Ask Me Anything - Marky Edition
Have you always wanted to ask me something?
Now is your chance, there won't be another!
(ok, ok, there will)
Hit me up in the comment section with a question and I will do my best to answer it.
Want to do your own AMA?
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To get the basics out of the way, I joined July 1st, 2017 but I didn't actually post or do anything until July 22, 2017. I am a Hive witness and developer. I am married and have a son. I enjoy movies, 3D printing, technology, photography, gaming, BBQs, not getting Corona, and hanging out in the pool with friends and family.
My first crypto was BTC when it was around $360 and I ran over 50 GPUs mining Ethereum before I discovered Steem. Over 25,000 posts and comments were censored on Steem and 170,000 Steem stolen directly from my wallet by Justin Sun and rogue witnesses. Ever since then I have been 100% focused on Hive.
While a lot of my time is spent on anti-abuse on Hive, my primarily interest these days have been onboarding and engagement. I recently ran a Hive Hackathon raising over 12,000 Hive reward pool to reward cool new projects developed for Hive. I am working on getting the second Hive Hackathon started soon.
I nominate @gtg, @eonwarped, and @asgarth to do an AMA!
So let's get this shit started!
Would you be my guest in a video podcast about Hive?
Main reason:
There currently is lot of movement among certain groups on Hive. But most people don't have an understanding on how the eco system works, what the real role of witnesses is, how the dao works, how the voting works.
I know, everything has been covered extensively before, but due to the nature of Hive eco system, lots of it gets lost after the 7 days.
If the answer is 'No', permission for another question 😅
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Sure
Awesome.. what's the best way to reach out?
Discord, Twitter?
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Discord
Downvoted for not choosing OpenHive.Chat ;-)
What is your favorite game of all time?
Bloodborne. Although Last of Us was pretty damn good.
What are your thoughts on the WHIVE experiment, and now what LeoFinance is planning for WLEO?
I think it is a good experiment but needs a lot of marketing and liquidity to get enough attention, which we have neither. The gas fees are also proving to be a big hindrance.
Hive and Steem is worth pretty much the same, (~$0,176), do you think Hive will or can ever reach numbers like $5+? - If so, what do you think is the most vital ingredient for that to happen?
I think it will be really difficult without things changing. Most importantly how rapidly we onboard new users and how well we market Hive. We also need more apps that are not just ways to rewards low effort posting.
I know both onboarding and marketing will get better once we do some cleanup in the next few hard forks.
We can reach $100 without a thing changing as thats crypto for you.
What is your analysis of the low prices of hive at the moment, what do you think it is due to?
The recent drop is just following Bitcoin.
How to achieve success like you on the Blockchain hive? @themarkymark😊
Passion and persistence.
thank you for providing a little motivation, i will apply it to myself. @themarkymark
How fast can Serenity make the Kessel Run?
11 parsecs
I read a lot about how Hive needs more exposure to grow its community. I see hive as a community centred social cryptocurrency where members can be rewarded for their engagement and value they bring to the community. Would you agree with this statement? In your opinion what other "super powers" and distinctive advantages does Hive possesses as an ecosystem that could be used in an argument to invite new members?
I believe that is true, for now. I really want to see smart contracts native to the blockchain so we can attract projects like Crypto Kitties, Gods Unchained, Uniswap.
Free transactions with the ability to scale is a game changer. Look at the problems Ethereum is having with outrageous fees and slow transaction speeds. We can solve both of these problems.
Ah I would love to see @asgarth do an AMA!
Let’s go with one that I find an interesting question to ask people. In history, who do you think you’d like to spend a week getting to know and why? Preferably not someone like Satoshi but someone not necessarily related to crypto, if possible. If not then whoever!
Jimi Hendrix
What interests you about him that you’d want to spend time with him? Love the choice by the way!
I think he would just make for a fantastic week.
Who is your favorite character in Firefly? (Mine is definitely Shepherd Book!)
And, for a real question - what's your opinion on IoT in the real-estate world? The company I work for has been busy installing smart locks and such in show suites to allow large landlords to provide self-guided tours. Is IoT integration like this example something you're keeping an eye on and interested in? Or do you think it's going to be a fad that flops?
I love Shepard Book, I almost answered him for the previous question of who in history I would want to spend a week with.
