RE: Great Way to Welcome Artist to Ecency!
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I’m glad he’s here too. It’s also a Stuckist’s duty to harness and ride the Internet, so I hope he stays on.
I still don’t understand what Ecency or Hive is. Hive is the coin?
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You are asking the wrong person. I know as little as is necessary to get my kicks out of being here. It sure is not for remununeration! Unless you like to kiss asses. Which I cannot see your doing.
I'll tell you what I think I know. The Hive blockchain is a data storage system. It stores, forever, or for as long as electricity is a thing, anything that happens here. The Hive blockchain is powered by a cryptocurrency token called the Hive token. This token can be stored here either as totally liquid (you can send it anywhere on a whim, and that is the first line in your wallet) or powered up (same as staked) which is in your wallet as HP. The amount in HP you have determines your upvote value, and affects how much you earn from your upvotes on other accounts. (Don't upvote yourself or you will bring down the wrath of the whales, who don't like it when an account makes another fraction of a penny by upvoting itself. Then you get the downvotes. Enough on that malarkey for now.)
There is also a stabilizing coin, the Hive Based Dollar (HBD in your wallet), which is usually valued at around one dollar, USD. Watch out when that value goes down! All hell breaks loose around here! It looks to be dropping now, it has been somewhat unstable. If you stake your HBD, it will earn 15% interest, which is cool. I do that.
A look at your wallet shows that you have not claimed quite a bit of HBD. If I were you, I would claim that and stake it to make interest, some unsolicited advice for you. Unstaked HBD is liquid, so you can send it also anywhere on a whim. I can see that you sent a very generous amount to Edgeworth. He might consider staking all of that, or most of it, so he doesn't run out of "resource credits" and become unable to do anything at all. This may have already happened to him.
Gotta run for now!
EDIT: I meant to say Edgeworth might want to swap his HBD for Hive and then to power that up.
I think I asked the right person.
I know/knew so little about wallets, and that’s typical for me. I can’t balance a checkbook. So many checks bounced during the first decade of my adult life! Money and me do not jibe.
You can unsolicitly advise me any time. The bag of nickels has earned you my trust, for what that is worth:)
You now know everything I know about Hive.
As for the nickels, you didn't mind that they were unartfully sent to you in a baggie, wrapped up with a rubber band? I agonized over that for a while. Tried putting them in a small ball jar, but that wouldn't fit in the box. Looked for ribbon to gussy them up, and found I had none. Considered making a drawing to go along with them. Finally decided the concept was the art and off it went to you.
Your trust means a lot to me!!!
No, I didn’t mind. In fact, they’re already tucked away in my latest “career box”. It’s where all my accolades reside. These boxes go to posterity, along with just a few paintings. The rest need to be culled asap:)
Culled. How does an artist live with that word? Have those that are to be saved been identified already?
My nickels are earmarked for posterity? You could buy half a cup of coffee with them.
Ha! I’ll forgo the coffee for memories and gobble someone else’s chocolate for the caffeine.
I’m a mix between painter and knapsack monk. I see both lives in me, and less baggage means more empty knapsack.
Keeping my work around is too much an outward expression of an inner vanity, and sometimes that depresses me. I’m the same with all my possessions/shackles.