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🧐 What a 🍾 2025 🥂 we had... 🤗
Can't even believe we are in the last month of 2025. Christmas is coming, the end of the year is coming, and 2026 is coming too! Summer is coming... So many things are coming 😍🫠🤤😁
Some days ago, I was given 3 crazy, still alive, freshly caught, Crayfish... (I am not affiliated with the website, just used for reference)
And these tasted like yummy... and being Portuguese, when you get these presents, it really feels like a little taste of going to my own cuisine and coming back, but with a species that is slightly different from the lobsters in the Atlantic.
It was prepped within less than 30 min (10 min cooking-ish), and then almost every part was used. Most of the main body, eaten like normal cooked fresh seafood, and then the claws and heads are torn apart to create a delicious "mix" that you usually season with mayo, beer, pickles, olives, boiled egg, and many other things. Something that is very common in seafood-based Portuguese restaurants, and that I loved so much.
Something like this (but bear in mind that there are MANY versions):
(picture from here)
This weekend, we got the tree up already... this time we went for a really small tree (but because these are for a good cause). And they are actually farmed in a local property in NZ, so there is no competition, and they are re-grown every year.
(you can use the browser version at https://www.snapie.io by the way)
I have been myself trying quite a lot of snapie, and I can tell you, this is looking so exciting. 
On the same topic of what happened in 2025, just a list of something that came to my head... not in any order, cause that would take me forever.
- ATX new distribution, cap modifiers announcements, staking enabled (will have usage in 2027), ATX:CENT pool created and some NFTs too.
- Attended HiveFest10 in Kuala Lumpur (check the community posts here)
- HardFork 28 happened!
- I am very close to getting a public Hive infrastructure I can share... maybe before the end of the year. Even if not yet my own structure, it will be the iterium one before I finish my version.
- Reached or achieved 100k HIVE in total...
- Achieved 100 Chests in
milestone that I have been enjoying! Plus, it's associated with HIVE rewards by having that much DCROP power.
- Kept running my full node HE witness (
), and Hive one too... and together with some other side chains.
- Was able to buy an OrangePi (ARM-based) board and run HiveD there!
- On the same board, the old VSC code is running in production, now called
(my witness there is called
)
- Enabled the first SuperComputer built from scratch by my team and me (having control from start to finish... was the big feat here)
- Have become (recently) a
encoder (you can check stats here) - if you want to help, let us know.
- Onboarded real users into Hive that are still active! And they are amazing people, I feel proud and enjoyed onboarding.
Lots more that I can't even grasp... but just to provoke you, why it's important to look at what you do, mostly for your own growth, not for showing off. Your happiness is/should always be first.
I did all these because I wanted, not because I was forced to... maybe the SuperComputer I was asked for... but I wanted anyway LOL...
Right, enough of me for now. This is the part of the post I usually switch to the right important parts, so I know who reads is really paying attention. 😉
🎲🎮🕹️ GAMES Games GAAAMMMESS!!
This section has been an ultimate "all over the place" one, but in essence, the main area of interest that kept me alive and fighting for you all.
The game of the year for me has been https://moon.hive.pizza for sure. And lately, I have been a bit spooky (no real reason), just got sentimental about it. It happens to anyone...
For me, this one has lots of memories. Apologies to some of the people I called names, without trying to understand first. Pretty exceptional to me... But I am human and got motivated about something, which is totally normal, but I should have known... instead of getting emotional. 😁
Ups...
Anyhow... great stuff came out of it. And I want to:
Discuss the direction of the MOON game (an oGame revamped game adapted to Hive rewards and able to be played differently).
On PIZZA discord, I have proposed the following...
Hi everyone,
I have a suggestion...
This is something I would vouch really important for any players. Players should be able to vote for how the game should be played. And I am going to suggest that is done via blockchain obviously!
Example, imagine that within X period (1 month) someone has the ability to say, "now only cargos can be built!", and then from then only cargos can be built, no defences, no any other ships!
Make a run for this on the next series... based on blockchain decisions and I am (at least me) going to have a great time.
Even if I loose! The importance is for anyone on chain to be able to vote. Make them to need PIZZA or PIZZA+HIVE stake to be able to vote... some sort of that...
