There's not been a lot of things happening on-chain on Hive, it's been relatively quiet but then a lot of accounts have been taking advantage of that to perpetuate scams.
The best ways to not fall for these scams is to mostly not click anything before you do a little research on what you're asked to click.
This is one of the rule of thumbs when you're dealing with unknown offers of something juicy. Scammers are crawling everywhere.
Recently a X account got suspended for involving in a complex scam and surprisingly all these are happening within crypto.
The industry is thin, and people are running low when it comes to funds but everyone and scammers are out to take away the remaining funds you have, they're already doing it with smart contracts, and now they're trying to do it on Hive with links that asks you to claim a drop and submit your Hive keys.
Hive or any other layer 2 project here is not running any airdrops, not ever, not today, not tomorrow.
I got a message from one Magi.network about a liquidity pool for HBD, and the first thing I did was to check before even checking why I got it.
Hackers are now even more than people who are legit, and some of these people wants to take advantage of what anyone has.
Hive & the return proposal
I decided to vote the return proposal on Hive after not checking it out for far too long. Basically any project that doesn't get votes above the current votes on the return proposal will not get funded.
You don't need to individually go to each proposal and place a sort of downvote on the existing proposals, just vote the current proposals to raise the bar and eliminate poorly funded proposals.
Although I think there's a huge drawback at the moment, which actually makes a lot of proposals pass irrespective of whoever votes the return proposal, but I actually don't want to go down that rabbit hole as we all already know it, but then vote the return proposal, no contributions will go to waste, as it continues to strengthen the return proposal.
Sometimes I feel the damage has been done, why? A lot of useless proposals have come, get funded and gone with nothing to actually show for it.
Those proposals may have done a lot of damage and some of the owners are cruising in Bahamas and having a fun time, retired already after being chronically funded by many years without them showing any single results for what they collected money for.
There were some of these accounts that actually ran these sophisticated scam ring, someone from their community once sent me a message about some of the scam they were doing, and a lot of these folks are presently no longer on-chain as they've probably gotten what they want and left.
I'd rather not mention names though, but I can't believe we fell for some of these friendly scams for so many years.
Some of them were funded before the return proposal kicked off in 2023, and they still continued getting funded by third party even though the return proposal was already in place.
These type of thing happen on steemit as well, and those guys left as well. The Idea is to strength the RP so that even if the stakeholders with millions of upvote power comes in, the RP will still hold strong.
This prevents the politics that comes with funding proposals without the actual approval of the community in general. While a lot of damage has been done already, it's still not completely too late. Thanks to 