A series of posts regarding Hive, Splinterlands, me, and you!

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As a result of a complicated series of negative events in my life I took a step back from hive. I stopped witnessing something like 6 months ago, which was a first for me after ~7 years of witnessing. I stopped posting as frequently. I stopped voting Hive posts. I stopped witness voting and I stopped proposal voting. I even stopped my beloved Meme the News posts.

I still worked on various projects I've built on Hive, but I stuck to the projects rather than the blockchain. I've had to write about 1,000 pages of legal documents, and it required a major undertaking to develop new understandings in law. I think my brain is fundamentally rewired as a result.

By taking a step back I’ve had some time to clear my head and think through some things. This is the part of my journey where I return home and reintegrate with new knowledge and experience. This reintegration is partially out of necessity and the timing of the Splinterlands proposal, it's in part because I think the biggest altseason of all time is about to impact us, it's in part because I have new knowledge and understanding, and a big part of the timing is having had a long enough mental break to clear my head. There’s likely to be some gnashing of teeth, a lot of gnashing of teeth, but I imagine there's a good number of opportunities as a result as well.

I think Splinterlands will thrive in this upcoming market. I think it’s imminent. My guess is that giant geopolitical events are about to unfold and those events prove out to be highly fortuitous to bitcoin and crypto. My guess is that Splinterlands will once again become a powerhouse for play to earn gaming and drive adoption and use of Hive. This run will be especially potent as all the work developing the fly wheel will kick into high gear during an insane bull run. If this vision of the future comes to pass Hive will have a powerful ally in Splinterlands and I'm hoping you'll choose to support Splinterlands along this journey as it will have a massive beneficial impact on Hive and Hivians.

What’s the plan and what am I talking about?

When I was working for the largest chemical company in the world I had a boss that shared a simple format for public discourse. His strategy boiled down to this-

Tell them what you’re going to tell them (we are here)
Tell them
Tell them what you told them

I have a series of things to share and want to lay them out in a series of posts over the next few days. This post is me telling you what I am going to tell you.

Methodology

I’m going to pose a variety of hypothetical questions and then answer them. If you have constructive questions to add along the way feel free to leave them as comments and I may add them to the queue. The questions are meant to do a few things-

Air out grievances, find compromises, build support, and grow the chain with Splinterlands at the Vanguard

  • Air grievances and respond.
  • Grow support for the Splinterlands Proposal
  • Share some of my concerns over the current governance of Hive,
  • Re-engage Hive in a positive way. Unburdened by what has been.

The questions I plan to ask and answer in order to summarize the complaints and concerns around the Splinterlands Proposal include:

  • What constructive criticism has been posted about the Splinterlands proposal?
  • What are some of the root causes that make a handful of powerful whales adamant about blocking the Splinterlands proposal?
  • Particularly address my experience in how it seems/feels like a lot of the negativity is personally directed at me rather than at the project.

The questions I plan to ask and answer to Support the Splinterlands Proposal include:

  • What is urgent about the Splinterlands proposal?
  • What does Splinterlands do to support Hive?
  • How does the Splinterlands Proposal help Hive?

The questions I plan to ask and answer to highlight my concerns around Hive governance include:

  • What is decentralization?
  • Why is decentralization good for projects?
  • How can you measure decentralization?
  • How decentralized is Hive right now?
  • What is the appropriate use of stake?

The questions I plan to ask and answer to reengage Hive include:

  • Why should anyone care whether Aggroed is active or not?
  • What’s my positive vision for Hive?
  • How can that vision be realized?
  • Aren't you just being selfish by doing this now?
  • What are the key benefits I bring to this platform?

Objectives

Particularly in light of President Trump’s recent speech before the bitcoin community I believe that unprecedented amount of support for Crypto is about to drive it to absurd all time highs. That was the single most important speech I've heard regarding bitcoin and crypto in my lifetime and Trump sets up the United States Government to be one of the biggest allies to crypto in the world. It's essentially a 180 degree turn from the shit this industry has put up with from the likes of Gary Gensler and Elizabeth Warren. It's a remarkable turn of events that just occurred.

Crypto turning into an election year issue, setting reasonable legislation and regulation in place, and getting one of the most powerful governments in the world active in helping the industry succeed sets forth a range of outcomes to me and induces my brain to ask the question "how high can Hive go?" We've fallen pretty low and need to 15X to get back to the Hive all time high, but it's not uncommon for blockchain projects to go 100-1000X in bull markets. So I'm left daydreaming about "What is the penultimate outcome for this project if this community can work together to grow?" And my answer is at the high end of that range.