I'd have to go with Mal, I think they are all fantastic and is what made the show so great. Sheppard would be a close second.
I think IoT is fantastic for creating new and unique ways to take advantage of technology in creative ways. Unfortunately most IoT has no respect for security.
I have heard of smart locks specifically designed for showing houses. Now that smart locks are more common you don’t really need anything unique for real estate.
Solid choice on Mal! And thanks for your reply!
first i asked about chocolate, then about coke or pepsi, this time my questions is...
Cake or Ice Cream?
No, you can't choose both, and yes, i did though about asking "manual or auto" but LMAO I better not cause i don't care about cars enough to ask that. 🤭😇
Ice Cream, easily. Not a big cake fan unless it is very moist.
Then I highly recommend for you to try the "Tres Leches Cake" (3 milks) cause that is the kind of moist you need in your life.
there is a vanilla version of it too but .... why would any choose vanilla over chocolate?
When we make cake we put a cup of boiling water in it. It makes a huge difference. In fact it is just the Hershey's coco powder recipe on the box but it is really good.
Heheh, I prefer vanilla ice cream over chocolate ice cream for example.
I do like chocolate cake or just milk chocolate, though. Also chocolate makes my teeth hurt very easilly.
this post gave me diabetes
Lmao and there are some salty plates there too 😂
This gave me orgasm
THE BEST
Is there a situation you can think of that would make you quit Hive? If yes, what?
Not easily but everyone has their limits.
If the integrity of the chain was compromised beyond recovery would likely be it for me. There are usually always options, like how we forked to Hive.
Which of your kids' toys was your favorite and made you secretly (or openly) jealous that you didn't have something like it as a child?
I really think Snap Circuits was a genius idea. It is like legos for electronics.
when I read this and thought cool me too and there came another one 😄
But I have no pool at all. only bathtub.😂
We have a set of those at the library. Very popular with the kids on S.T.E.A.M. day. I hope we can hold in-person events again soon.
Ask you Anything? Are you sure? Absolutely sure? Anything?
Alright! here we go...
Do you believe you have Sense of humor?
I do.
Haha, thanks for replying mate. I was sure that in my case, I could never expect a more eloquent, expressive and TL;DR answer than that. LoL };)
Cheers!! :)
What are your thoughts about hive in the next 1, 3 and 5 years?
I think the next year we will focus on optimizing the infrastructure, setting us further apart from Steem by changing the chain ID and making other key improvements.
The next 3 years I hope we can have finished a few key hard forks so we can focus on on-boarding and marketing.
5 years I think more of what we are doing in 3 years.
Why instead of punish people for still using Steem, the witness don't create incentives for these people choose Hive instead of Steem?
There are incentives, we don't steal your tokens out of your wallet. We do not have a small group of people circle jerking a picture and a paragraph for $200+ on trending every day. We are actually creating changes and improvements that are not just censorship, stealing funds, and linking Tron to the blockchain.
I am not talking about the stolen funds, and although a fully understand the anger.
It's only a simple matter of using incentive instead of punishment to make people want to stick around Hive, and not Steem.
Because everytime I see someone getting flagged/attacked on the comments because they still cross-post on Steem, well... It's most likely that they will eventually use the service provided by the competition.
Well, maybe not single picture and paragraph, but there is still a lot of circle-jerking going around here....
But if the "circlejerking" happens outside the old and powerful, I guess it isn't allowed huh...
Steem
Hive
Not even remotely similar.
There is no community directive to bash people posting on both, those are individual people making individual choices with their stake.
Still not the point, since i am not comparing wich is better, but the perception how people are not being welcomed here because they still use steem.
I don't participate in that activity, anyone who does is doing it on their own free will.
There are two types of users who fit in the category you describe, those who helped facilitate the hostile take over by supporting Justin Sun's sock puppet witnesses and those who post on both platforms to get rewards on both.
I have zero sympathy for the first group, I'm not a fan of the second but I don't discourage them either.
Who are you referring to? Theyre being attacked for simply posting on STEEM?
Show me, im curious..
Sure, how about this post a long time ago, that fortunately, after some heated discussion, @arcange backed off from that position.
This is a reflection of some witness thoughts about people posting on both chains.
