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Hive and Mazer Reaffirm Partnership

Hive — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:20:40 GMT

Mazer (@mazergaming) first joined Hive in 2020 and recently celebrated its 4 year anniversary on Hive. Many of you will remember how we started our partnership with a charitable e-sports tournaments in benefit of ZERO Cancer at that time. Since then, Mazer has remained committed to Hive while growing as a professional esports organization. It’s official website can be found here.

We are using this opportunity to reconfirm our ongoing partnership with Mazer. In light of this, a series of promotional activities are underway.

The current promotional itinerary is:

Top Mazer streamers will have the Hive logo overlay on their streams plus a series of chat bot messages directing viewers to Hive.
A featured stream showcasing Splinterlands.
Two special events featuring the Crypto Shots game.

This is only the first round of promotions and as usual, this activity is open to all Hive games that are completed and playable by streamers. There is no need to rush with game development — the Mazer team is part of Hive and will be here for whenever your best product is ready.

Mazer is committed to supporting all the excellent games that are continuously developed on Hive. Need an expert opinion or a test run? Just reach out to Mazer, they’re happy to help.

This is a great continued relationship and as always, collaboration is the name of the game.

About Hive

Hive (hive.io) is a decentralized information-sharing blockchain built on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocol. Hive supports many different types of Web3 applications that contribute to the freedom and accessibility of data. The performance of the blockchain is designed to scale with widespread adoption of the currency and platforms in mind. By combining lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions, Hive is positioned to become one of the leading blockchain technologies used by people worldwide. Learn more about Hive and sign up today at https://hive.io.

Hive Announces Support for Ledger Hardware Wallets

Hive — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:00:21 GMT

Hive blockchain and leading Web3 platform, announced integration with Ledger Nano S, Nano S Plus, and Nano X hardware wallets effective November 1, 2022.

“Ledger wallets are secure, trusted, and widely available,” Hive developer Bartłomiej G. said. “That makes them the perfect partner for the Hive decentralized blockchain.”

Hive does not use the unspent transaction output (UTXO) protocol model. The Ledger implementation for Hive utilizes the SLIP-0048: Deterministic Key Hierarchy for Graphene-based Networks standard which extends BIP-44 standard to match role-based model.

The Hive-Ledger implementation allows users to view and manage public keys using a special Hive Ledger Wallet companion application. It facilitates the review of transaction properties such as transfers and staking amounts, HIVE and Hive-Backed Dollars (HBD) recipients, derivation paths, delegation, governance voting, and much more. All operations and their properties are visible on a device screen. Users must approve transactions with a digital signature issued by the device.

“Ledger hardware wallets allow Hive to utilize an unlimited set of private and public key pairs to secure multiple Hive accounts with the same device,” Bartłomiej G. said.

The Hive ecosystem is expanding, and recent development ensures it will continue to grow. HardFork 26 introduced the One-Block Irreversibility protocol, which solidifies Hive’s market lead among Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) blockchains.

Hardware wallets are devices that keep users’ private keys secure on a physical chip that does not expose it to the computer or the internet and which makes it almost impossible to compromise when used daily. Integration with Ledger will introduce Hive to a broader international audience who will gain access to the blockchain’s industry-leading 20 percent APR on HBD savings accounts.

For more information on the Hive-Ledger integration, check out these links on the Hive blockchain:

About Ledger

Founded in 2014, Ledger is a global digital asset and Web3 platform. More than 20 percent of the world’s crypto assets are secured through Ledger Nano wallets. Headquartered in Paris and Vierzon, France, with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Portland, Ledger has a team of more than 700 professionals developing a variety of products and services to enable individuals and companies to securely buy, store, swap, and manage crypto assets. Devices include Ledger hardware wallets with more than 5 million units sold in more than 180 countries.

Ledger combines a hardware wallet — Nano S Plus or Nano X — and the Ledger Live app to offer consumers an easy start in their crypto journey while maintaining full control over their digital assets.

With its ease of use, Ledger allows a user to begin investing in digital assets while achieving financial freedom in a safe and stress-free environment The Ledger Academy is a content portal that provides customers with education on the emerging Web3 ecosystem. Ledger has also developed Ledger Enterprise, a digital asset custody and security solution for institutional investors and financial players.

About Hive

Hive is a decentralized information-sharing network with a blockchain-based financial ledger built on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocol. Hive supports many types of information-sharing applications including a myriad of dapps, APIs, and front ends contributing to the accessibility of data on the Hive blockchain.

Hive was developed to store vast amounts of content and to make it easily available for time-based monetization. Use cases include social media with monetized rewards for content producers, interactive games, identity management, polling systems, and microloans. The performance of the blockchain is designed to scale with the widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies and crypto platforms. By combining lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions, Hive is positioned to become one of the leading blockchain technologies worldwide.

