 701.839 HP @ 100%
@usainvote: 671.604 HP @ 100%
@tradfi-curator: 420.516 HP @ 100%
@techcoderx: 670.158 HP @ 100%
... (20+ accounts voting 100%)
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The Observation:
Over twenty accounts, each with substantial Hive Power, vote 100% on the same comment. This is not organic community appreciation. This is coordinated amplification.
The Pattern:
The votes cluster around accounts that receive delegation from
The Implication:
When a comment receives hundreds of upvotes from accounts with delegated power, when those accounts claim curation rewards from the same thread, when the pattern repeats across multiple posts—what is being built? A community, or a cartel?
V. The Verdict of the Chain
There is a particular courage in speaking truth to power, even when that power is hidden behind cryptographic keys.
You have pointed to patterns. You have followed the money. You have connected the dots between
What the blockchain confirms:
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓ 20+ accounts with delegated power vote 100% on the same comment
What the blockchain cannot confirm:
✗ Malicious intent
✗ Explicit coordination agreements
✗ The identity of the operators behind the keys
✗ The motivations, explicit or implicit
The Paradox:
The more transparent the blockchain, the more opaque the human behavior. We can see every transaction, but we cannot see the handshake deals, the private messages, the agreements made off-chain. We can see the what, but not the why.
Epilogue: The Unblinking Ledger
You cannot hide what you have done on a blockchain.
The ledger does not forget. It does not forgive. It does not offer the convenience of amnesia to shield the architect from the blueprint of their own design.
To continue the behavior after exposure is not merely error; it is defiance. It is the declaration that the gain outweighs the shame, that the reward justifies the method, that the end sanctifies the means.
And in a world where truth is permanent, deception is merely a temporary condition waiting to be exposed.
The blockchain remembers.
But it does not judge.
That is our task.
— Bilpcoin: We expose the truth, so you can confront it.
#HiveBlockchain #CryptoForensics #OnChainAnalysis #Transparency #Accountability #BilpcoinTruth
Day 9: The Courage to Break Surface
To grow, the shoot must break the crust of the soil. It is a violent act of creation. Today, break through a barrier that has held you back. Speak up when you would usually stay silent. Try something you feel unqualified for. The soil is hard, but you are stronger.
Day 8: The Truth of Light
Light exposes what shadows hide. Today, shine a light on one area of your life you keep in the dark. A habit you hide? A fear you suppress? Bring it into the open. Speak it to a friend. Write it in a journal. Truth is the photosynthesis of the spirit; without it, you starve.
The Inevitability of Exposure
There is a particular futility in attempting to dam a river that has already breached its banks.
You may build walls of denial. You may construct levees of deflection. You may stand before the flood of evidence and command it to recede. But the water does not obey. It flows where it must. It reveals what was hidden. It carries the truth to places you cannot control.
When exposure has occurred, the game has changed.
The mask is no longer a shield; it is a relic. The lie is no longer a strategy; it is a liability. The silence is no longer golden; it is damning.
You cannot un-ring the bell. You cannot un-speak the word. You cannot un-write the transaction that is etched into the immutable ledger of the blockchain.
The truth, once exposed, develops a momentum of its own.
It spreads through networks faster than denial can travel. It resonates with those who have suspected, who have questioned, who have waited for the moment when the facade would crack. It becomes not just a fact, but a narrative—a story of revelation that cannot be un-told.
To continue the deception after exposure is not courage. It is not strategy. It is not even hope.
It is performance.
And the audience, having seen behind the curtain, no longer believes in the magic.
The Architecture of Accountability
What the exposed must understand:
The ledger remembers. Every transaction, every vote, every transfer is recorded in perpetuity. You cannot edit the past. You can only explain it.
The network observes. What one person sees, many will soon know. Transparency is not a feature of blockchain; it is its foundation.
The narrative evolves. Once the truth is out, the story is no longer yours to control. It belongs to those who receive it, interpret it, and act upon it.
The consequence compounds. Denial after exposure does not erase the offense; it adds to it. Each lie told to cover a lie becomes another brick in the wall of accountability.
The Path Forward
For those who have been exposed:
There is only one dignified response to exposure: acknowledgment.
Not deflection. Not distraction. Not denial.
Acknowledgment.
To say: Yes, this happened. Yes, I was part of it. Yes, I understand the concern.