A lot of this attitude might not be posted on HIVE, but I have seen a lot like this both from witness and from other users across some of the community discord channels.
Or this post from a curation community, where some witness downvoted (including @themarkymark) for no apparent reason, at least none that were publicly explained, but apparently, through some discord conversation, the reason given was that @project.hope is doing his curation project both here and on Steem.
If you look deeper, there is probably a lot more examples, but sorry, not much time to search for them right now.
Because the project lead is a piece of human garbage.
Keep fuelling his ring if you so desire.
How is he a piece of human garbage? Please, elaborate...
Defending scammy behaviors, plagiarists, etc. are some of the gripes people have against him.
Some dislike him for using both platforms.
But hey, continue to be exploited for your cheap labor by paying him 20%.
Sure, 20% as beneficiary, but here is the thing... these 20% have opened up way more support from @project.hope team and community than any other 'curation' project that exists around here for way more time.
Specially because a vote is only a part of the project, which includes looking for people that actually try to create quality content, and incentivizing the project member not to only vote for rewards, but actually engage with the authors (wow, what an amazing concept right? incentives to engage the community...)
I have been on this blockchain for around 5 years, and even after trying to engage on a lot of older projects, @project.hope was actually the only one that came after me, and asked if I wanted to join their project, explaining how everything worked.
Sure, some plagiarized posts go through one time or another, but instead of "punishing" the user for doing something wrong, the community works to make that user understand why what he did was wrong.
You know, to act as community.
What make things more interesting is that the same "logic" you are talking about doesn't apply to communities where these "white knights" that protect the blockchain are participants of.
Here is the problem with HIVE right now @enforcer48, (actually still the same problem from the old days):
If the big stakeholders of this platform see someone/some project that isn't doing exactly as they think things should be done (usually in a way that benefits them), the hostility grows, and instead of accepting that everyone should have the liberty of trying different stuff (some limits implied, of course, on clear abuse type of content, like spam), some try to take that thing down as fast as possible.
It's a huge problem of witness acting as if they 'owned' the blockchain, but the truth is, witnesses are supposed to be providing a service to the whole community, not the other way around.
So, it seems you are trying to put a label of scam on a project that is trying to do something that a place like HIVE was supposed to allow everyone to: create a community....
Any project that relies solely on votes is garbage. Period.
What has voting done for this platform for the past few years? You think that project is unique?
Look what happened to Utopian?
For someone who pretends to write sound "financial" articles, how clueless are you to think that's a sustainable model?
I prefer useful dapps over mindless upvoting shit nobody reads any day. Your logic is no better than the geniuses that continually tag only #hive on Twitter.
Blogging-ONLY is a damn failed concept. Stop trying to make it the sole purpose of the blockchain. And stop supporting the "cash out only" culture.
Never said blogging is the sole purpose of this chain, but since this model is the foundation of this chain, and actually the only part of it that is well recognized and associated with the HIVE brand, it is just stupid to ignore it completely.
It's like trying to make Bitcoin stop being a project focused on creating a digital cash system to suddenly shift completely from it's core function to become a dapp platform.
And actually, the problem with HIVE not being economic sustainable doesn't have anything related to being a blogging platform or not, but the whole economic model is flawed from the beginning. The content creation is only first and still the main way the tokens are distributed. (The main trend of the HIVE price is down, unless there is a demand increase. Economy 101 you know...)
Your argument for killing the content creation side as a mean of token distribution shows more that you want to keep the coins flowing to the pockets of those that already have a lot of them (aka witness), instead of allowing more people to have access to it and over time, create a solid economy of dapps, products and a lot of other possible stuff.
The Blogging part of this experiment is failing not because it is a failed concept, but because those that were supposed to improve this foundation are more busy trying to find ways to fill their own pockets while praising how "awesome" this blockchain is to convince clueless people to buy into a half-baked project.
Meanwhile, something like @engrave, a project with the potential to become a Wordpress based on a blockchain doesn't seem to attract much attention from big stakeholders.
Also, funny question: If blogging is such a failure, why you still do it regularly and reap the rewards from it?
Reaping what rewards? You mean all the funds I kept inside this ecosystem while the value continues to dwindle as someone like you cash out because $10 is actually a significant amount where you live?