That's right. Making everyone being apart of this creates the best possibilities of the game being distributed across other platforms and ultimately being shared for a wider audience.
Feedback here if you have an opinion about this. I will post this on blockchain too.
What do you think about it? I know it adds extra work for the MOON team to implement such things, hence why I am challenging people to discuss this openly...
I am a pro supporter of open discussions... and really enjoy them because I usually learn lots from them, and they help me understand what my motivations should be.
Let your ideas/feedback come into the comments section, even if you don't want to participate in the giveaway. It's fine... this is the best of both worlds about Hive... you can do both! And that's how I see posts... multi-tasking!
@dCrops has also been the thing!
I know many have seen the ways 
I play many games on Hive, which I have invested in, but I play as I would have not. The reason is simple... I want to be sure I can feel whatever experiences I am recommending to others are something I understand.
If you play this game and you need to learn more, 
https://www.dcrops.com/?ref=forykw
I need to add more power as I am already under 100 chests!
KiwiCon (now called KawaiiCon)
This month, I also attended a conference in Wellington that could be called a smaller (more like tiny) version of what the Defcon conference is. But it didn't stop to amaze me...
Around 3k people... and I knew almost NO ONE! Which is quite exquisite for me.
Learned a few things I didn't even realise... and I found this guy that was an X guy (formerly Twitter), and he made me realise a HUGE value missed on social networks that we can easily contemplate on Hive.
He brought a couple of important topics social web2 networks don't have... (and that we could easily implement or already have):
- Ability to tag metadata on chain (just like we do, using tags when posting, but in addition, using ANY tags people do on their comments/posts text, to index metadata that can then be used for either mining information or search results).
- AI Driven content... why do you have to search for what you are looking for? When can AI just show you what you are looking for? Yep, pretty big point and 100% doable right now on Hive! I can even ask Grok to show me the last Hive posts right now about whatever subject... so, it's here!
2.1. Can we automatically filter based on content or previous actions? Note, on X, even if you say "I am not interested in this", it then keeps showing you stuff like that... quite NOT WORKING!
2.2. Can we bring the time-sensitive first? Show me the stuff recent first that needs my immediate attention, and then the stuff I already lost track of... this should be SO easy! X does NOT have this yet too!
2.3. Can the experience be based on past experiences? I mean, yes, I have that "tell me every time this person posts" but that's quite disturbing if it does not add up to the last 2 points... Past experience is already recorded on the chain, so why not use it? - This one is a good one and already implemented (ish) on Hive front ends... Searching for your own content!!! Yes, X does not have that, for more surprising it might be. You can search all content, but not your own posts. On Hive, this can already be done. Ecency is the best one in my view.
- The last one is the deletion/customisation of threads and posts. Where on Hive this is already possible and on X not... You can edit the last post, but only within a specific timeframe and not forever. Why, because they don't keep the entire history of things... and that's why blockchain is better than X.
There is more I forgot, but this guy basically had it all... And I completely missed him with the entire crowd; otherwise, I would love to introduce him to Hive. He wanted to just implement the idea for free, which open source does the trick, so if I can get hold of him, I will try to get the idea reintroduced or try to give him a chance to know us.
😍 HiveFest10 Bonus!
Thank you, 
And some extra that only people on 
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Lot's fun... LOL
Including ... a World Record! 🤣
Wanna have fun and be a part of a larger family? Come on to the next HiveFest! I will try everything ot be there again.
🍺 BEER time
I have a special one for this one...
This was a really great one for me!
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😊 Forkyou™ in the next one 😉
Lots on this one... but it's getting huge! So I am going to cut it for now...
Really appreciate why people see what I do on chain... I don't brag about it, but I love the trustless communication.
NO new NFT on this one because I had no time for it... But I shall make a huge PowerUP!
Don't forget about powering up!
(https://powerup.hivecreators.co)
My 🖐️ motivation!
Have fun, play games, learn, and when possible, teach new things to newcomers, showing them how interesting this place can be. Check my own page too!
🤝 Follow me on X
Follow for #news about the #HIVE #Blockchain, and other stuff. I sometimes get crazy with what happens around social media. I am following all HIVE users! No promises of behaviour. 😁
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