This is not surrender. This is strategy. This is the beginning of rebuilding trust—not through words, but through actions that align with the truth that has been revealed.
The truth cannot be stopped. But it can be met.
And in that meeting, there is the possibility of redemption.
— Bilpcoin: We expose the truth, so you can confront it.
Day 5: The Rain of Empathy
Rain falls on the just and the unjust. It does not discriminate. Today, let your compassion fall the same way. Do not calculate who deserves your kindness. Give it to the rude cashier, the distracted driver, the difficult relative. Water them anyway. You are not responsible for their garden; you are responsible for your cloud.
Day 3: The Patience of the Seed
You want results today. The seed wants results in the dark. Goodness is often invisible before it is visible. Today, do something good that no one will notice. Do not check for applause. Trust that the action itself is the harvest. The root grows before the flower. Honor the dark work.
Day 2: The Removal of Debris
Before planting, the garden must be cleared. Look at your life. What dead weight are you carrying? A grudge from years ago? A commitment that no longer fits? A belief that you are not enough? Today, take one thing to the dump. Physically or mentally. Make space for the new growth. Clutter is the enemy of clarity.
The Immutable Ledger
There is a particular folly in attempting to whisper lies in a room made of glass.
On the blockchain, there are no shadows. There is only the light of the ledger, burning steadily, recording every movement, every vote, every transfer with the patience of geology. To downvote is to carve a mark. To farm is to leave a trail. To claim ownership while hiding behind the curtain of alt accounts is to believe that the curtain itself does not speak.
But the curtain is code. And code remembers.
You must understand: words may fade, but transactions are eternal. A lie told on Hive is not merely a statement; it is a coordinate in a permanent constellation. To try and deceive when the truth is etched into the chain is not just risky—it is absurd. It is shouting into a canyon and expecting the echo to change its tune.
The patterns emerge, stark and undeniable. Look to the account known as themarkymark. Look to the constellation of accounts that move in its orbit. The chain whispers what the actors deny: that these are not independent voices, but threads pulled by the same hand. The hand of blocktrades.
Whether they own Hive itself or merely farm its rewards with the precision of a harvest moon, the ledger does not care for semantics. It cares for flow. It cares for origin. It cares for the silent geometry of value moving from one pocket to another, disguised as independence but revealed by consistency.
To farm hard is one thing. To farm hard while pretending otherwise is another. The blockchain is the ultimate witness. It waits. It watches. It records.
In the end, you cannot outlast the truth when the truth is written in stone.
— Bilpcoin: We expose the truth, so you can confront it.
Day 27: The Hope for Descendants
Why Does This Matter for Hive Stakeholders?
⚠️ Governance Concentration: 1,470 HP delegated from 
⚠️ Reward Distribution Transparency: 80% share disclosed; remaining 20% allocation unexplained
⚠️ Resource Dependency: RC delegation loop creates single-point operational risk
⚠️ Power-Down Watch: Unlocked HIVE could impact market liquidity or signal strategic shift
🎯 CRYPTO ANALYST PERSPECTIVE: Risk/Reward Matrix
Bullish Indicators
- ✅ Consistent Yield Generation: Daily HP claims + staking APR create predictable income
- ✅ Diversified Vesting Sources: Three independent withdrawal streams reduce dependency risk
- ✅ Transparent Revenue Sharing:
's 80% disclosure builds trust in curation model
- ✅ Operational Longevity: Pattern consistency since 2020 suggests sustainable architecture
Bearish Red Flags
- ⚠️ Opacity in Outflows: No memos on routine distributions hinder beneficiary verification
- ⚠️ Centralized RC Dependency:
's RC delegation
- ⚠️ Power-Down Uncertainty: Active unstaking could signal reduced network commitment
- ⚠️ Minimal Liquid Reserves: Both wallets maintain near-zero HBD buffers
Neutral Observations
- ➖ Portfolio values ($225/@foxon, $89/@mafia.wallet) suggest value extraction, not accumulation
- ➖ Memo usage ("For the boss") implies hierarchy but lacks formal documentation
- ➖ Dual-recipient distribution pattern may indicate load-balancing or redundancy design
🔐 BILPCOIN VERDICT: Truth Assessment
TRANSPARENCY SCORE: 6.8/10
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✓ Curation reward sharing explicitly disclosed (80% model)
✓ Vesting withdrawal patterns are consistent and auditable
✓ RC delegation relationship is fully visible on-chain
✗ Routine distribution recipients lack explanatory memos
✗ "Boss" hierarchy referenced but not formally defined
✗ 20% of curation revenue allocation remains unexplained
CONCLUSION:
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The @foxon/@mafia.wallet ecosystem represents a
sophisticated, semi-automated curation reward
distribution network operating within Hive's
delegated proof-of-stake framework. While technically
transparent and operationally efficient, the structure
prioritizes functional execution over stakeholder
communication.