Learn more about Hive and sign up today at https://hive.io.

Hive at Caracas Blockchain Week! ¡Hive estará presente en la Caracas Blockchain Week!

Hive — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:28:36 GMT

Mas que una red social, Hive se ha convertido en un claro exponente del valor de la Web3.

Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas Blockchain Week es un evento de alcance internacional que tendrá lugar en Venezuela del 2 al 5 de noviembre. Este reunirá a comunidades, empresas, proyectos y personalidades del mundo de la blockchain y la Web3 entre quienes se cuentan el CEO de Blockchain Summit Latam, Cristobal Pereira, el Director de Blockchain Land, José Rodríguez, la líder de la comunidad de BNB Chain, Mariangel García, y el Crypto historiador, Alfre Mancera.

Hive, la gran red social de creación de contenidos, será uno de sus patrocinadores y será representado por usuarios destacados de la plataforma como: Arlette Salas, Natalia Loreto, Sam Giset, Daniel Vehe y Edgardo Cedeño, quienes estarán tocando temas como el ecosistema, la economía, el impacto social y el fondo descentralizado de Hive como parte central de sus charlas.

El evento contará con dos escenarios principales: el BeInCrypto Stage y el Bitcoin Stage; ambos tendrán presentaciones de manera simultánea. El Stage de BeInCrypto será un espacio para presentaciones más especializadas, como las relacionadas a Hive, pero en el Bitcoin Stage estará Edgardo Cedeño a las 13:45 del sábado 5 de noviembre con su presentación llamada “Web3 y Blockchain: Tendencias que están cambiando al mundo”; una charla que fue elegida por la comunidad y que va de la mano con el gran interés mundial en los beneficios y oportunidades de la Web3.

Hive ha organizado eventos en Cuba, Argentina, Holanda, Filipinas, Nigeria, Ghana y próximamente en México. Durante el último año la comunidad de Hive ha desarrollado reuniones, presentaciones, clases y eventos deportivos en Venezuela debido a la gran cantidad de usuarios que existen en el país.

Es un gran honor ser patrocinador de la Caracas Blockchain Week y un enorme paso para que más personas de este maravilloso mundo conozcan las bondades que ofrece Hive.

Hive es una red descentralizada de intercambio de información con un libro de contabilidad basado en la cadena de bloques y construido sobre el protocolo DPoS (Prueba de Participación Delegada). Hive soporta muchos tipos diferentes de aplicaciones de intercambio de información. Una miríada de aplicaciones, APIs y front-ends contribuyen a la accesibilidad de los datos en la cadena de bloques de Hive. Hive se ha desarrollado para almacenar grandes cantidades de contenido y hacerlo fácilmente disponible para la monetización basada en el tiempo. Algunos ejemplos de casos de uso son las redes sociales con recompensas monetizadas para los creadores de contenidos, los juegos interactivos, la gestión de los datos personales, los sistemas de votación y los microcréditos. El rendimiento de la cadena de bloques está diseñado para escalar teniendo en cuenta la adopción generalizada de la moneda y las plataformas. Al combinar los tiempos de procesamiento ultrarrápidos y las transacciones sin comisiones, Hive se posiciona para convertirse en una de las principales tecnologías de blockchain utilizadas por personas de todo el mundo. Obtenga más información sobre Hive y regístrese hoy mismo en https://hive.io.

Hive at Caracas Blockchain Week!

More than a social blockchain, Hive has become a clear exponent of the value of Web3.

Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas Blockchain Week is an international event that will take place in Venezuela from November 2nd to 5th. It will bring together communities, companies, projects and personalities from the blockchain and Web3 world, including the CEO of Blockchain Summit Latam, Cristobal Pereira, the Director of Blockchain Land, José Rodríguez, the leader of the BNB Chain community, Mariangel García, and the Crypto historian, Alfre Mancera.

Hive is thrilled to sponsor the CBW. Hive will be represented by community members Arlette Salas, Natalia Loreto, Sam Giset, Daniel Vehe and Edgardo Cedeño, who will be touching on the topics of ecosystem, economy, social impact, and Hive’s decentralized funding mechanism as a central part of their dynamic presentations.

The event will feature two main stages: the BeInCrypto Stage and the Bitcoin Stage; both will have simultaneous presentations. The BeInCrypto Stage will be a space for more specialized presentations, such as those related to Hive, but the Bitcoin Stage will feature Edgardo Cedeño at 13:45 on Saturday, November 5 with his presentation called “Web3 and Blockchain: Trends that are changing the world”; a talk that was chosen by the community and that goes hand in hand with the great worldwide interest in the benefits and opportunities of Web3.

Hive has organized events in Cuba, Argentina, the Netherlands, Philippines, Nigeria, Ghana and soon in Mexico. During the last year, the Hive community has developed meetings, presentations, classes and sporting events in Venezuela due to the large number of community members in the country.