I’m sorry, but even the games here require you to pay with HIVE. So, if I’m not buying, I need to get them from somewhere.
I don’t need some group who perpetually cash out the bulk of what they earn to tell me what I should value.
I’m not advocating to kill content. I’m arguing to stop putting it on a pedestal because it ain’t some novel concept.
Build stuff people want to use. Build stuff people want to replace. Not reinventing the wheel, slap blockchain on it, and expect people to come flocking to it. Especially those blog-centric ideas.
So now you are assuming you know what my financial conditions are huh? Are you what psychic? Or this just the usual ad hominem argument people use when they are starting to lack arguments?
So, what is the problem with other users also trying to earn from their content?
Btw, it is also interesting enough (besides saying that blogging is a failure but still blogging to get those sweet hive rewards every seven days) that the usual "organic" votes you claim to be receiving come mostly from the same users on all your posts...
Damn, even @ranchorelaxo is voting for you... pretty "organic" right? Or now you are going to tell me that @ranchorelaxo is a usual user that read everything you write and isn't around just to reap the curation rewards?
About buying more HIVE, every now and then i consider this possibility, but every time i start to look how things are evolving and see that everything is still the same old same old... why buy?
There is no evolving, stake holders and developers keep looking at their own belly without a clue about what actually happens on the outside world, and just try to surf every new hype that appear creating some gimmick that will magically make HIVE explode overnight.
So, again, why buy? So far, this has been a really wise financial decision....
Thing is, that is exactly the direction HIVE is going...
Pick up the latest hyper around blockchain and try to implement on the Hive blockchain and see if it sticks...
Dapps, tokens, and now DeFi... It's always the same cycle everytime a new hype start somewhere else: Look at that shinning new thing! we must have it here!
But guess what: These new stuff are built from the ground up as something new, and that is why they get the hype and the popularity. Hive is, at best, just trying to keep up with the big boys by copying what they are doing.
There is no innovation, only copy.
So, again, instead using the unique feature of this blockchain, that is the social layer to capitalize over it and grow from there, everything just keeps going round and round and round, and failing every time.
So, again, why buy?
Never said everything was organic. The fact that you don't know Rancho just random vote these days shows how little you are aware of things.
Did I assume your financial situation? I mentioned where you are from. Don't confuse the two.
If you don’t want to have a stake, then don’t. I hate those with no skin in the game perpetually want their voices to be the loudest.
The only thing that bothers you here is some people clearly don't like your project founder.
But hey, you had to come "standing up" for him when it wasn't required. He's more capable than you make him appear to be.
So, you want to attract investors by saying that their opinion doesn't matter because they haven't bought in?
What a weird way to pitch a project to potential investors... good luck with that...
An investor. You are not.
Don’t equate yourself as one. Even my meagre stake is not considered “investment grade” in my mind.
I also don't pitch anything to anyone.
Now, you may go back to play pretend as content creators with your friends.
Lol... and now you are assuming you know my net wealth... What an amazing psychic you are!
And where have I said that I am supposed to be this "investor" you people all are looking for?
But you know, it's just a basic concept that any low-knowledge/grade/level (or whatever official name you want to call) know: Why put money on something that had so much time in existence and still isn't able to gain traction... Damn, HIVE barely have any respect from the cryptocurrency community, with the highest point of it being the community mobilization to fork the chain, wich is something that every shitty coin have done in the past...
The delusion and the blind wish that the HIVE stakes increase in value is so high, that the majority of the community can't even see how much they are fooling themselves.
For me, I will still stick around, to see how everything goes... Because like me, a lot of people are still sticking around because there is still no similar platform on the cryptospace for content creation... Besides that, everything that is being built on HIVE, a lot of other projects are already doing, and doing way better.
I’m sorry? I didn’t know you represented the entire Brazil.
Pardon me!
I shall depart and quit entertaining your obviously vast intellect, which has been reduced to sticking to this unattractive platform, while trying to convince an unimpressed internet stranger of how right you are!
uh... what?
Why leave? i thought you were the high intellect here, with your amazing content, that apparently contains more value than any other content produced by other users and projects...
Don't leave so soon...
After all, you even know how much I earn, and how big my wealth is! Please, enlighten me more!
