The News

Happy Friday! The crypto world got excited again as Bitcoin went up over $50k. That seems to be dragging others up, but at a slower rate. $HIVE is up a little, but has been better in recent months. I have various coins tagged in my 'portfolio' so I can see how they are doing. I really think $HIVE should rank much higher. I cannot believe that over 300 other coins have better utility.

There have been some issues around Hive this week. A server run by Hive account@arcange got hacked, possibly by ransomware, and he is trying to get it back up. One thing it hosted is Hive account@hivesql which provides data used by various other dapps. So Hive account@hivebuzz is down and it seems that some token distribution is disrupted. We have to hope that this will be resolved soon, but it may encourage people to work on building in more redundancy.

I just saw that Hive account@reverio are shutting down their Q&A dapp. I have not used it much, but at least all the data will remain on the blockchain, so somebody could make use of it.

On the plus side, Hive account@keychain have an updated app with a new look and more features.

As we are on social media I thought this was interesting. He generally does satirical videos, but there is a lot to what he says here about how the big platforms are operating. I find FB almost unusable these days due to all the ads and 'suggested' content. I have almost given up on Twtr except to support some activities promoting Hive.

BTW He is actually talking about taking the apps off your phone so that you are not checking them every few minutes. As he has content to promote he is active on various platforms, but not on Hive, yet.

Friday Follows

• Hive account@jfuji is kicking off UNHIDE to coordinate making Hive more attractive. Even if there is no big marketing budget we can work together on sharing information to help new users and to publicise the platform.
• Hive account@basilmarples is one of many people taking part in the Vibes music contest run by Hive account@lordbutterfly. Part of the objective is to get more people to join Hive to take part, so notify your musician friends.
• Hive account@gregscloud has a challenge based around kindness. That is something we need more of.
• Hive account@paolobeneforti has a new comic that is very atmospheric. I am a big fan of his work.

The Dog House

It is always nice to get comments on your posts, but they need to be sincere. There are some people who regularly comment on mine, but what they say could have come from an 'AI' bot. They show no sign that they did more than look at the title or a picture. When you look at their accounts you may see that they made several comments over a couple of minutes, so they cannot have actually read much. This seems to be mainly a numbers game as they may get some rewards for activity. They will not get votes from me. Names are hidden to protect the guilty.

I would always encourage people to follow those they find interesting or to parimage.pngticipate in communities for what they are into. If you make Hive fun then you will want to be active and it can even be useful. Use it as you would other social media and take the rewards as a nice bonus. If you are purely driven by rewards then you may not get far.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/hive

The End

I hope you have a good weekend. Do not always be thinking about what you could post about here. Just enjoy the moment. Life is short and has to be experienced.

Hive five!

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