I'm so overdue with my Hive Open Days recap post... And I will be a little more overdue... I got sick during the event, and unfortunately, that keeps me most of the time far from the keyboard and HIVE... The good news is that I'm slowly moving forward, small steps... Before giving some sweet love to all those great participants who were at the event, I will do what I do best... Give some hard love... 🙂 I know... It's not comfortable to get it, but it can be useful...
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I had this topic in mind for a couple of days, but I couldn't sit and write about it... Then, I saw that I had left one Ecency tab open for "later consumption," so it was time to read it... It was the latest post by 
I have to go back to #HODAlicante again, as that was the "turning point." At the event, we had a fantastic presentation by 
Also, I have noticed that most of the "public talk" was more about the community, about the bonds that connect people here, about the real "social aspect" of the chain... And to be honest, I was happy to see that... Also, in some of my talks, "on the spot", I shared some of the stories about "value beyond HIVE", which the event itself was the best proof! People around the world gather at the same place to enjoy in the company of their HIVE friends...
And then, a few days after the event, I open HIVE and see an AI-generated post by a FEW of newbies onboarded during the event! 😱 I don't know where we lost them during the event, and from where they got that, but it happened again... It's not the first time, and it will not be the last time... It's not THEIR fault, it's OUR fault... We are doing the same thing over and over again... We PITCH HIVE as a "blogging platform where you are paid for creating posts"...
Now tell me one thing... Is HIVE really just that? I don't know... To be honest, I got a bit demotivated and discouraged by this occurrence... I mean, I saw it many times, but I thought we left it behind, we moved forward... I know that HIVE is more than just a blockchain where you can write text into the blocks... But, selling it as a "blogging platform" is like trying to sell Blogger.com as something new in 2026...
In the biggest part, HIVE is a social media platform, where you can do the same as you do in any other social network... Accept for additional rewards (a bonus), it's the freaking same thing! It's so EASY! While Paloma's presentation was needed, it should be common sense that everything she said... It's kind of devastating that it needed to be said...
Why the f%#$ would you use AI for content creation on HIVE? It's a social network, we want to SOCIALIZE with YOU, and not with an AI! How can we socialize with each other if we exchange AI stories with each other? Unfortunately, I see the same thing happening all around, not just HIVE, not just other social media, but also in all ways of communication... And then we wonder why there is so much misunderstanding, why nobody listens to each other, why we don't enjoy others' company...
Part of my comment on Godfish's post was:
AI can be good, but unfortunately, it doesn't have hands... yet... It can't give you its shoulder to lean on...
Maybe we need AI to make us more efficient, more knowledgeable, but we also need a human touch, to make us humans... And in the end, just a few questions for those who "don't know how to start on HIVE"...
When you talk to your child, parents, or family, do you use AI to talk instead of you?
When your friend asks you for advice, do you talk from the heart, or do you give them a link to ChatGPT?
How do you make friends and relationships? Ask AI to deliver them to your address?
Sorry for the sarcasm, but I'm a bit fed up with the need for posts like this... Maybe I'm crazy and weird, but I truly felt a connection with my HIVE friends during the event, before and after... For me, some of them are like part of the family, and I can't wait to meet them again and have a good time...
What are your thoughts on this topic? Is HIVE only a blogging platform? Am I inventing something that doesn't exist? Did HIVE help you grow as a person, or was it just a waste of time? Please let me know in the comment section...
Let's see the WorkerBee Pool numbers for this week...
This week, we have mined 117 BEE tokens in total, 20 tokens more than the week before...
This week, we didn't get new delegators... As usual, we got additional delegations from old members! Thanks for your continuous support, guys and girls! I really appreciate it!
This pool doesn't charge fees, and you can earn up to 20% more by delegating to it!
What about the bonus tokens?
This week, I will distribute STARBITS tokens to the delegators of the pool... It is the main token of one of the oldest games on the HIVE blockchain (and my favorite), The Rising Star! If you don't play the game and don't need the tokens, you can always sell them on the market...
There will be distributed 5 million STARBITS tokens to the delegators of the pool as a bonus reward today!
5 million STARBITS tokens will be distributed as a bonus... The APR (without the bonus) was 8.408%, and when we added the bonus, it went up to 10.051%!
I have calculated the ROI approximately with medium prices for all tokens when creating this post... So, those numbers are valid if you bought WB and sold BEE tokens at the middle HiveEngine price... Currently, the BUY side of the WORKERBEE tokens is very thin, and it's hard to calculate the middle price.
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