It's hard not to agree with you on this one.
Because your brains are so dead you can’t think of anything outside of “content creation” as a mean of distribution.
I wonder how other chains do it? Guess they are broken too.
I would love to see what did you manage to achieve so far @enforcer48, except of constant complaining.
Surprise us (assuming you can).
On one hand people like yourself are comparing trending on steemit and trending page on hive, to prove that hive is doing better. And whenever it's convinient - you attack those content creators. It's actually quite amusing.
Lol I don’t pretend I have accomplished anything.
Or, do you see me praising Hive.
But in a typical Piotr fashion, you spew ignorant comments about things you clearly don’t understand.
But hey, keep being that @dimimp.
Dear @enforcer48
I'm seriously asking. I would like to know if I'm constantly criticized by someone with any serious achievements or simply by "nobody".
Please, enlighten me.
Regards, Piotr
My achievements in life are my own.
You aren’t entitled an answer.
dear @enforcer48
Noone asked (and care about) your private life achievements. Share your achievements on steem or hive. I surely would love to learn about them.
It’s a blockchain. Go look it up yourself.
I honestly tried for many weeks @enforcer48. And I truly couldn't find anything. That's why I'm asking - perhaps you can enlighten me. So far you're failing.
Oh you did for weeks? Sounds like you are the one that’s failed here.
Indeed @enforcer48. I've failed in that particular aspect. We're finally agree on something.
Cheer up,
@crypto.piotr your sole achievement in hive and Steem is being the best known spammer and ringleader of identity thieves and spammers. I'd say you should be ashamed of yourself but your people cooked their own in ovens because a retarded German told them to. Sooooo who are you again?
Who is "Retarded German" in this story my dear @nathanpieters?
I'm wonderful person, full of great ideas and patience towards haters, like yourself. I trully cannot feel ashamed. At the end of the day - having personal club of haters is quite amusing.
Ciao
Aaahahahaha he claims ignorance.
I wonder if the polacks are still eating human flesh in the hills.
Suck a dick memo spammer
:) love you too
Dear @phgnomo
User behind @enforcer48 seem to have personal reason to dislike me and I'm really not sure if it make any sense to try to convince him to see things from different angle.
And being called "human garbage" by this particular person doesn't surprisse me a bit. He proved many times to be hostile toward our project and our efforts.
Yours,
@crypto.piotr
Lol. 3 months ago when emotions were high and arcange, as you said backed down.
No, it is not a reflection of anything but the stance of one person at the time, 3 months ago, Arcange.
I dunno. If its true apparently they dont want to support a project that runs on Steem as well or it could be what @enforcer48 said. Im not familiar with that community so i cant judge.
If you want a answer on why they do it ask them. Then we can discuss the morality of their reasoning.
There really isnt because you did your best to find some and you were found lacking. If you had a "smoking gun" youd let us know.
What you need to understand is that anyone that supports Steem and Justin is either:
There is no in-between.
There are many whales, witnesses on HIVE i openly make fun of and dislike on a personal basis (marky is a dick, wolfie a coward, netuoso a leech, etc.) but there is no world in which i will ever pick Justin Sun, a sociopath, over them when i look at all the facts of what happened.
You want everyone to just FORGIVE those that supported Justin. There has been a lot of hurt that happened and a lot of money at play. None of us are saints and forgivness doesnt just happen.
Here is the thing... I never mentioned anything about those that supported the Justin Sun move over the community, and as anyone else that moved to use HIVE, I also think it was a shitty (and pretty dumb) maneuver that he did.
I am talking about users, something that a platform like this need, but you guys still keep the hate about what happened to be stronger than the desire to actually work towards improving this place.
Sure you and others might have the louder voice because of your stakes, but it is so loud that you only hear what you are talking among yourself, and praise each other as the ones that know it all...
If things stay moving on the direction it is right now, the big stake holders (wich, at moment I don't have much interest in becoming one) will be the only ones around, holding a crypto that will lose value day after day.
The fact that some of these stakeholders adopt this kind of attitude towards those that still use both blockchains is only a symptom of a culture that is too egotistical, and think they are better than the rest of the users.
This isn't a welcoming place, if you don't belong to the 'inner circles' in a way or another.