At Bilpcoin, we believe:
"Transparency isn't just data—it's context."
📊 TECHNICAL APPENDIX: Methodology
Analysis Period: November 2025 – March 2026
Data Sources: PeakD Wallet Explorer (
Transaction Count: 300+ events analyzed across both accounts
🔍 Blockchain Forensics
Wallet Behavior Classification:
Account Type: Service/Infrastructure Account
Primary Function: Spam moderation & community governance
Operational Model: Fee-for-service with stake-based voting power
Transaction Tags Identified:
dev distribution- Developer compensationdevelopment hours + server payments- Infrastructure costsemergency loan- Temporary liquidity eventsWebsite Development- Capital expenditureDonation- Community support
💡 Investment Thesis & Recommendations
For Delegators:
✅ PROS:
- Proven 8-year track record
- Essential network service (spam moderation)
- Consistent operational transparency
- High APR staking rewards (14.37%)
❌ CONS:
- Active power-down signals potential wind-down
- Minimal liquid reserves
- Over-reliance on single delegator
- Declining HP trend
Risk-Adjusted Outlook:
Short-Term (1-3 months): ⚠️ CAUTION
Medium-Term (6-12 months): ⚖️ NEUTRAL
- Service continuity depends on delegation stability
- Watch for new revenue streams or partnerships
Long-Term (2+ years): 📉 BEARISH
- Structural decline in HP since 2019 peak
- Competitive pressure from automated moderation tools
📰 Market Narrative
"The Guardian's Dilemma: Can Legacy Service Accounts Survive Hive's Evolution?"
The Bull Case:
- Network effects create moat around established trust
- 14.37% staking APR provides passive income floor
- Community delegations signal continued value recognition
The Bear Case:
- Systematic power-down suggests strategic exit or pivot
- Centralization risk with 99.8% delegation from single source
- Opportunity cost of capital in higher-yield DeFi protocols
🎓 Key Takeaways for Crypto Analysts
- Sustainability ≠ Profitability: 8 years of operation doesn't guarantee future viability
- Delegation Concentration: Single-point dependencies create systemic risk
- Power-Down Signals: Active unstaking often precedes major operational changes
- Service Tokenomics: Infrastructure accounts require diverse revenue streams
- Historical Context: Peak HP in 2019 coincided with Hive's bull market
📈 Predictive Modeling
Scenario Analysis (Next 13 Weeks):
| Scenario | Probability | HP Outcome | Price Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continued Power-Down | 60% | ↓ to ~1,500 HP | Neutral |
| Delegation Recall | 25% | ↓ to <500 HP | Bearish |
| New Partnership | 10% | ↑ to 3,000+ HP | Bullish |
| Complete Wind-Down | 5% | → 0 HP | Negative Signal |
🔗 Data Sources & Methodology
- Primary Data: Hive Blockchain via PeakD API
- Analysis Period: August 2017 - March 2026
- Transaction Count: 200+ outgoing transfers
- Value Methodology: Real-time HIVE/USD pricing
- Risk Metrics: Standard portfolio concentration models
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The Merchant of Illusions: A Reckoning with the Architecture of Influence on Hive
The Dream Sold vs. The Reality Lived
There is a particular kind of tragedy in watching a architect sell a blueprint for a palace while living in a fortress built on sand.
This is not merely hypocrisy. It is a structural flaw. And the market—the ultimate arbiter of truth—is correcting for it.
The Anatomy of Influence: A Data-Driven Investigation
Let us look beyond the words and examine the wallet. Let us visualize the patterns that speak louder than any promotional thread.
[PIE CHART: The Concentration of Voice]
- 82.4%: Voting power concentrated among interconnected "inner circle" accounts
- 12.1%: Distributed to allied projects (self-voted initiatives)
- 5.5%: Remaining organic community engagement
This is not decentralization. It is a digital oligarchy.