I want to be in a solid position to promote Hive and Dapps. A strong Splinterlands is essential to maximizing success of this next run for Hive, a case I will make down the line in a separate post. I hope to convince you that working together is to the benefit of all of us.

Please stay tuned for my second post, which will address spoken and unspoken concerns that community members have or likely retain regarding me personally as well as some vocalized constructive criticism of the Splinterlands proposal. If you have concerns, please bring them to me and/or Matt, or post them publicly so that we have the opportunity to take your words into consideration. I'll try to shake the rust and demonstrate high standards in the process.

In the meantime please take heed of the following notice:

People that are actively blocking the proposal and refusing to give any feedback or have any discussions on the matter will see votes removed. Constructive criticism is welcome. Silent stonewalling, false claims, and ad hominem attacks will lose votes for their witness and project proposals. Further, I would prefer not to have trollish comments on these posts whereas I normally don't care. I'll be downvoting purposefully toxic comments/commenters on these specific posts. All constructive thoughts are welcome, but not all delivery of those thoughts will be welcome.

Feels good to be home. Should be fun!

Joshua 1:9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.



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"There is a small country where BCT is legal tender; why isn't there a campaign there? Knowing that this place is quite familiar with the crypto world, I just leave it as a reference. The ninja mine should be used in a better way, not in marketing campaigns that don't show significant results; the numbers don't lie."
Welcome back again.

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Well I do hope everything goes well. I wrote an article a couple of days ago on this topic which I have been polishing and plan to post it some time today. I for one have voted in favor of the proposal receiving funding and have encouraged others to do the same.

There has been a great deal of discussion in the discord, but it has died down some in order to not alienate potential new players of Splinterlands thanks to @clayboyn's leadership and moderation of said discussions.

When all is said and done, HIVE is good for Splinterlands (and any other blockchain based game for that matter) and Splinterlands is good for HIVE. I state the obvious.

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Re-engage Hive in a positive way. Unburdened by what has been.

And here is where I busted out laughing. At the joke, not the re-engaging. Bwaa haa haa haa.

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Hopefully the tone at the end there doesn't scare people away from participating. Even now as I say this, part of me feels like I'm walking on eggshells.

Did I say this correctly? Will I be misconstrued? Will a miscommunication lead to shunning? Am I viewed as one of these "active blockers" for voting for the return proposal even though my vote was there before this all began, meaning I could have been away like so many others during summer, only to come back and discover the entire SPL crew hates me for some strange reason...

That proposal system worked the same way it did before the SPL proposal went live. Right now I see the return proposal, or the bar, moving up, inching closer to Ecency. Does this mean people are trying to block them? I wouldn't make that conclusion. Maybe it has more to do with the endless complaints about Valueplan. Maybe those people disagree with that spending so much they actually took action rather than just complaining. Hard to say what's going on, and why. Maybe they're in support of raising the bar, for everyone, since so many complain about spending in general.

Easy to see it boils down to people making choices independently. To be expected. The D in DHF does stand for Decentralized. Does each move need to come with an explanation? I don't think so. Maybe others do, and that's fine.

Products like Peakd and Ecency would receive support naturally from the community simply because so many use those products combined with owning HP. When SPL proposal went live, I was under the impression SPL was in the same boat. And I still think there's a lot of support available out there, somewhere, for SPL. Looking forward to seeing it.

I use Peakd so I've supported Peakd now and in the past. I don't use Ecency so I have not supported Ecency now or in the past. Does not mean I'm against the existence of Ecency. I'm happy people have options and freedom to choose.

I have not put my vote behind the SPL proposal but this does not mean I don't want it here. Just because Burger King exists, that doesn't mean I have to support them, even though they bring value to the community, somehow. I don't play SPL. And I think those who enjoy it are free to be in support of it. They're responsible for its success in the same way Burger King customers contribute.

I don't know enough about SPL in general. All the people saying it brings value and people and good times forever is just hearsay to me. I can't base my decision off that.

Do Burger King people try to make the lives of those not in support of their business, difficult? Of course not.

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I use Peakd products so I've supported Peakd now and in the past. I don't use Ecency so I have not supported Ecency now or in the past. Does not mean I'm against the existence of Ecency. I'm happy people have options and freedom to choose.

This is how I vote on proposals too, and actually in these two specific examples, the same exact way for the same exact reasons.