Who is doing that? You were free to give examples but you didnt.
What hate? Hate for Steem? Ofc people will hate Steem. Steem (Justin) stole 5 million USD from our witnesses and whales.
How out of touch with reality are you when you make the demand for those that got their money stolen to stop hating STEEM. Would you?
Huh? Im not a big stakeholder. Far from it. None of these people like me and 100% of them would love if i went away because i call them out for being assholes when they act as assholes.
On Steem there is only 1 voice that matters, Justins, while on HIVE everyone's voice matters.
Fuck, Bernie, one of the top whales on HIVE literally hates me, downvotes almost every post i make because i have 100x less stake then he does but there are far more people that care about what i have to say then what he does.
You have whales that have direct control over the platform and you can still be heard despite that.
Give me 1 example of any other platform where that is the case!
HIVE is fucking brilliant.
It is a welcoming place by default. I dont belong to any inner circle and i dont have to.
Take personal responsibility for your success. Dont play a victim and pretend that no one can get ahead. That is a lie.
And we go round and round and round to the same place.
It's amazing how someone can't critique something around here that is labeled as "hater", "playing victim", or whatever the new word is, instead of actually going through the point of the discussion...
But anyway... HIVE culture being the HIVE culture...
Again, you're talking nonsense. I criticize Hive all the time. No one is calling me a hater.
If you criticize Hive and lift up steem though, that's a whole other thing and don't expect people to like you.
If you can't understand why that is I can't help you.
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When did I lift up Steem again?
I was talking about the users and about using incentives instead of punishment for them to choose HIVE over Stemm, but like I said, the hatred for Steem doesn't allow you to actually focus on the real point of this whole discussion, and keeps circling back to "oooo steem is bad, Justin is bad..."
But here is a little secret: The average user don't care about the "drama" that happened on the past, they will use the best platform for their needs, and the hostile attitude coming from some big stakeholders can be a good solid reason for them not using HIVE and move to Steem.
I think everyone agreed that for HIVE to grow, it need to attract more users right?
Maybe I am wrong, and these stakeholders only want HIVE to be their particular playground where you must be friends with the rich kid to be allowed to play...
Who are these people youre talking about? Youre making shit up. Making up a problem that doesnt exist.
Someone is attacking people who crosspost on Steem?
Im asking again, who are these people that attack others SIMPLY for crossposting and who is it exactly thats attacked.
I want to help defend them if that is the case. But you gotta tell me who these people are.
You cant just make a claim and expect me to accept it because you pretend to stand on the side of "justice". You gotta have someone thats victimized to claim justice.
You cant just make up something bad and claim its happening when its not.
Damn, you seem to have a problem understanding the point of a discussion...
This kind of attitude happened more than one time, but I won't spend my time going through the whole HIVE blockchain history and Discord talk just to give you more examples. I got more important stuff to do with my time.
But anyway, the way you are treating this debate is exactly what happens when someone around here tries to bring to light anything that someone thing is wrong with the direction this blockchain is going...
Why talk about the core problem of the issue raised (i this case, the hostility culture that exists toward those that act in a way the big stakeholders don't agree with) when you can "demand" the other part to show proof, right?
lol. Look. If you cant back what you say then STFU and dont say anything.
I know that sounds harsh but theres nothing else i can tell you.
Youre not "bringing light" to anything. Youre making shit up and you cant back anything you say. Youre fabricating an issue and arguing for it. The issue youre arguing for isnt real, its not happening. Your inability to provide examples a proof of it after a dozen comments..
Wow. So when someone makes any kind of accusation we should discuss it and disregard that the accusers have 0 evidence to support it. #JustBelieveAccusers
You know what? We should move to a more serious accusation.
All HIVE witnesses are rapists.
You want evidence? Well:
Why talk about the core problem of the issue raised, when you can "demand" the other part to show proof, right?
Dude, you dont know how to think. You need to learn how to think and im not trying to attack your intelligence. Knowing how to think is something you can legitimately learn. If you want i can point you towards some helpful materials.
This is just a waste of time.
I can make fun of you if you want. I can stomp on you so hard that you wont be able to look another man in the eye for a month but i want to help you.
Google: "Skeptical empiricism" and "scientific method" and go from there. If will help you with everything in life.
oooo look at you, i am so jealous that you "know how to think" and I don't.