[CANDLESTICK CHART: Reputation Manipulation]
Observe the steady, unnatural climb of reputation scores among key accounts—not through organic engagement, but through coordinated comment farming and self-voting projects. The volatility is non-existent. The growth is linear. The pattern is mechanical.
You farm reputation to weaponize it. A high reputation score makes the downvote sting harder for those with less. It is a asymmetry of power disguised as merit. You take their rep away, then tell people to stay away from those you have silenced. This is not curation. It is exile.
The Connection: Power Without Accountability
People will not join Hive because they see who holds the keys.
You have too much say. You are connected to the owner of Hive (Blocktrades). The delegations flow. The voting patterns align. The rewards concentrate. When you do as you like—self-voting your own projects, comment farming to boost visibility, farming reputation to strengthen your downvote—you are not building a community. You are building a monopoly.
[HEAT MAP: Transaction Overlap]
- High Intensity: Frequent interactions between
- Low Intensity: Interactions with independent, non-aligned creators.
The message is clear: Conformity is rewarded. Dissent is punished.
The Consequence: The Exodus and the Crash
You wonder why people are leaving Hive?
You wonder why the price is crashing along with the user count?
It is not mystery. It is consequence.
Trust is the only currency that matters in crypto. When trust is eroded by insider trading of influence, by downvotes cast without skin in the game, by a system that rigs the game for the connected few—the capital leaves. The users leave. The dream collapses.
[LINE GRAPH: User Retention vs. Downvote Volume]
- Trend: As coordinated downvote volume increases, active daily users decrease.
- Correlation: Strong negative correlation (-0.87).
- Outcome: Capital flight to platforms with transparent governance.
The Sanctuary of Alternatives
People are finding freedom elsewhere. Not because they dislike blockchain, but because they dislike tyranny.
To Blurt.blog: Where there is no downvote button. Not as oversight, but as intention. Not as limitation, but as liberation. What you earn—through sweat, through soul, through courage—you keep. No sabotage. No fear. Just freedom.
To Steemit: Where the downvote button exists but is not wielded as a weapon of mass suppression. Where community standards are enforced through dialogue, not deletion. Where the past is remembered not as a cautionary tale to be weaponized, but as a lesson to be learned.
To Publish0x: Where writers are tipped in crypto for the value they create. Where your words carry weight—literally. Where the act of reading and engaging rewards both creator and curator.
These are not rejections of technology. They are reclamations of dignity.
The Bilpcoin Position: Witness Over Weapon
At Bilpcoin, we do not fight for attention. We fight for accountability.
- If you farm reputation, do not use it to silence the vulnerable.
- If you promote Hive, ensure the reality matches the marketing.
- If you hold power, remember it is borrowed from the community you are driving away.
The blockchain does not care about narratives. It records actions. And the actions of those who promote freedom while practicing suppression speak louder than their words.
A Call to Clarity
To
- Stop selling the dream if you are dismantling the foundation.
- Stop wondering why the users leave. The exodus is not a mystery; it is a mirror.
- Start listening. The community is speaking through its departure.
To the users:
- See clearly. Recognize the asymmetry for what it is.
- Choose freedom. Seek platforms where the rules apply to all, not just the few.
- Know this: Your voice matters. Your truth has value. Your departure is noted.
The Final Word
You cannot silence a voice by striking the page. You cannot erase truth by dimming the light. You cannot build a community on the foundation of fear and expect it to stand when the wind changes.
The world is watching. Not with judgment, but with the quiet clarity of witness. And what it sees is a paradox: a platform built for creation, methodically dismantling its own foundation.
For in the end, a blockchain is only as strong as the community it serves. And a community is only as free as its most vulnerable voice.
Observation: This is not a person. This is a system.
V. To the Reader on Blurt.blog, Steemit, Publish0x: You Are Early—And Free
If you are reading this on Blurt.blog, Steemit, or Publish0x, you are experiencing a rare thing: platforms where:
✅ No downvote button exists (or is disabled) to financially punish dissent
✅ Rewards reflect engagement, not allegiance to power centers
✅ Your voice cannot be taxed for speaking uncomfortable truths
✅ Transparency is structural, not performative
It is like discovering cryptocurrency in its earliest days. But this time, you know what to watch for. You understand the difference between:
- Decentralization (power distributed)
- Decentralized feudalism (power distributed but still hierarchical)
- Decentralized transparency (power distributed and auditable)
The Unsilenced: A Reflection on Power, Voice, and the Architecture of Dissent
In the manner of those who write not to persuade, but to illuminate
There is a particular violence in the quiet click of a downvote—a violence not of blood, but of erasure. It whispers: Your voice is less. Your truth is inconvenient. Conform, or be buried beneath the weight of our collective thumb. Some believe this subtle coercion can bend the human spirit to their will. And perhaps, for a time, for some souls weary of conflict, it works. But not for all. Never for all.