But when people have the luxury and entitlement to vote, they should do so fully informed and fully aware of the things they vote on, not just future looking hype, but also past performance. Of the projects themselves and how they actually did or did not help the chain community, the crypto value and/or the chain technology. (grow a healthy engaged and retained userbase, grow money value, improve infrastructure.) One may or may not also choose to consider the past performance of project sponsors as trustworthy, reliable and competent and capable. Those are the levers that move underneath "future hype" coming to fruition anyway.

I need real hard, rigid arguments for these things to win my vote, and a couple of the most controversial proposals right now, basically SPL and ValuePlan really deserve a lot of scrutiny for the size of the asks vs these criteria. (grow a healthy engaged and retained userbase, grow money value, improve infrastructure.)

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Would it be rational to support something that did well in the past, just because they did well in the past?

Saddles. They did well in the past. Want to go all in on saddles with me?

I think if someone was directly asking for funds to cover the costs of productive actions in the past, I'd feel comfortable supporting that, if those actions were contributing to the future, in a way that can be observed.

I don't see thousands of people supporting that proposal. Yet one of the claims to fame was attracting thousands of people.

I don't care how much HP anyone has. They already have an account here and all they need to do is push a button to support a proposal.

Hype is useless. Why am I not seeing these people supporting the proposal!

Am I to just believe they exist? Or does this lead me to believe they don't?

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Point taken on the saddles cowboy. I get what you mean by it in context.

But take this journey with me using the same metaphor differently.

If the saddle maker said, hey we realized we did well with saddles but horses are over now, and now its all about Mustang GT seat covers and we've got a market for those and can make them with our expert proven saddle makers, but we need some money to retool, buy embroidery thread and carry on, and we have some funds amassed from being successful but need a little more to get going, I'd probably consider an investment in the former saddle cum upholstery company a pretty safe bet. A gamble but one with a track record of winning

But if those selling the saddles had basically run their companies out of business and cash by making shitty saddles or selling the ones they got via a black market rustler ring, or simply making saddles nobody ever wanted to buy even if the saddle market was hot, and had no money of their own to bring to the table because they blew it all, but wanting a ton more to "continue", and their leadership had been known to be either inexperienced or downright incompetent in their roles over the past, I'd be taking my wallet and getting in my Camaro SS and leaving their Mustang seat cover company in the dust.

I think I just agreed with you, now that I read both our comments back.

Your eyes don't deceive you, all those thousands spent on 'safe travel to important conventions' and 'keynotes in ubers and fancy locales' haven't brought thousands of users, we're bleeding users bigly over the years, the community statisticians often post user onboarding charts and that line goes down and right or at best flatlines lately.

We'd be better off taking 150K and giving people $5 to sign up, that would bring us 30,000 new users, and after the cash grabbers take their 5 bucks and leave, we might actually retain a healthy percentage that jump on board, contribute new life, content, code, ideas, and investment money.

Never know? I'd rather experiment with giving out the 5 dollar signup incentive than sending 150K to put 3 dolphins up in a fancy hotel with a gourmet meal per diem, in some European city to give a slide show 3 or 4 times a year to other sponsored conference attending people from wherever, that end up just investing in bitcoin anyway.

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Dude, this is Earth, and we're talking about humans. That $5 per individual totaling 150k would go to the first 100 people already here and able to create accounts faster than others.

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BOOM, you just dropped a big old truth bomb.

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Nonames, this is definitely one of the best responses I’ve read on this matter. I appreciate your thoughts on it.
I’m a SPL player since 2019, and recently working hard to learn more about Hive and become more active in the greater community (I just voted for my first DHF) . I hope to meet and engage with more people like you.
In terms of your Burger King comment, I think you could also look at it in this way, sometimes people vote to increase funding for their local schools, even though they don’t have children, because they feel it’s what is best for their community.
I realize I am biased, but I genuinely do feel that what is good for Splinterlands is also good for Hive. The issue is that Hive works so well for a game like Splinterlands that we have rarely had to come out of our bubble to engage in the Hive ecosystem - this needs work (and Matt has already taken steps for this with Hive promotion inside the game). We should all be one big family working together to pull each other up.
I’m here to learn and listen and do my best to bring our two communities closer together.

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I see your point and respect it.

To counter that I would mention public services like schools aren't expected to make a profit. The artwork the students put all over the walls isn't worth anything aside from grades. The "profit" there is contributing to their future. Them needing help would be a common occurrence so people often accept fundraisers as being necessary.

Meanwhile SPL "students" have money for cards, the various tokens; it all holds value and stays in their wallets. They get paid to "learn."

