Hive: Manipulation, Censorship, and Suspicious Funds 😱 The Hidden Truth!
📢 Welcome to Commenta La Notizia!
🚨ATTENZIONE 🚨
Posts will be demonetized from the outset to prevent anyone who FRAUDULENTLY abuses the system by improperly using downvotes with coordinated actions (DOWNVOTE BOMBING) from damaging users' intellectual property, compromising their reputation, and simultaneously stealing revenue from creators' posts and voters (curators). This is to prevent free and unlimited contributions from the creative and curated work of other ACTIVE users.
Anyone wishing to reward INDEPENDENT content can do so through the gift option or any other method that supports independent dissemination, such as delegating Ecency points or other means, which are always welcome.
Furthermore, anyone who has suffered harassment such as defamation, damage to their reputation, damage to their image, bullying, or any other offensive behavior against their person and identity, especially online, is encouraged to report it to the authorities in their country.
You are also invited to report this platform to the exchanges hosting Hive's cryptocurrencies, attaching details and screenshots of the illegal acts, possibly even with a previously filed complaint, if available.
An increasing number of users are reporting these despicable acts within Hive, often from accounts and multiple accounts used by numerous Hive WITNESSES.
Anyone who has suffered or is suffering similar acts can share their experiences on this or other information platforms, using evidence such as screenshots, videos, etc.
We also remind you that we remain open to CONSTRUCTIVE dialogue with ALL those who address the SUBSTANCE of the information raised.
Thank you for your cooperation!
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
[ENG]
Today, we will examine the hidden issues behind the Hive platform. While it is presented as a decentralized and meritocratic project, there are numerous signs indicating market manipulation, abuse of power, and censorship practices. Whether you're a Hive user or simply a cryptocurrency enthusiast, this article will help you understand the dynamics that might affect your experience on the platform. Pay attention, because what you’ll discover might surprise you.🙈
In the world of cryptocurrencies, decentralized platforms like Hive offer a promising vision of freedom and transparency. However, like in any digital ecosystem, there are emerging issues related to potential abuses of power, manipulation, and financial fraud. This article will explore how Hive's voting system can be exploited to manipulate the market, abusing the vote system and the flow of funds from influential accounts, as well as the influence of witnesses and the use of multiaccounts to manipulate the positions in the witness rankings. It will also address the damage caused to curators, who vote on content without knowing that their votes are annulled, thus reducing transparency and fairness on the platform.
By analyzing financial flows, power delegations, suspicious transactions, and the influence of witnesses, we’ll see how some users can influence the visibility and remuneration of content, undermining the integrity of the platform.
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
How Does Hive’s Voting System Work?
Hive is a blockchain-based platform that, in addition to serving as a content publishing system, also functions as an ecosystem for voting. Users earn Hive Power (HP), which represents their voting power on the platform. The more HP a user has, the more influence they have over content: their vote determines whether a post will earn rewards in Hive or Hive-backed Dollars (HBD).
However, this system, although designed to ensure fair distribution of earnings, can be abused by those who hold a large amount of HP. Downvotes, or negative votes, are one of the most powerful tools to reduce the visibility of content and its earnings.
System Manipulation: Coordinated Downvotes
The biggest abuse of Hive’s voting system occurs when groups of users with large amounts of HP come together to manipulate votes. This phenomenon, known as downvote bombing, involves a series of negative votes concentrated on a single piece of content, drastically reducing its visibility and rewards.
In particular, influential accounts can coordinate their actions to penalize content from other users. When negative votes are executed strategically, the effect is to damage the author’s reputation and reduce their earnings. This behavior undermines the integrity of the platform, where visibility should be determined by the quality of content, not by the voting power of a few users.
The Influence of Witnesses and Multiaccounts: Manipulating the Rankings
Another critical aspect that undermines fairness on Hive is the influence of witnesses. Witnesses are users who vote to determine who will have the right to validate blocks in the Hive blockchain, granting them a privileged position. However, many witnesses, through the use of multiaccounts, manipulate content voting, influencing the visibility of posts and rewards.
Many witnesses use their multiaccounts to vote for themselves, but also to vote for the content of other witnesses in a coordinated manner. This creates a sort of "closed system" where only those who are part of a network of multiaccounts and self-votes can maintain control over the witness ranking positions.
The practice of self-voting is also frequent among witnesses, who help each other by voting for each other's content, artificially amplifying the visibility of their own posts. As a result, it is extremely difficult for new users or content creators to emerge and surpass the witnesses already at the top of the rankings, as they benefit from an advantage in terms of votes and HP delegations.