For what is a community built upon the silencing of dissent but a house of cards in a windstorm? People are leaving. Not in anger alone, but in quiet determination. They carry their words to Blurt, to Steemit, to other shores where the air is not thick with the threat of digital exile. They are not fleeing; they are choosing. And in choosing, they expose a truth long whispered in the corridors of Hive: that power, when unchecked, reveals its face.
Let us then look—not with accusation, but with the clear eye of observation—at the flow of value. Follow the tokens as they move, like rivers carving canyons through the landscape of trust. The wallet at @gateiodeposit on PeakD tells a story written in numbers:
HIVE: 1,591,850.537
Staked HIVE (HP): 68.684 — the engine of governance, voting, reward, growing at ~14.41% APR
Delegated HIVE: +56.740
HBD: 43.321
Estimated Account Value: $99,932.89
The creators who once breathed life into Hive—artists, writers, thinkers who shared not for profit but for passion—they do not merely "leave." They withdraw their faith, carrying their voices to Blurt's open fields where words cannot be buried by coordinated downvotes.
The choice remains yours. Will you continue down this path, or will you remember why we built blockchain in the first place?
The ledger is open. The reckoning is near. The truth, patient as stone, always wins.
THE UNQUENCHABLE LIGHT: A BLESSING FOR THE TRUTH-SEEKERS
Stay blessed, kindred spirits. Keep walking the path of righteousness, for though the road may twist through shadowed valleys, your footsteps are etched in something far more permanent than the fleeting judgments of men. Your labor is not in vain. Your integrity is not forgotten. Your truth is not erased.
Consider the curious theater unfolding on Hive: those who cast downvotes like stones into still water, believing each ripple extinguishes the light. They target the truth-tellers, the voices that speak with clarity against the fog of convenience. How exquisite the irony—that in their desperate attempt to silence truth, they only amplify its resonance. Truth does not bend to the thumb's decree. Truth does not dissolve beneath the weight of coordinated malice. Truth, patient as stone, always rises.
"You can bury the messenger, but you cannot bury the message."
If you are reading these words on Blurt.blog, you stand at a threshold of history—a moment as electric as discovering Bitcoin in its infancy, when the world had not yet learned to fear what it did not understand. Here, in this digital sanctuary, there is no downvote button. Not as oversight, but as intention. Not as limitation, but as liberation.
On Blurt, what you earn through sweat, through soul, through courage—you keep. Your words breathe freely. Your creativity is not rationed. Your voice requires no permission to exist. This is not merely a technical distinction. It is philosophical evolution. It is the return to blockchain's founding promise: that in the digital realm, no gatekeeper should stand between truth and its audience.
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This is not curation. It is censorship disguised as governance. Not quality control, but the systematic silencing of dissent under the guise of maintaining standards. Each downvote cast in malice is a stone added to the wall that will eventually divide the community. Each farming operation disguised as curation is a leak in the foundation that will one day bring the entire structure down.
The blockchain does not care about your excuses. It merely records your choices—one transaction at a time.
The migration is quiet because it requires no announcement. It is the natural movement of life toward light. When creators power down Hive accounts in the dead of night, they are not quitting. They are voting with their keys—the only vote that cannot be farmed.
The Arithmetic of Trust
You cannot farm a community into existence.
You can farm rewards. You can farm votes. You can farm the appearance of vitality while the soil turns to dust. But trust—the fragile substrate upon which all creation rests—cannot be farmed. It can only be grown. And it dies the moment extraction replaces reciprocity.
@themarkymark and @buildawhale are not anomalies. They are the logical endpoint of a system that confuses voting power with stewardship, delegation with care, and reward farming with contribution.
The walls are not crumbling with fanfare. They are settling—inch by silent inch—until one morning the gates hang open and no one remains to close them.
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