I've been spending some time trying to get back into the #hive thing and specifically how things work under the hood. However, trying to find answers is starting to get frustrating.

I have spent a bunch of time reviewing the whitepaper and while I suspect the information is in there, its not clear to a perpetually noob developer like myself.

So, maybe you can help. Is there a community developed wiki that would help describe some of the things that I'm trying to figure out?

For example, what is the @null account for? and is there a difference between burning rewards vs just sending them to @null?

How do I calculate how much HP I need for a certain level of vote, say 0.02 HBD? Is that variable, and what does it vary on? Is it just the internal HBD value, or is it something else too?

Speaking of HBD, why is there always a spread b/w the market HBD value and the network one?

And continuing on HBD, how is that calculated?

I used to know some of these things

A couple of years ago I knew these things and had links to google sheets where people created cool tools that would allow me to figure them out, but every one of those links are either broken or the APIs/sheets/etc that they needed for the calculations are broken.

Is a wiki an answer?

I think a hive.io wiki is probably the answer, but failing that a community wiki. Its not something that I can contribute the technical side on, but I would definitely
vote on a proposal if someone technical wanted to start a project like that.

Maybe the resource exists

If there is an online resource that exists today, I can't find it. Google isn't as good as it used to be, and every other option is much worse.

And DISCORD IS NOT THE ANSWER. I hate discord and everything that it stands for. Why its the default bb out there today I will never understand. If you aren't able to self-host the service (closed or otherwise) you are the product and I don't live in that world. Its the entire reason that I was interested in web3 in the first place, and why my only socials live in the fediverse.

Any links you can provide in the comments will be amazing!

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