I gotta hand it to you! You have managed to achieve quite a number of #AutomaticWin’s (and some #Win's too!) from the time you registered your very 1st 10,000 steps before 10am until now! I’m so proud of what you (and everyone else who participated in these fitness initiatives) has achieved over the years! 🙌
Today is a milestone however... and I wanted to take the time to personally thank you for being a part of @AdventureReady’s mission to reward intentional fitness activity on the Hive Blockchain! We have been doing this for just over 3 years now and it’s been amazing to be a part of so many people’s fitness journeys (including yours!)
THANK YOU! 🙏
As mentioned above this is a significant day for me because it is the day that I have finally decided to make some VERY difficult decisions.
@AdventureReady & @BeachReady are a HUGE part of my heart and as a certified fitness professional I have considered them to be extensions of myself (my digital arms and legs so to speak!).
These fitness entities encapsulated a personal dream and sparked ideas in me that prompted me to rise early and go to bed late day after day after day... this was (and still is!) my passion project!
So, you can imagine how excited I was to find the Hive Blockchain when I did!
It was the beginning of an exciting quest actually... I wanted to see if it would be possible to send my clients value for being active (BE NOW!) and sharing those fitness adventures with their friends, family’s, and famous here on Hive!
I wanted to see if I could build small achievable #Win’s into people’s days and do it in such a way as to encourage healthy fitness lifestyles around meaningful activity!
That was the vision and still is to this day.
However...
After being an owner on this blockchain (for close to 4 years) I have come to the realization that Hive has a long way to go if it is to achieve the mature social environment necessary to realize and truly support those sorts of aspirations.
Entrepreneurship requires a lot of personal effort, capital investment, and risk. It is a fragile endeavor and that is why BUIDL’ing in a healthy supportive social environment is so imperative to the success of any venture!
And that is why I have decided to make a line in the sand...
So long as Hive’s social structure continues to be governed by the raw exposure to an unsophisticated down vote, I am given no other recourse but to discontinue any and all of @AdventureReady and @BeachReady’s operations on the Hive Blockchain and move them elsewhere.
This means that I will, regrettably, no longer be awarding and rewarding the #AutomaticWin, #Win, #miniCHALLENGE, and #HighFive achievements here on the Hive Blockchain.
It has taken me a couple months to decide this and I have toiled back and forth and lost a lot of sleep over this decision.
This is not the outcome I had envisioned for my fitness companies but I do believe that this is absolutely necessary moving forward.
I personally believe that freedom of thought (not to mention the full and functional use of our capital in the form of a poweredUP account) can not happen while larger accounts can “own” smaller accounts at will or whim via the implementation of a DV that has no checks and balances.
We need a user-friendly Hive that preserves all the values we stand for on this blockchain!
Freedom, censorship resistance, true decentralization, and the ability to own our own voice, and speak openly to our own audience without abusive oversight.
This, I believe, is the blockchain we all deserve and have invested in.
This is my rational and reasoning for making this very difficult decision that I am making.
If you have anything you would like to ask me or if you have any input I would of course welcome this.
Kind regards and keep on stepping in the free world my friend!
P.S. If you would like to read some of my (and others) thoughts about HOW we could implement Hive Security and continue to innovate better more user-friendly ways to implement the DV please read my comments on theycallmedan’s post. My comment is near the top and easy to find. 👇
@theycallmedan/a-bit-of-a-rant
As well here are some more of my thoughts on the matter of plagiarizing, the creative process, the abusive power structures forming around the DV, and what could be if we see Hive for what it actually is... a once in a lifetime opportunity to innovate new and better ways to human. 👇
@purepinay/a-valuable-lesson
RE: My Actifit Report Card: October 3 2021