Follow Friday: Unstable Genius

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The News

It was good to see some improvement in the $HIVE price this week. Most things are up. That may be helped by some cryptocurrency legislation in the US, but that seems to be mainly about regulating stablecoins as I understand it. The 'Genius Act' seems like another one named by a 5 year old.

Prices from @coingecko

You can see that $LEO is up a lot as they have stopped generating it and I think they are buying it to pay rewards. I hold a little, so that boosted my Hive Engine balance. I hold loads of coins there, but most are worth very little. I see people adding tags to posts to get such coins, but the rewards are tiny. My @proofofbrian bot catches a lot of people spelling a certain tag wrongly.

At the last Hivefest we had a preview of the documentary (or here) made by @mynewlife about the project led by @mcsamm to create water boreholes in Ghana. We need to get that out to the world so it gets many thousands of views. Post it everywhere.

There is a Hive meetup in Alicante (Spain) next April. There is an experience to be won and people new to Hive get free entry.

Friday Follows

  • I see a few people posting weekly roundups about Hive and crypto on a Friday. I mention @gadrian most weeks as he covers a lot of Hive news. @bozz also does one that covers various things he has invested in, not just crypto.
  • @meno is a busy man. As well as his cool Hive Snaps mobile app he is working on a simple payment app to let people spend their $HBD.
  • Cartoonist @sidekickmatt is looking for people to collaborate on creating a comic universe. I do not see too many others working in that area apart from @northwestnomad, but there may be some who want to get into drawing comics and this could be an opportunity to share ideas.
  • @ph1102 did a nice interview with @alessandrawhite what I listened to live. She has run the Creative Work Hour on Zoom for years where creative people can meetup every day. She is on her travels again and was at a bit clarinet conference in Texas this week.
  • On the music front @ale.dri has a cool drumming track, @nupulse put out another song and @harbiter covered a Muse song with vocals by @david.dicotomia. I keep saying that we should support music on Hive if we want more professionals to consider being here. We have a few, but most will not know about it. That also applies to other creative professionals such as comic artists.
  • New Hivian @idleraiders is working on a dungeon crawling game.

The Dog House

In the dog house every week is anyone who tries to spam Hive with anything. You will get downvoted and everyone will block you, so there is no point. As Hive grows the RC cost of posting may well go up, so mass spamming may not be viable without buying a lot of HP. We can each help out with dealing with such issues.

The End

I could find plenty to include this week so I hope you found something of interest. I do not claim any exclusivity to themes like #followfriday. I want to see others reporting on cool people and news they find on Hive as I will not see it all.

Enjoy your weekend and Hive five!

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I haven’t seen it yet, but this movie might be quite something: https://ecency.com/hive-176874/@mcsamm/it-is-finally-out

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I linked to that :) It is good.

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Thanks for the mention, Steve! It was a great show with Alessandra, and I'm glad you liked it!

Cartoonist @sidekickmatt is looking for people to collaborate on creating a comic universe. I do not see too many others working in that area apart from @northwestnomad, but there may be some who want to get into drawing comics and this could be an opportunity to share ideas.

This sounds interesting... I like comics and I will try to check this out... Always interested in collaboration with artists... 😉

Thanks for the follow-up news!

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Comics ought to be bigger on Hive as people can reward them directly instead of relying on ads like elsewhere. We had some others in the past such as @joyoftech. I like to have fun stuff in my feed.

!BEER

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Thanks for the recommendations! Followed all 3 accounts you mentioned!

When I go back from vacation, will take a deeper look!

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I thought the Leo price might rise but thought to steer clear of it based on past performance!

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I've had some anyway and earn a little from it, so I'll take this as a win. Maybe I'll sell some and use the funds elsewhere. I've not even looked at InLeo recently as I don't have the time.

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Thanks for the mention @steevc. Yes it could be nice to see another golden age for crypto and mostly for HIVE, this awesome platform and community deserves it 🙂

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There's a great music community here and Rising Star has helped with that. Keep on rocking!

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My @proofofbrian bot catches a lot of people spelling a certain tag wrongly.

This one caught me once too a good while back! Since then, I pay attention when writing that tag, lol. These days, it's important to still have proof of brain.

I thought I followed Bozz... Hmm, mind tricks.

As Hive grows the RC cost of posting may well go up, so mass spamming may not be viable without buying a lot of HP. We can each help out with dealing with such issues.

Maybe we will live the days when RC will become scarce.

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My bot only responds once to each person as it keeps a list.

I think I'm right that Hive manages high traffic by making transactions more expensive, but I am not sure how much that has happened outside test nets. It is bound to come under attack again, but I think more defences were added since the last bad one.

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It's great to see efforts that welcome newcomers into the Hive ecosystem with free entry perks.

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it's nice to see hive price up... i there is hive-echo initiative to boost up that project, i think it's worth help there!

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As I have said, we can each do something to help Hive. Don't wait for others to go first.

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Alicante in April, I should be able to make that one! I was going to work on something with @harbiter and @ale.dri - haven’t forgotten and will get back to it.

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That's true! I'm pretty busy in this period but I didn't forget too. We should find a way to speak the three of us together and start this collab. Some kind of group chat somewhere. It's a shame that the messaging part on Hive works so bad and I use Discord very rarely...

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Let’s work something out, might be September

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Thanks for your effort and support Steve! 🙏

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The $HIVE price is on a very good track with an improvement of 21% and rising.

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