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
🔥Unknowing Curators: Annulled Votes and Indirect Damage🔥
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Another serious issue is the damage suffered by curators. Curators are those users who vote positively on other users' content, helping to reward quality content. However, many curators, without knowing it, are harmed by the use of multiaccounts by other users. When these multiaccounts vote on content, they cancel out the votes of curators, preventing them from receiving the funds they deserve.
In practice, curators vote on content thinking they are rewarding valid content, but their votes are nullified by multiaccounts, creating a situation where only a few users benefit from the earnings. This manipulation not only harms content creators but also curators acting in good faith, reducing transparency and fairness within the system.
Centralization of Power: Delegations and Market Manipulation
Another concerning aspect is the centralization of power in the hands of a few users. Accounts with large amounts of HP can delegate their voting power to others, significantly influencing the visibility of content across the platform. This delegation system can be exploited to manipulate the market and direct funds toward specific accounts.
By tracking on-chain transactions, it is possible to follow the movements of HIVE and HBD between influential accounts and external wallets, trying to understand whether the funds are being manipulated or redistributed irregularly. This is particularly important to prevent practices such as money laundering or manipulation of funds for personal purposes.
The Outflow of Funds: Where Do the Funds Go?
One of the main concerns is the outflow of funds from key accounts. These accounts can move money to private wallets or direct the funds to external exchanges, creating a closed circuit in which only a few accounts control a significant portion of the value on the platform.
Suspicious transactions and money flows between influential accounts may indicate that funds are being manipulated or redistributed irregularly. If funds are moved to external wallets and then traded on the market, it could constitute financial fraud. These funds, often accumulated through multiaccounts and vote manipulation, could end up in the hands of a few, controlling a manipulated internal market.
Censorship and Manipulation: The Telegram Group and Their Self-Interest
Many users have reported suspicious behaviors within the Telegram groups managed by Hive witnesses. These groups, while claiming to have no ties to the Hive project, are driven by a network of multiaccounts that seek to control the ecosystem. Users who raise questions about multiaccounts, vote manipulation, or other issues are quickly blocked and silenced.
Many members of these Telegram groups have reported being scammed, possibly by external sites or people involved directly in the platform. These signals make us reflect on how deeply rooted manipulation is within Hive. Censorship, in fact, has been a frequent phenomenon since the beginning, with many users reporting over the years that their reputations were destroyed, their posts hidden, or they suffered penalties without being notified. The effect of this mechanism is devastating for the fairness of the system: it is a real censorship disguised as a "fair voting system."
Unanswered Questions: What Are They Hiding?
Until someone sheds light on these methods, the manipulators will continue to thrive undisturbed. Once the coins created artificially through these practices exit the system, they will likely be exchanged for other cryptocurrencies, poisoning the market and compromising financial stability.
The questions remain open: Why have exchanges never performed checks on these funds? Why has no one ever conducted an in-depth investigation into these fraudulent mechanisms?
It is crucial that the Hive community stays united and active in protecting the transparency and integrity of the platform. If you found value in this article, subscribe to the channel and follow our updates. Don’t turn your back, because if we don’t stay alert, the system will be manipulated and the market will suffer. Our community must take action to stop these harmful practices and protect the fairness of the project.
What do you think?
💬 Leave your thoughts in the comments.
🎥 Want to learn more?
Follow the Commenta La Notizia YouTube channel to discover comprehensive analyses and new insights into the most hidden issues in global current affairs.
Stay informed, share the truth, and help us build free and informed information.
🚨You'll find more details in the video.🚨
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
📺 Full video on my YouTube channel →
⚠️ Legal Notice: This article and related media are the exclusive property of the author. Copying, reproducing, distributing, or modifying it in any form or on any platform without written permission is prohibited.
Copyright © CondividiSulWeb – YouTube Comment on the News
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
👤 Author: @condividisulweb ✍️ Commenta La Notizia is my editorial project created to offer you clear and engaging insights on news, events, and major current affairs topics.
Every article, video, and short story is born with a specific goal: not only to inform, but also to provide context, food for thought, and analysis to understand not only what's happening, but above all why it's happening.
With Commenta La Notizia, I want to build a reliable and accessible space where anyone can learn, understand, and discuss together.
🌐 If you want to stay updated, you can follow me here.
💬 Your opinion matters! Every piece of news is a starting point for discussion: participate and share your voice.
📰 Comment, share, stay informed.
🙏 Thank you for reading: your time and opinions are the true value of this community.
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════
Stay tuned because:
FREE information CANNOT be CENSORED!
To Be Continued.......