But tell me, how is an ad hominem argument actually showing you know how to think?
I could look around for more examples, and there is plenty around, but not really with time to dig through them, so... be my guest if you want to do it.
But sure, keep your way of screaming like a kid "hey mom, he called my toy ugly! i will call him ugly back!" and let's see where this will end up...
You just shown you dont know how to think by making the absurd argument you made. Thats not an ad hominem attack.
Source: Wikipedia
Say again?
Funny. I'm not welcomed to use Steem by the powers that may be there, so why do you make it sound one-sided?
Still not the point. The issue I am talking is not about whoever is to blame for whatever happened on Steem.
My point is about how many actual users you want HIVE to keep, instead of they moving completely to another platform, or even how many more people the witness want to join HIVE.
People are more willing to stay on a place if they are incentivized to, and not punished for going across the street.
That is marketing 101...
But if network growth isn't something the witness want for the blockchain, well... just keep doing what you guys are doing.
What do you want about "incentives".
Just have that wonderful project to upvote you.
Or, I guess your 20% tribute is not good enough to get you into their "in" club?
What type of content does Hive need to generate more interests? what type of content doesn't work for the blockchain? excluding the obvious plagiarism and spam.
I think most any content can attract users, almost any niche has an active audience somewhere on the web. It's about getting their attention.
Oh man, q-off crypto, how is it being a father? 😊😀 Me and my girlfriend are thinking about our first maybe in the near future
When I found out we were pregnant I was very upset, I wasn't ready. After my son was born, not a single day has gone by where he hasn't been the focus of my life and the most joy.
Oh that is so nice. I kinda do not know am I ready or no, i guess you never know until it just happens
That's really what it comes down to, you will never be ready.
As someone who has owned their own business since high school, I was always worried it was a bad time.
I'm glad it was forced on to me and I didn't wait as I likely would never had been ready and miss out on the best experience of my life.
That is awesome, how old is he?
Are you involved in any Blockchain project development besides Hive?
Outside of investing/trading, no.
I'm so glad you wrote this: "Over 25,000 posts and comments were censored on Steem......" because I'm every now and then dispelling the myth that content can't be censored on the blockchain.
Questions:
a. How likely is it to have rogue Witnesses on Hive?
b. Do you think Witness should be open to scrutiny?
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Really the posts were censored by Steemit as they are still on the blockchain. I can see my old posts on Steempeak with a direct link, but my profile says there are none. Unfortunately Steempeak relies on some stuff Steemit provide to show the post list, but I don't expect them to do any more development since they moved to Hive.
My view is: Any method that is used to conceal or impede free access to material that would ordinarily be accessible by an authority be it government or service provider is Censorship. "A rose by any other name...." and all that.
What Steemit have done is definitely censorship and seriously devalues their platform even if there are other ways to see the content as they are the main destination for Steem now. They just couldn't stand to have any dissenting voices. Now I have sold all my STEEM I have no reason to go there.
I'm maintaining my Steemit account simply to gain SBD which I then use to buy Hive. Already done it once. LOL
They started to censor at the node level, and no one wants to run nodes for Steem.
Censorship is not only the removal of information but also the obstruction of it being freely available.
While you can say it is not censorship as it still exists, that is not the only requirement for censorship.
Censorship is the suppression of information not the removal.
I agree Steemit have censored content as they make it hard to see on their own site. They try to pretend 'this is fine' whilst their house burns down (meme in text!). I am done with them.
I don't think they even care enough about what people think to pretend it is fine.
Not likely as they can easily be voted out, not one entity owns enough stake to keep a witness in power against the wish of the community.
Everyone should be.
This blockchain experiment is about 4.5 years old, but still only has a few thousand active users. I see various opinions on why it lacks growth (too complex, too free!, downvotes). What do you see as the limiting factor?
Complexity, Lack of Marketing, Doubt
I know there are plans to work on these issues once we get past the next few critical hard forks.
Agreed that those are big issues. I do get involved with some of the groups trying to improve things. I think we need to be making progress continually to build awareness and community.
Cheers
Is @roomservice really your second identity?
I have heard it was, as well as being Bernie, Freedom, Ned, and Blocktrades. I'm a busy busy person.