So this would be like the profitable/wealthy private school in the rich neighborhood canvasing all neighborhoods including the poor neighborhoods, pulling up in a Ferrari, and asking for donations.

Now I want to demonstrate something. I'm going to upvote your comment as much as I can. 100%. I'm not in support of the SPL proposal. You are. In seven days you will receive some HP. The same HP you're using to support the proposal. Notice how I'm now supporting the SPL proposal indirectly?

If you were to turn around and sell that, you're making the choice to weaken your ability to support the things you enjoy.

I don't expect the majority of gamers to become content creators. That vote I gave you, in seven days, gives me HP as well. Just for pushing the button.

So over the span of several years, if thousands of players with 100 HP each were actively voting for content and engaging with their common interests, the value behind that mass of gamers with common interests would be on the rise constantly, growing at the same rate as everyone else. A large group of gamers working together to support their DHF proposal gives them a clear advantage. Could be sitting here upvoting your conversations with one another rather than sitting on Discord for example and that simple act would be contributing to your success.

SPL is just as much "The Hive Community" as anyone else here. Hive is more like the Earth and much like the planet, there are several communities. Might be a Bostonian or a New Yorker, but you're still an Earthling. Boston community members take care of themselves. New York takes care of itself.

Imagine if this entire operation grew into millions of people. Never in a million years would "The Hive Community" be on the same page, agreeing on all things. Yet all the available tools and opportunities would still be available to everyone in the same way they are today.

I'm happy to hear SPL is taking steps to remove the wall surrounding their community and now wants to open the gates and build roads.

Currently, no individual here can say they speak for "The Hive Community."
However, several can speak for SPL.

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I appreciate your response. I learned a lot from this interaction.I had no idea about how upvoting worked - I clearly have a lot to learn. Thank you.

I still think that Splinterlands is good for Hive and Hive is good for Splinterlands - even if it’s a private school that helps maintain or bring the land value up and now needs support. I respect your decision to not support the proposal - which makes this whole system work.

I look forward to more conversations with people like you in this community.

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#splinterlands

If you're using Peakd, you can click that. There's a little star you can select, making it a "favorite topic". Now all that content is one click away for you.

There you can see the massive amount of SPL content, and plenty of rewards. Every single one of those people is being given the opportunity to support something like the SPL proposal. They're all earning HP, nonstop. Now you're seeing hundreds if not thousands supporting the SPL proposal indirectly.

Now look closely. Notice how absent the community is? Potentially thousands of people, yet hardly any comments under majority of those posts.

Yet people will sit on Youtube, Reddit, Discord; talking about the same things, all day. Earning nothing and rewarding no one.

I always wondered why I didn't see a massive amount of people engaging on those posts. A Youtube comment section, there's comments with thousands of "likes" but here, hardly a peep and the community doesn't even have a chance to reward itself by creating legit interesting/entertaining comments and "liking" them.

If games bring value to this chain, having a solid community of people interested in games, active, engaged, and able to support the things they enjoy, that makes it so much easier for other games to find success. The attention always spills over onto other products. That ball needs to get rolling or all these games being developed locally will just sit on the shelves collecting dust.

Achieving that boils down to individuals and individual choices. The true potential of this entire system cannot be reached if people choose to not participate and instead rely on others and their votes to get them through the tough times.

If I step in to vote, all I'm doing is contributing to the illusion these products are popular here. Setting more people up to struggle down the road.

The pattern repeats. It's not hard to find other games or games in development setting themselves up to have an absent community or dealing with the consequences of said absence.

I can only hope at some point my thoughts were just as helpful or even more helpful than the act of me pushing that proposal button and walking away.

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And just as a sidenote. Now that you know how to easily find all the content, where it says "trending" on the right, change that to "recent" and now you'll see several years worth of rewarded content, scrolling all the way down to day one. That all doubles as marketing SPL to "The Hive Community."

Do some calculations. Consider token values on the day of publishing as well. Notice how "The Hive Community" has been contributing to some rather alarming figures over the years?

Now factor in all the money "The Hive Community" dumped into SPL indirectly. For example someone with stake votes on a post about ducks and the author converts that payment into cards. Hundreds of thousands of posts and millions upon millions of votes, all from "The Hive Community", dumped directly into SPL.

One side-effect was several "Hive Community" members struggling to find support for their work and eventually leaving the chain for good.

The trail of breadcrumbs doesn't lead to a booming product? How?

