Business as usual at Hive HQ'S temporary Hivefest headquarters.
"Welcome to breakfast rally driver. How come you are in full kit when you are not driving? Did you do any rallies lately?"

"I always wear my overalls. Just the 2 rallies this year so far.

"And where did you come in them?"

"It doesn't matter but what matters is the the Hive car got plenty of coverage. Here is a photo of the car that got on our national newspaper"

"Hmmmmmm that car is smashed into a building with smoke coming from it and children running away crying?!?!? Is that a nursery???"

"Yes great Hive coverage. Many people onboarded."

What do you do for a living when you are not rally driving?"

I like cycling. Keep fit. Car hot in summer.

"I have been meaning to talk to you. Something has come up that deeply affects you"

"Ok I will only need 50k I promise, not 80k"

"Ammmmm about that. You are not getting any k's as the return proposal has been upvoted by 50 million Hive which has Valueplan not getting funding right now."

"Impossible"

"I too am surprised but the tap has stopped until we know what this guy is looking for."

"But I had a holiday planned for next week???"

"What has that got to do with the rally car?"

"Ammmm nothing forget I said it. This is shit. Really shit. Wife going to kill me. I go to Thorchain with Leo and get the funding. I don't need you guys."*

Haha nobody in their right mind would give you funding"

You did.

Ahem touche. Nobody else will.
"Now don't let the door slap you on your arse on the way out. And if you could put those bananas back in the bowl please. Those are for decoration."
Audrey , contact @innocent-individuals and tell him that Valueplan funding has stopped which means there will be alot of broke arses at Hivefest spending funds they don't have."
So what is the itinery for the day?*

Well at

11am we have spendHBD
12pm we have Leofinance
1pm we have the expensive boreholes wells.
2pm we have a performance from the GYM Street Workout who we flew over.150 of them.
3pm we have an update on the progress of chess/ Katan / Monopoly / snakes n ladders /monsters game by stan
4pm we have the devs talking about the power of Docker containers at 4pm.
5pm we have the Indian hackathon guys
6pm Large banquet.

Ok lets proceed as normal. We are flying blind at the moment here. A couple of witnesses are very quiet and they are usually moaning at me at this stage OF Hivefest. Nobody will really look up this guys wallet because his comments are not displayed anymore and everyone is sick of his shit.

11,55pm
.............................................................................................. "And this is how we plan to give a load of broke arse dodgy Venezuelans with 0HP funds to buy a bag of cans from fake shops with HBD for nothing. Thank you."
[Standing Ovation]
12pm Let me introduce to the stage Leofinance.
[A few claps is all]

No sign of Captain White Hoodie and his merry men.
Ammmmmmmmm unfortuately Leofinance have not shown up and are currently live streaming from the Thorchain conference in Oslo. But they do have a special guest in their place. Please welcome to the stage BPCvoter!!

[Multiple grumbles]

This was it. This was his time to shine. BPCvoter walked on stage to the shock of the Hive massif. With his Rolex submariner watch and his tailored suit he took to the stage fairly impressive. There were mumbles all round as the Hivefest attendees wondered who this guy was. He had just paid off the Leo lads with a modest sum of money to not turn up for their 1 hour slot but in the back of his mind he knew he was doing them a favour. He had also bribed the host to leave him on but that was easy as she had not slept for 8 nights- just come off two long haul flights all while negotiating 10 back to back deals for Hive and also freeing 100 children from the Lost City of Gold using just a whip and a mascara brush. But she didn't half go on about it.

"First of all this is not about Blipcoin. One or two of you would have noticed by now that I have effectively taken over at Hive. I have more HP than the top 100 witnesses combined. Many Hive witnesses have given me their keys for a blank cheque also under the condition that I have told them not to reveal themselves. I have upvoted the return proposal so DHF funding has effectively ceased and I will be doing a full audit with real accountants on every project to ensure there are no crusties draining the Hive ecosystem."

BPCvoter looked around and saw tears streaming from a number of people like they had lost their first born.

"Some of you would have also noticed I have downvoted all the witnesses posts in the past week but sadly there were only 3 that posted so it may have passed you all by."

BPCvoter started getting a few nods off the middle class Hive accounts which was very surprising although he could see the GYM Street sharpening their knives in the background so his time was limited.

Right now my IT guy has set up 40 witness accounts from my server farm on Idaho and I have effectively taken over from the platform. Now before you all fork which is what will happen. Remember this. I have 400 million more to play with on a nice shiny new forked crypto so maybe think about this before you hit the hard fork button. You can run but you can't hide. Who knows , Hive may be a better place with me at the helm. In all fairness you couldn't do a worse job if you tried with Hive. Ned was even better that our present overlords who preach decentralisation but with actions that decentraliation actually does not work.

With the exception of the 150 daggers being thrown at him from the audience primarily made up of those who were currently making a living draining Hive , the rest of the Hivefest actually thought bpcvoter had a very good point. Hive had been stagnating for years. why not embrace the change? The token was now trading at $4.55 which attracted people in itself without any marketing whatsoever. The cancelation of the DHF meant the token would increase even more while bpcvoter focused on a more centralised marketing approach. This was all good news.

"Hive is under new management. You will hear for me in due course. But for now my job is to protect the blockchain and do a full audit. I shall bid you good day."

And with that bpcvoter left the stage. Two of his Russian heavies blocked the path while he walked off stage and it was just in time as the Gymnasts bounced off them while they tried to attack. When bpcvoter exited the building a pair of full beams targeted him. He heard a rev and it was the rally car coming hurdling towards him. Bpcvoter's life flashed before his eyes. He was about to be a goner. He held his hands to his face and awaited the collison but he heard a bang. The engine had blown up and the rally car crashed into a wall. His looked around at his security and they were being swarmed by the Gym Street Workout. A high heel came hurdling towards him. It was the conference queen and she was out to get him. "You cannot take this away from me." They wrestled on the ground.
Just then a car pulled up. It was Hive account@haejin
"GET IN THE DAM CAR!"

"What are you doing here?"

I WILL EXPLAIN. JUST GET IN THE DAM CAR"

BPCVOTER scrambled into the car amidst the deluge of scratches and bites. He looked back at his Russian security who were now overran. He blessed himself when he saw that they were brown bread. He will pay their families handsomely for this. They will never go wanting.

We need to get you out of this city man.
You are a dead man walking.
Call the hotel and tell them there has been a murder. It will stall some time.
They will call in world mapping and figure out where we will go next. You need to go to somewhere you have never been before. They will know I will have rescued you by now and they will be currently unleashing the Shadowhunters to track us down.
Where is the place they can never find us?
I know, where is the last place they will look for the mighty villian Hive account@haejin

Bernies House.

Yeah we made friends in the end.
Where is that?

He's holed up on Solomen Island with the cannibals. The only place where the Shadowhunters and conference queen refuse to go! It's dangerous but it's our only chance.

Ok lets aim for there. Thank you for saving me.

No thank you for saving Hive. I may one day be able to post my charts again.

To be continued