It is a great honor to be a sponsor of the Caracas Blockchain Week and a huge step for more people in this wonderful world to know the benefits offered by Hive.

Hive is a decentralized information-sharing network with an accompanying blockchain-based financial ledger built on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocol. Hive supports many different types of information-sharing applications. A myriad of dapps, APIs, and front-ends contribute to the accessibility of data on the Hive blockchain. Hive is developed to store vast amounts of content and to make it easily available for time-based monetization. Examples of use cases include social media with monetized rewards for content producers, interactive games, identity management, polling systems, and micro-loans. The performance of the blockchain is designed to scale with widespread adoption of the currency and platforms in mind. By combining the lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions, Hive is positioned to become one of the leading blockchain technologies used by people worldwide. Learn more about Hive and sign up today at https://hive.io.

Living the blockchain dream: Hive community drivers and members meet in Amsterdam for their 7th…

Hive — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 22:13:45 GMT

Living the blockchain dream: Hive community drivers and members meet in Amsterdam for their 7th get-together

Hive (Hive.io) — one of the first blockchains to enable content creators and DApp builders to get rewarded for their contributions — is meeting with community members again in Amsterdam from September 15–18.

While many blockchain and crypto communities exist mainly via anonymous accounts which are driven by monetary gains alone, Hive and its groundbreaking offerings are a living proof of just how different a truly decentralized community-owned Web 3 can be. To celebrate all of the milestones the Hive ecosystem has achieved since inception, the first in-person gathering after the pandemic is fast approaching! End users, developers, investors, gamers, businesses and enthusiasts will be coming together for a three day conference featuring talks and roundtables on Hive’s Web 3-based solutions to real life challenges — as well as to get back down to partying together with friends from all over the world.

The event series originally began in 2016 when the majority of Hive community members were the investors powering a now-abandoned blockchain called Steem(it). With the creation of the grassroots fork that launched Hive and broke away from corporate influence, this premiere event has become an even bigger celebration of the ingenuity, persistence, and power held by a diverse, engaged and active community. HiveFest is the annual gathering for Hive and blockchain enthusiasts, bringing together people from over 90 different countries around the world.

Apart from discussing blockchain innovation, related topics and meeting one another, a major aim of the event is to develop new strategic steps to make this incredible community better positioned in the DPoS space. The Hive blockchain has already gained significant coverage around the success of Splinterlands, which has been repeatedly reported as one of the most played and most popular play-to-earn games of all time. Hive is continually developing further solutions to give businesses of any size a perfect platform to create solid products leveraging the benefits of a social blockchain and enabling them to offer their clients a fast and secure environment.

HiveFest is an all-inclusive event; attendees will network over the course of three days, meeting during the inspiring and informative presentations, mealtimes and cocktail hours, evening entertainment programs, and other engaging activities designed to highlight the best of the local surroundings. The organizers also offer the event happenings simultaneously via an inclusive Metaverse platform to ensure that people from the entire world are able to attend.

About Hive:

Hive is a decentralized information-sharing network with an accompanying blockchain-based financial ledger built on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocol. Hive supports many different types of information-sharing applications. A myriad of dapps, APIs, and front-ends contribute to the accessibility of data on the Hive blockchain. Hive is developed to store vast amounts of content and to make it easily available for time-based monetization. Examples of use cases include social media with monetized rewards for content producers, interactive games, identity management, polling systems, and micro-loans. The performance of the blockchain is designed to scale with the widespread adoption of the currency and platforms in mind. By combining the lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions, Hive is positioned to become one of the leading blockchain technologies used by people worldwide.

Learn more about Hive and sign up today at https://signup.hive.io
Get your HiveFest tickets at https://hivefe.st

One-Block Irreversibility for Delegated Proof-Of-Stake (DPOS)

Hive — Mon, 09 May 2022 04:57:57 GMT

Today we bring you a look behind the scenes in Hive development with a glimpse into the thought process of the lead Hive developer as he analyses new potential approaches for Hive.

Read and comment on Hive: https://hive.blog/hive-139531/@blocktrades/one-block-irreversibility-for-delegated-proof-of-stake-dpos

One-block Irreversibility (OBI) is a proposed protocol change whereby a block will be considered irreversible as soon as a sufficiently large super majority of the currently scheduled block producers vote that the block in question should become the next valid block in the blockchain. The goal of this protocol change is to enable most Hive transactions to become irreversible within a few hundred milliseconds (before a second block has even been produced, hence the name “One-block Irreversibility”).

Despite the name, the OBI protocol doesn’t guarantee that EVERY block will become irreversible in one block. Indeed, in the general case, it might take N blocks for irreversibility, which we could refer to as an OBI-N case, but in the overwhelming common case, we can expect irreversibility to happen in one block (i.e. OBI-one) because of the force inherent in this protocol.

