The News

Happy Thanksgiving to our colonial friends.

Prices

There are signs of some recovery from the latest crypto crash. $HBD got back to the peg pretty quickly. I still wonder why the 'blue site' has any value.

I had been using Hypestat to see how Hive sites are doing. Some of the statistics around countries were a bit suspicious. There is also Similarweb which shoes Venezuela as the biggest country for Peakd. That sounds realistic, but the general site ranking is really low. We need a bit of SEO. It should help if people link in from other places.

There was news that Hive account@splinterlands have had to reduce their staff. The low crypto prices will hit a lot of projects that rely on income from usage. Most Hive dapps are not carrying advertising, so they do not have that income.

There will be a Hive meetup in London next month. Hive account@tdctunes has a gig in Brick Lane and we can meet at the venue beforehand. This is just providing a place for people to meet and talk with no special events that I know of, but it can still be valuable. I find that in-person conversations can be very informative as well as putting faces to names. Anyone can set up an event like this if they can find a suitable location. Let me know and I will advertise it.

My Hive account@proofofbrian bot has informed over 500 people of tag typos. It was just created for fun, but I hope it makes people think about checking their tags. I used the beem Python library to create it.

I have been playing around with Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter. I prefer open platforms and a fair few people I followed have moved over. I tried posting a poll on attitudes to cryptocurrency. It seems they are no so into it over there.

Friday Follows

Hive account@mynewlife posted a cool video of Hivefest. You may spot me in it.
My friend and musical collaborator Hive account@daniellemurray has been participating in a music post challenge. If you are wondering what to post about then look out for things like this as using the tags will get you seen by more people.
Hive account@molometer has some tips on recording guitar.
Hive account@epodcaster has been doing the podcast challenge that she originated. The aim is to do one for every day of November.
Hive account@airmatti has done a nice art nouveau style drawing.
Hive account@mikkolyytinen is also an artist with a darker style.