On the prices front nothing much has changed. $HIVE and its legacy cousin have been tracking each other, but a gap is opening up now. I hope that widens.
I like to see people doing interesting things with Hive. At its heart a blockchain is just a decentralised database and can hold any sort of data. Most of the data on it will be posts, votes, financial transactions and game data, but it has been exploited for things that will not directly earn from it. One of those is that distributes information on new podcast episodes. Now we have the idea of Zingit that would log when a user plays a music track. This is something like last.fm (formerly known as Audioscrobbler) that I have used for over 20 years. There are apps that can log when you play music online or locally so that you can get statistics on what you have listened to. It would be much better to have this in a more open form that does not depend on one company. Some people may be dubious about the value of this for Hive as it will make the blockchain bigger, but each play just needs to store a little bit of metadata about the song.
As I understand it each transaction requires some resource credits, but I am not sure if that is related to the size. I think the cost goes up when the system gets busy to deter some types of attack, but I do not know all the details. I am happy to be educated.
This is one I have mentioned before, but we have to keep warning people about fraudsters. I was asking on the Discord about an issue with voting trails (great feature!) and some random account popped up trying to direct me to another channel. That should be a red flag as I was already in the support channel. They will probably try to get you to expose your keys to steal your crypto, so do not fall for it. It was good to see that this user was almost immediately banned and I assume that was some automated process. Other channels may not have that and it can be hard to deal with when almost anyone can join a channel. Anyway,
dealt with my query. I just needed to adjust a setting and then everything worked.
I have always said that I lay no claim to the #followfriday tag and am happy for others to use it. There is only so much I can find and read on Hive so I will miss plenty. Discovery can be tricky here so it is up to each of us to help others find cool posts and accounts.
That said, I can be pretty active here, but then I enjoy the community even when I am not making that much. I have always seen Hive as having value for anyone who has something to share and so I want it to grow. I really do not mind if that means I make less as I have done pretty well. We need quality content to attract a wider audience.
Enjoy your weekend and Hive five!
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