SUPPORT FREE INFORMATION / SUPPORTA L INFORMAZIONE LIBERA
0
0
0.000
I expect you mean well, and the destruction of the Free Compliments community has deeply offended you, and I don't blame you. There is a difference between what if fair and what is fraud. I am sure you suspect fraud, but you do not present any proof, or even solid evidence, of any fraud. Using the word fraud then becomes pejorative, unproven salacious accusations without evidentiary basis. It borders on libel, to be honest.
There are ways to gain evidence and support your claims of criminal activity, and you seem not to provide evidence here of it. There is certainly unfairness and you can likely establish that with evidence that would be convincing to many, if not most, of the people you show it to. Again, you allege it, but do not prove it. As part of the Free Compliments community you can easily demonstrate your claims of unfair treatment with strong evidence. I don't disagree that many of the things you allege are in fact occurring, but rather than just making allegations, you should meticulously document such actions so that you can back up what you allege.
There are real allegations of theft by fraud that I have looked into and confronted Valueplan principals about. I was told they would never provide receipts to disprove fraud had occurred. I then publicly asserted that I would no longer vote for any DHF proposals unless they committed to using GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles, basically double entry bookkeeping) and would only vote the Return Proposal and recommended everyone else do the same. AFAIK I am the only one doing so. We do need to take action to secure Hive from fraud, and this is one effective and lawful way to do that. I hope you do it, and then you can honestly and forthrightly recommend to people that they do it too, so that the recipients of millions of HBD from the DHF have some constraints on their ability to commit fraud. Right now a kindegarten student could defraud Hive's DHF and we'd have no way to prove it.
Thanks!
Hello, I don't know who you are or what your role is.
However, I would like to inform you that LEGALLY, any act that serves to harm any user, their work, their intellectual property, their image, etc., such as DOWNVOTE BOMBING, is an ILLEGAL act punishable by various types of CRIME, with the aggravating circumstance of being carried out online, especially if it is done with multiple accounts!
Please remember that the project itself is not immune to money laundering or money creation from thin air, let alone account-to-account transfers.
I remind you and everyone else that all records are PUBLIC and these movements, posted several times by other users before I joined this project, have been carried out systematically and published since the project's inception.
I have provided some of the evidence (as far as I'm concerned) and it can be found in the comments on my profile; there are hundreds of screenshots.
Furthermore, some users are reporting the sudden disappearance of their comments from the platform; some accounts are even burning comments, despite the decentralization and lack of control.
As for FREECOMPLIMENTS, in my opinion, it was a good community, perhaps one of the few that rewarded users without necessarily having a BALENA account.
So, among the groups (2/3) that also rewarded newcomers if they wrote decent things and in line with the project's rules.
As for theft, since you vote engagably on a suitable article voted by 104 curators (including whales), especially if also voted on from the front end, if you delete the post just because you previously commented on an "Acidyo" contest where you said not to delegate MULTIACCOUNTS, and immediately afterwards find your posts demonetized FOR NO REASON, then there's more than one problem.
I'll list them:
In addition to having my posts blocked and not being able to view them, they don't even appear on reputation waves or elsewhere.
In addition to the constant "MARK" of attention, this user is blocked and has a low reputation value.
People don't know, so they move on. The users I asked for explanations were magically the same ones who have been playing the game on Hive since the beginning, some of them magically delegated by the famous buildawhale accounts. Screenshots are always present, like the self-votes they cast on each other.
The creation of value, in this case cryptocurrency from nothing, through multiple automatic voting is a crime, because it has different facets. That is, if any user engages in MANIPULATION with the aim of obtaining goods or services, they are committing a real crime.
I'm not talking about someone who, with a 100% vote, gets $50 or more to a friend (highly questionable) on the edge of legality, or someone who self-votes, obtaining money out of thin air (again, highly questionable, on the edge of legality, but we're talking about true, continuous coordinated voting).
But this can be seen by searching the records that remain public. Coincidentally, 90% of the users, many of them witnesses, who caused the damage to my account and to many others since the project's inception, have these transactions, proxies, and some of them don't even bother revealing their multiaccounts or exchanging amounts of coins between various accounts via transfers, in addition to being voted on and voting on their accounts and multiaccounts.
Returns of master keys and other internal things that aren't even worth going into.
These control accounts also serve to protect the community, therefore monitoring ESPECIALLY the WITNESSES and their actions: delegations, voting, multi-accounts, etc.
Instead, the controllers are the ones being controlled, so they take care of damaging accounts, especially new users, by making them RUN AWAY from Hive.
How?
