Week through Adrian's Lenses (14-20 December 2024)

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This is the #102nd edition of the "Week through Adrian's Lenses" weekly Hive and crypto news roundup.

Let's see what we have for this week. We cover:

Hive

Best Hive Memory 2024
Hive - Physical World
X Giveaway
Hive Core
HafSQL
Hive P2P
PeakD
Top Comments
Censorship
Eddie Earner
Splinterlands
Holozing
StakeHouse Den
Golem Overlord
Exode
WOO
SoulKeep

Crypto

Jerome Powell
El Salvador

`Week on Hive`

21 of 42 tracked posts made it to this week's issue of the "Week on Hive" roundup.

`In the Spotlight`

Best Hive Memory of 2024?

Hive account@hiveio started a challenge to write about your best Hive memory of the year. This is a sort of a tradition at the end of the year, so see if you want to share yours.

If you need a highlight to inspire you, here's the aftermovie of Hivefest 9 from Split, Croatia. Maybe that sparks some memories... I wouldn't want all best memories to be about Hivefest though, since most Hivers didn't attend. 😀

`Marketing / Awareness / Branding`

Hive's Expansion to the Physical World

The 18th borehole in Ghana that was sponsored by Hive was inaugurated recently and talked about in local media.

I haven't seen much Distriator activity from Europe (other than The Kingdom in Krakow), that's why, when I see something coming from the old continent, I'm happy to include it in here. That's a coffee place being added plus a guide that can be shared to other businesses.

New shops continued to be listed to Distriator in Nigeria, but I won't insist on that since I already covered the topic (with different shops) in the previous edition(s). They are however important developments, since Nigeria is the country with the 2nd highest crypto adoption ratio in the world, after India, and Aba city seems to be highly active for SpendHBD, helped by a good and well-organized local team.

Speaking of Nigeria, look how easily you can gather a good number of well-educated folks out there for an event about Hive.

50 HIVE to be Won on X...

... if you complete these tasks and get selected.

`Governance / Development / Dapps / Education`

New Hive Core Devs Meeting

The non-consensus changes to HiveD were days away at the time of the meeting. The hard fork itself is set for February 8th, but likely it will be pushed further down the road because the Bloadtrades team still has something rather big to work on that they want to include in this HF.

Hive account@howo missed the meeting, but added in bullet-point style what he's been doing, and he says he has almost completed coding the Rosetta API which is a prerequisite for being listed on Coinbase. He says it will be finished this month. That doesn't guarantee any listing, we must re-iterate.

Here's the recording and transcript in his post.

HafSQL Update - Breaking Changes

Hive account@mahdiyari updated HafSQL to use the new REST APIs instead of JSON RPC methods. Database tables and views have changed too. All these are breaking changes compared to the previous version.

The new version wasn't live at the time of his post, since HAF 1.27.6 wasn't released.

HiveCuba's P2P Payment System Reaches Venezuela

The P2P payment system (a Telegram bot) implemented by Hive account@hivecuba to tranfer between HBD and Cuban Peso and vice versa, is now available in Venezuela for their currency Bolivar, via Web3 Labs. You can read more here (Spanish only), and find a guide here.

PeakD Ad Test

PeakD concluded their first ad test without good results, monetarily, but without complains from users either. Of course, this first test was for visitors and users who opted in. They will continue with a second test for logged in users as well, with the possibility to opt out. If results will be equally poor, they will remove ads altogether.

New Service for Rewarding Top Comments

Hive account@topcomment is another service to reward top comments, on top of/distinct from Hive account@commentrewarder. The way to use it is to mention @topcomment in a reply to the comment you'd want upvoted by the bot. It doesn't have a high HP for now, so use it especially if you don't have enough HP to upvote yourself. I think there should be some restrictions to prevent abuse (like someone invoking the bot for many comments of the same author, over and over again). Here are more details.

One of Our Witnesses Might Move Away from Malaysia due to Online Censorship Laws

Hive account@techcoderx shared this with us. He is considering moving to another country rather than hosting his infrastructure abroad, to protect himself from potential legal issues. His question stands: What if the same happens in the next country and so on?

Eddie Earner - New Token, Nothing Changed

If you had/have EDS tokens, you probably know the story. If you don't, it might be news to you: the token for the Eddie Earner project is now EDSI, not EDS. Overall, nothing was lost, other than the fee to create another token on Hive-Engine, and maybe the trust of some people who may expect human error to not happen, ever. Of course, maybe something like multisig would be better to avoid such mistakes?

`Games`

Conversation with Matt

Hive account@thepeoplesguild had Matt Rosen as their last guest of the year. I haven't had time to listen to the conversation yet, but I hope it was interesting...

Longterm Vision for Holozing

Acid describes what the long term vision for Holozing is from now on. The first surprise is that the healers will be minted on Ethereum instead of on Hive, hoping to attract more capital from there based on the model of Splinterlands with Runi. I'm not so sure this is a good idea. Runi was not mandatory to play any part of Splinterlands and I didn't buy any. Healers are mandatory to play Holozing, and Ethereum fees are what they are... And Runi wasn't really a success, most purchases being made by players (mostly whales) already in the game.

Otherwise, some interesting plans to offer easy sign up methods, and physical collections alongside the digital ones. It's worth to read entirely, I couldn't really summarize everything that is good to know.

StakeHouse Den Pack Presale

There is a pack presale going on for the newly proposed and accepted by stakeholders game on Arcade Colony, StakeHouse Den. The presale extends until Jan 31st, and is reserved for max 25k packs, 50% discounted. The presale pack price is 2 SCRIPT or 2000 CREDITS. The sale is on Arcade Colony website. More details in Arcade Colony discord.

Golem Overlord Introduces a Content Bounty System

It's an actual system added in-game, with bounties for the best content they select that respect the rules. Check it out!

Exode Sells 1 Market Node

That is the only market node to exist for a good while, the post says, but plans are there will be more, thus the term used is "decentralize", even if we are talking about 1 node...

WOO Looking Back at 2024

WOO wrote a post with their main highlights of 2024. Do you remember WresleCon?

SoulKeep Updates

The free tickets have been removed from tournaments. Now, every entry into tournaments costs some DEC. They will also make a decision on multi-accounts and bots since that is obviously an issue, the way rewards are distributed.

`Week in the Crypto World`

Fed "Is Not Allowed to Own Bitcoin"

Jerome Powell set the tone for the recent deep dive of bitcoin (and by contagion, alts), when he said Fed "Is Not Allowed to Own Bitcoin" as a response to calls to add it as a strategic reserve.

El Salvador Made a Deal with IMF at the Expense of Bitcoin

El Salvador is no longer the pilot country where BTC is legal tender. IMF has put an end to that. Businesses are no longer required to accept BTC (but they can do it voluntary), taxes can only be paid in USD, not in BTC, the Chivo wallet will be "sold or wound down". And more... Hey, the anti-BTC forces have been hard at work this week...

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