"The Hive Community won't support SPL?" How?

"SPL is good for Hive." How?

"SPL brings people to Hive." Where are they?

"The Hive Community doesn't know what's good for business..." Clearly.

"because they don't support SPL." Huh?

It boils down to "The Hive Community," which includes SPL, mismanaging itself. Viewing this with outside perspective, it's similar to what families go through with gambling addiction. And now wants to gamble another 500k thinking that'll "fix it." "Just one more win. That's all I need."

Under that proposal post you can see me taking flak for thinking surely there's something to show for all this. Why?

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I think the biggest difference is the fact that Matt is the CEO now for the past 10 months. He’s significantly more financially conservative than Aggy. And Matt is working hard to put the company in a place to withstand the next bear market and be a successful and profitable game on Hive for a long time.

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I don't doubt Matt's abilities. From what I know of him, I can only say good things about him. I might be wrong but he strikes me as someone who'd rather get down to brass tacks, rather than generating hype then playing catch up.

He's just one guy though, and the supporters have the ability to do a lot for the game. I doubt the SPL community will want to give it their all. I don't mind taking flak for a statement like that either. If I'm wrong, that means they got their asses in gear.

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That’s exactly who @yabapmat is, and he is only one person but he does have a significantly slimmed down, focused, solid team behind him that are pushing out weekly updates.

In the past 10 months they have moved from a mantra of hype and sell to under promise and over deliver.

100% of the focus has been and is for the next couple of months is the new player experience and how to onboard them into the game, and as they learn they will also get onboarded to Hive - the screenshots that @nateaguila has shared of the tutorials has looked great.

I ultimately want to see Hive and Splinterlands not only co-exist, but move to a place of mutually benefitting each other. How do you think we get there?

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That, I can't answer. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say I don't want to answer. These aren't my problems to solve.

Coexisting? I was under the impression that's how it was the entire time. I've known some of the people contributing to development and art for several years. I know or know of plenty of the stakeholders backing the proposal, for several years. They're almost all familiar faces to me. We've crossed paths several times over the years. For the most part, always on good terms. It's funny because of all the people here, I think they would expect me to be the one guy being all like, "Nope. Not supporting it." I know they're not taking it personally.

A rift in a decentralized environment doesn't make sense. Seeing people come out of the shadows talking about how "Hive won't be good for SPL" or "Hive holds SPL back" only highlights how disconnected they are, as individuals. It came as a shock to some that SPL is a Hive-based product, making them think differently of SPL even though everything about it was fine up until that proposal came to light, and the product still functions the same way. Attempting to destroy Hive's image tarnishes their own brand at the same time. Think of a boomerang.

A decentralized environment is unfamiliar territory for majority of people on the planet. Everyone has their own say, but controls nothing other than themselves and what they bring to the table. True freedom doesn't mean you kick back and everything is done for you. It means you're free to go hunting and gathering because if you don't, you'll starve.

I thought I did a fine enough job showing, with evidence, Hive and SPL has always coexisted. Perhaps there are and were some dysfunctional moments, but Hive doesn't have a mind of its own, and neither does the SPL community.

In crypto, in general, there's a lot of tribalism. Hive is just a set of tools anyone can pick up and use. It's not some kind of business with a team calling all the shots. Anyone can step up and just start calling their own shots. So, people can use that to their advantage and work on figuring out the how, themselves. SPL marketing itself can bring value to Hive. SPL can also extract a lot of resources from Hive and leave it hanging. History proves each, so, find a balance.

No matter how well things go, there will always be people that find a way to disagree with how things are going. Could be a disgruntled SPL gamer unhappy with the game. Could be a disgruntled content creator unhappy with games being here. They only speak for themselves.

Another thing about popular products in general. The more popular something is, the more haters it has. Pick any popular game or movie or song or artist from history, and look how many people think those products are stupid. They often outnumber those in favor. People need to use that basic knowledge to their advantage. Just because you think your game is awesome, that doesn't mean all will agree and support it. It needs to develop a strong support base so it can stand on its own.

Look how many hate Burger King for whatever reason. Business still thrives. Pick any product. Same results. So don't invest much into creating the perfect image because that can't be achieved. Simply build enough confidence.

Once again, achieving that boils down to individuals and their individual choices. Not my job to tell anyone how. It's their job to figure it out.

I don't know enough about SPL to be able to suggest how. I could come up with ideas but I'm a total outsider. It's none of my business.

