The News
It has been another 'interesting' week on Hive. The $HIVE price could not sustain the January highs, but is still well ahead of the 'legacy' coin. $LEO is struggling too.
The big drama was around Hive-Engine that was out of action for a while. I got some details from the Rising Star Discord where this update from 
It seems that the rogue account spammed thousands of transactions that clogged up the chain. It seems to be working again after a limit on transactions was added. This sort of thing is hard to plan against. In this case it was a single account, but we know that some people control thousands of accounts that could be used like this. It is a lot of responsibility to run any system dealing with finance and it is likely to be attacked.
Friday Follows
I am going to feature drummers again as this is something I am into. I started a drumming community that gets a few posts. I really think that Hive needs to develop in distinct niches around an interest. There are huge drumming communities on other platforms and we can offer an alternative.
in Venezuela is a prolific musician with an amazing kit.
is also in Venezuela and posts some great covers of songs.
is an organisation of drummers in Venezuela. They have their own community and that is fine as it can focus on what they are up to. I do not mind people cross-posting to my one.
and
are both professional drummers in Italy who post videos of what they are working on.
has not posted for a while, but she was playing in an all female rock band.
is a new Hiver in Nigeria. He has posted about drumming, but I have not seen any videos from him yet.
Have you created any communities for your interests? It is not too expensive to do that, but you have to put in the work to get people involved. I think that communities have a lot of potential as it reduces the need to follow lots of people and the content can be moderated.
The Dog House
I will start by saying that this is not an attack on anyone. I want what is best for Hive. There have been various posts about the efforts by the Leo Finance team to on-board communities from other chains. They have had some success with $DASH already. They are saying that thousands of accounts were created last year, but others point out that hardly any of those have been very active and few have built up any significant HP. I could create hundreds of accounts, but that means little if they do nothing. Hive needs active people who are adding value with their activities. That value can take many forms. Plenty of people will talk about the lack of engagement on most posts, but it happens on other platforms. I would say that is partly down to the small community, but we have to start somewhere.
From my own experience of maintaining the #BritList I am not seeing any significant influx of new users. You would expect that at least some of them would set a location on their profile that my scripts would notice.
What I do not like to see is people having fights over such issues. InLeo has a large and active community that ought to be an asset. It is great that we have choice in how we interact with our blockchain. I happen to prefer peakd. There can be cooperation across projects for the common good and I am sure the teams talk to each other.
It is easy to point to issues with Hive, but we need to work on how to address them. I would say that a major one is gaining and retaining active users.
The End
I have not been posting about meetups in a while, but I can suggest looking in the Buzzparty community where they tend to get announce. I would recommend getting to one if you can.
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