They approach the user, especially the new one, and pose as THREATENING, implying, in addition to defaming them (I have also published evidence of this), implying to anyone reading the comment written by this control account that the articles are created by AI, thus justifying and justifying the actions this control account will take (this is unrelated to the facts listed above). Unfortunately, they don't always succeed, because technically trained users know they're lying.
Why do these control accounts lie?
They lie knowing they're lying. Because to date, no AI tracker is able to identify with CERTIFIED certainty whether an article is created by AI. So when the control account dares to make such statements to justify anything that will subsequently happen to any user, not only is it committing an offense by defaming them, but it is also committing another CRIME: inducing deception.
This is now, and more frequently than in previous years, being carried out by whale and witness accounts who arbitrarily downvote for pure entertainment.
They too are committing a crime.
For example, this post without monetization. Who gave it an unjustified, negative upvote?
Investigate ALL the actions performed by the three accounts that downvoted this already demonetized post to determine who controls them, and whether there are any transfers, delegations, etc.
Only in this way will we understand what these accounts are doing, what possible crimes they are committing, etc.
Obviously, I'll leave the work to you, since I'm not part of the hive staff or have any interest in it.
Returning to the controlling account, hivewatchers, when it realizes it has committed illegal acts and acted in an abusive manner, it will ask you to prove your identity by inserting the word Hive into one of your social media accounts to verify that it is you.
So what does this have to do with the IA article? It understands that the new user isn't as stupid as these "controllers" try to make out.
The modus operandi is the same because not only have I tried it in every aspect firsthand, but I've seen screenshots dating back 5 years that performed the same mode.
This mode also works on ALL Hive accounts, and there are numerous testimonials on hivewatcher/s.
They should also go and view the publicly visible logs and transfers.
It would be nice to do this for ALL the accounts that perform these actions, especially those that abuse the Hive system, which strangely aren't the users as they want the masses to believe, but in 90% of cases are WITNESS accounts! Strange, right?
This makes it clear that security and decentralization on Hive is just a mere, ad hoc fantasy, given that ALL these accounts have not yet been stopped and continue to HARMFUL PEOPLE.
If you haven't noticed yet, I'm not surprised; this can only mean you don't care about this project.
In addition to ignoring the visibility of what the constantly growing number of blocked accounts write, some of these blocked accounts have been disclosing EVERYTHING that happens on Hive for years, both in comments and posts.
Publishing proof, nicknames, screenshots, and even the days when these movements took place, and more.
Perhaps the creator of the DPOS should become more aware of what is happening and that the DPOS system, unfortunately, isn't the great decentralization solution it's been made out to be.
Unfortunately, to save Hive, we would have to do something different, adding protection and eliminating ALL WITNESSES and ALL their Multiaccounts, without any warning.
We would start monitoring ALL movements of large amounts and frequent transfers, following each RECEIVER and DELEGATER account one by one.
I'm only sorry I can no longer share my FREE, INDEPENDENT INFORMATION articles.
But surely the ENTIRE community is the one who loses out. In addition to my little idle chatter, cultural exchanges both on Waves and in posts, etc.
Unfortunately, money obscures the vision of the future and collective growth.
Hive is a simple and sad replica of reality, where a few people make money at the expense of an entire community.
Let's remember that a lot of money circulates on Hive, and that goods and services are also sold, both because front-end operators sell accounts, games, etc., and those who buy cryptocurrencies and much more.
Furthermore, in many countries, especially in the American and European regions, exchanges or transfers between anonymous accounts are illegal.
Not to mention the tax burden on declarations, etc., especially regarding compliance with the regulations of the countries in which they operate, which no one ever discusses as if they didn't exist.
We could talk for hours about the technical and tax aspects of the ENTIRE project—not just the things some people mention, but EVERYTHING!
Other obvious aspects and questions would be highlighted, further undermining this system, revealing further flaws and risks for the test users. These issues continue to be highlighted on FORUMS, TELEGRAM GROUPS, groups in general, here on Hive, on various competitors, etc., which increasingly show evidence of the same operating methods and report, in 90% of cases, the same identical witness and multi-account accounts.
I'm sorry I disagree with your vision and your clumsy attempt to discredit FREE AND INDEPENDENT INFORMATION. Before responding, you could have done a simple search, given that 90% of this information is scattered throughout Hive, especially in the comments they're deleting. I can already imagine the account that's burning comments! This obviously isn't an operation anyone can do, only master key holders. I hope you'll at least agree with this @condividisulweb
Ps. I hope you'll introduce yourself next time! And respond with greater awareness and preparation, given that I've only been here four months.
Have a good day.