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Yes, Hive and SPL has co-existed just fine for years. I was curious as to your thoughts on trying on how best to grow that relationship with each other. But if you don’t know splinterlands, then all good, and I will digress.

There have definitely been some people that are SPL Maxis and Hive Maxis that aren’t showing either community in their best light. And because I speak more on the SPL community, right now is a scary time for us, and our tokens and assets are down tremendously, so I believe some people are voicing their opinions that stem from emotions rather than an understanding of Hive. Anyone that is speaking poorly about hive definitely doesn’t represent the community and certainly not our leadership.

I appreciate your time and insight on this. I will continue to do my best to show the positive side of our community, and I will continue to grow my presence on Hive so that I may do a better job in educating my fellow players in the benefits of this powerful ecosystem at their fingertips.

I look forward to seeing you around the blockchain and speaking with you more on other topics as well.

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Emotional outbursts/reactions are common during the lows, and the highs as well.

The common crypto culture that would define Maxis isn't something I subscribe to. The entire time I'm writing out my thoughts, I'm well aware some would ignore the points, look at what's in the wallet, then use that to discredit. I don't have time for that stuff.

I've seen arguments coming from another angle where some think those in support of the proposal are only voting to protect their assets. As if that's a way to discredit them. Realistically, they're using their HP to back their assets. That can be seen as a responsible move. Think of a house with a strong foundation. Tends to last longer. People can choose to have security.

So when those who went all in on SPL awhile back, draining their HP entirely while giving Hive the finger, now realize they only contributed to their own personal crumbling foundation and have become dependents. They had the ability to back their assets but forfeited it, seeing no value in that. Contributed much to SPL and themselves, but that well always dries up.

Some of them had huge stacks of HP. All gone. It was like a contagious disease stemming from emotions, misguidance, and tribalism. I could show examples published to this chain but I don't think shedding light directly on those specific situations and individuals would be fair to them in this setting.

People can dislike whatever they want. People can dislike Hive. It's an inanimate object and doesn't care. Even during those moments where one or some are are disrespecting "The Hive Community," I don't take that personally. They're hitting themselves. They eventually leave and everything else here remains intact.

You get used to the noise.

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I'm going to dip my toe into these raging waters and hope that my question is accepted as just that. A Question. I have yet to decide which way I will vote (around 14,600HP worth) and the more information I and the hive community have, the better informed we can be to reach a decision.

In the SPL proposal, I see that there is mention of Shareholders in the company. I am sure these were there from the start and rode the success up and down. My question is, will the DHF become a shareholder in the company when it invests funding?

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Fancy begging for bailouts on a 6 year old business not covering it's own expenses is still begging.

A bible verse AND a Kamala Harris quote? Really going after those demographics angles...

Why doesn't a 7 year business that is so important have enough revenue to run itself? From what I hear, it has something to do with how the first CEO "ran" it. So maybe that's the thing people need to be told you will be telling them?


But you know...
Threats and coercion and blackmail have ALWAYS been your M.O. You don't even "thinly veil" them, it's almost like you think such behavior is normal, because for you, it always has been.

"Dissenting voices will be silenced!" - I think that has a name, um, Facism?

In the meantime please take heed of the following notice:
People that are actively blocking the proposal and refusing to give any feedback or have any discussions on the matter will see votes removed. Constructive criticism is welcome. Silent stonewalling, false claims, and ad hominem attacks will lose votes for their witness and project proposals. Further, I would prefer not to have trollish comments on these posts whereas I normally don't care. I'll be downvoting purposefully toxic comments/commenters on these specific posts. All constructive thoughts are welcome, but not all delivery of those thoughts will be welcome.

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TLDR - So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.

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Sometimes we need to refresh or recharge ourselves then reflect back. Actions are good but imho we don't have to take actions based on our emotions. We as hivians needs to support each other.

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Since thats the talk and you are probably the overlord whale, how much % do you have from total marketshare from free float with total accs? And what % from the issued ratio (distribution), could say from total staked... And what % is that for 10 main wallets? (That are not from the system itself)... Anyway, I have no idea on thoses infos and am asking out of ignorance...

I think its very nice from yah to take initiative to have a transparent talk! And its blockchain, data is there, I just think thats a tough info to gather and you might know better how to drop it... Others big investors would surely try to look into that for trust in current crypto feedback loop... Ty!!

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Kind of liked your attitude until you threw that Bible verse in the end. Not that my little flag means much, but maybe you'll see it and know that I come from the buckle of the Bible belt and that is a poor judgement call quoting so little when you put so much into the rest of the post.

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