If you could give one bit of advice to someone new to crypto, what would that advice be?
Never believe the hype, do your own research and never invest anything you can't afford to lose.
There are no sure bets.
How much work it would be to get smart contracts into the Blockchain code? Is there a way like Justin Sun do via copy and paste? :)
if its super hart to code, it would be in my opinion makes sense to onboard programmers to do that work and fund it with DAO. This would bring Hive to the next level.
I really believe Hive would be the most awesome Blockchain with Smart contracts + Smt. The combination is so powerful with the features Hive already has.
It is a bit of work but we do have developers who are capable of doing it. There are other things that must come first before that can be considered though.
What character traits you'd say you have in common with Mal?
What are your opinions on companions?
~Josie~
vi or emacs?
Vim of course. What type of monster uses Emacs
Ok, to fill in the free time, I give this question for you
St. Merdeka is a straight road, there are 5 houses lined up facing the road, each home owner comes from a different country, has a different breed of cat and different brands of cellphones.
The provisions of their residence, is.
In fact, the home owner who comes from Croatia lives on the right side of the Nokia cell phone owner, and of course the Croat has a cat breed type?
Angora
your schematic might be like this
Was I right?
I tried to do it earlier this morning on my cell phone and gave up.
Trump or Biden?
let the drama begin!
I'd rather vote for a monkey. In fact at this point we should elect a random US citizen.
What it all comes down to is if you prefer to be talked to like a baby by a baby, or would you like to be groped and sniffed by a weird old pervert.
Do you endorse @hivepope as the spiritual leader of the blockchain?
Never heard of HivePope until now.
Shocking. Repent!
why do you daily post while also being top witness so u harvest rewards of HIVE double ?
My author rewards are like 10% of my witness rewards. I wish more witnesses posted and were not off doing who knows what.
Why do you swallow justyys cum?
https://twitter.com/MarkyHive/status/1303247345782525957
Looks like I'm late but I think party is not over as you are top 20 witness so I would like to ask you my question.
Whare would you see hive in 3 years?
What are the major upgrade due to the hive blockchain which can help onboarding mass?
What about the power down time there is any discussion to reduce it to lower?
I hope I will get my answers
@themarkymark
I'd like to see a significantly larger user base.
A lot of what can be done for on-boarding is 2nd layer and not necessarily blockchain level.
There has been numerous discussions, but nothing officially planned at this point.
Do you feel that your past history of selling votes was a necessary evil or how do you feel about it?
If I didn't do it, someone else would with the same SP and they would have sold votes to pretty much anyone rather than preventing spammers, plagiarists, and scammers from using it.
I'd rather have the system we have now, but that wasn't in the cards back then and none of the bots were preventing abuse of their bots or actively fighting abuse on the chain.
I still believe all platforms have and should have advertising, and at the time that was the only form available.
What had mitigated that issue on hive? Was it the 50/50 split or is it something y'all still content with?
I recall some of the players of old such as boomerang iirc that had little to no accountability.
The EIP gave the community the resources (free downvotes) to combat spam and abuse, they collectively decided Bid Bots were not favorable. The increased curation also encouraged people to curate rather than to sell votes or shit post. Although both of these still happen just not nearly as much.
That being said, very few people actually use downvotes or do anything about abuse.
I intend to help change the latter to fulfill the expectation I have given SFR ppl.
Think I will try to be exclusively a tech facilitator moving forward as it was a lot of drama, bullshit and stress to play flags and robbers.
Sometimes good work is hard. There is a reason no one wants to do it.
For the record and any other readers, I am still ambivalent towards the practice of vote selling even with some ethical controls.
I don't necessarily agree with the "someone else is going to do unethical thing worse than me so I might as well be the one to do and profit from doing x thing in a less impactful way" position.
But I understand why people are were this way considering the highly competitive nature of the platform and the prevailing culture at the time. It was awful.
Only a handful of bid botters worked with us abuse fighters and I will commend that Marky was one of them.
Not really 100% full on Hive , 99% Hive and 1% Gifs ....yeah those Gifs..
is it only one question ?
Which cryptos beside Hive and BTC do you target ?
I nominate every single Witness and dApp founders to do on chain AMA like this every now and then