Hivefest 7: to the Hive church, rum and coke Saturday, and final dinner, until we meet again

The Zuiderkerk was the venue of the second day of the conference. It was time for us to attend the Hive church. Arcange even held a little prayer with all of us. For those who have lost their keys or got their accounts hacked. Sometimes I wonder if people think Hive is a cult when they listen to me talk about it. Chuckles. Either way, the Zuiderkerk no longer serves its original purpose - holding the church services, and has taken the role of an information center and exhibition hall and hosts all kinds of cultural events instead.

And since the Zuiderkerk has pretty interesting ties with the legendary painters Rembrandt and Claude Monet (who painted the church as well), I made sure to dress like a painting that day! I felt like at a movie premiere or Oscar ceremony entering the church and walking on the red carpet by the entrance. I don’t know how Roeland manages to score these wonderful venues for us. This one was absolutely impressive! Right in the heart of Amsterdam!

The day was packed with interesting talks. Varying, from updates on curation projects and other community projects to a musical performance on stage by Hive account@steevc. Presentation on Satoshi Nakamoto (it focused on Craig Wright, meep, he is not my Satoshi, no way!). There were updates on fun games like Crypto Shots and Rising Star. I did not know about either of them until now.

The Rising Star started their presentation in a fun and surprising way! Hive account@steevc starred as an illegal busker on stage and was interrupted mid-song by a police officer! For a moment I thought it was for real because I did not know the context of what was happening, but then I learned that it was a little skit performed representing the events in the game! Well done! They had my full attention after that, and it seems like an awesome game!

And in my previous Hivefest post, I mentioned how Hive’s infrastructure sometimes is lacking or is a bit complicated for new users. I was very impressed with HiveAuth created by Hive account@arcange. This service makes the login and key signing process much easier and more secure.

Let’s say you want to use a device that is not yours or use applications that you don’t want to have access to your keys but still want to use them. You store your keys (memo, posting, and active, but never the owner key) in a trusted key holding app like Hive Keychain on your phone, for example.

Then you sign in through HiveAuth and it acts as a bridge between the devices on web apps. You want to borrow your friend’s laptop. You sign in on PeakD through HiveAuth. Type in your username, and a QR code pops up on the screen. You scan it with the Hive Keychain on your phone and it links the keys in your Hive Keychain on the phone to the PeakD on your friend’s laptop. No keys get stored on their laptop, but you still have access to your account.

HiveAuth also has some pretty neat features such as authenticating devices for a certain time, like 1 hour, for example. After the time has passed the log-in is no longer active until you make a new request to authenticate. I certainly see how HiveAuth can make people's lives and experiences on Hive better! Great job!

_{But here is a full stream from the second day that can be found on the official Hivefest Youtube channel if you want to take a peek at the fest experience and all the presentations.}

_{Hive account@tdctunes getting ready to play some analog tunes on his modular synth on the Hivefest stage. It was so cool!}