As a side note, my understanding is that there have been proposals for somewhat-related, but not yet implemented, protocols to speedup block finality by Ethereum devs (Casper?) and EOS devs (DPOS 3.0+BFT), but for various reasons I didn’t review either of those proposed protocols in sufficient depth, so I won’t be comparing and contrasting them to this protocol.

Before going into detail on the proposed protocol change, let me first explain what is meant by an irreversible block, and why it is an important concept for DPOS-based blockchains such as Hive.

Similarities between Irreversible (DPOS terminology) and Fully Confirmed (Proof-of-work terminology)

An irreversible block in DPOS is similar to a fully confirmed block in a proof-of-work blockchain.
Both concepts are used as a way to be confident that a crypto transaction (for example, a money transfer to your wallet) has been accepted by the network and that enough block-producing nodes have agreed that this transaction happened that it is safe to assume the transaction (in the example case, your payment) can’t be reversed by a fork.

For example, if you operate a store that accepts bitcoin payments, you might not want to let your customer leave the store with their items until their bitcoin transaction has fully confirmed. For bitcoin, a block is generally considered fully confirmed when 6 further blocks have been built on top of the block (each subsequent block can be viewed as “vote of confidence” in the original block). With an average block production time of 10 minutes, this means you could be waiting about an hour (6 * 10 minutes) to be sure of your payment.

Obviously waiting one hour for a payment wouldn’t be practical for most retail stores, and this has led to many workarounds (including perhaps most famously, the Bitcoin Lightning Network).

An important difference: irreversible blocks cannot be automatically reversed

Theoretically, even “fully confirmed” blocks can automatically be reverted by bitcoin nodes, but it is generally assumed that such an eventuality is so extremely unlikely in practice that it is safe to rely on the payment.

So, while they are similar concepts, there is an important difference between DPOS irreversible blocks and POW’s fully confirmed blocks: irreversible blocks cannot be reversed automatically, but fully confirmed blocks can be.

In other words, unlike transactions on the bitcoin network, the transactions in irreversible blocks are irreversibly confirmed and can no longer be reverted from the node’s internal financial ledger due to a fork unless the node operator manually intervenes by popping the most recent blocks from the block history of the node and then replaying the blocks in the blockchain.

So if two nodes in a DPOS network end up on different forks with irreversible blocks in the two forks, those two nodes can never switch to a common fork (an irreversible split in the blockchain) without manual intervention by at least one of the node operators. This is undesirable, so it is best to be conservative when choosing a heuristic for determining when a node should treat a block as irreversible.

Irreversibility under current Hive DPOS protocol

Right now, a block becomes irreversible in Hive once 3/4ths of the witnesses (currently scheduled block producers) have “voted” on including the block into the blockchain.

Under the current DPOS protocol, a block producer votes for a previous block by linking to it when it produces its own block. For example, if block producer 1 (bp1) produces block A, the next block producer (i.e. bp2) can create a block B that links back to A (by including the hash of block A in block B). This can viewed as bp2 voting for the fork that includes block A. If the next block producer (bp3) builds off block B, this is yet another vote for the fork that includes block A.

Once 15 of the 21 block producers (3/4*21=15.75 rounded down to 15) have built off a block, it becomes irreversible. The basic idea behind this is that if ¾ of the block producers are on the same fork, it would be extremely unlikely that the remaining ¼ of the block producers could create a longer chain.

Another thing that further makes such a possibility unlikely is that Hive block producers, by default, are configured to not generate blocks if the “participation rate” drops below 33%. The participation rate is a metric used by block producers to see how many other block-producing nodes they are directly or indirectly in contact with via the peer-to-peer network (they measure this by tracking if they receive the most recent blocks produced by these block producers).

For example, imagine a network split happens between North America and Europe due to an ocean cable being cut, with 3/4ths of the block producers connected via the European side of the split, and the remaining 1/4th connected on the North American side of the split. The block producers on the European side would continue to produce blocks (because the participation rate would be ¾ = 75%) but the North American block producers would stop producing blocks entirely after the participation dropped below 33% (it would rapidly drop to ¼ = 25%) and only the chain fork on the European side would continue to add new blocks. This is generally beneficial, because it makes it difficult to launch a double-spend attack during the time the network is split.

So how does irreversibility play out in such a case? If all 3/4ths of the nodes on the European side were successfully producing blocks, blocks would still become irreversible, because a block would eventually get 75% of the block producers to build off of it. But if one of these block producers stopped producing because of some computer outage, even the European fork would no longer have enough block producers to mark the new blocks as irreversible.

Since the current irreversibility algorithm requires 15 blocks to be built off a block before that block becomes irreversible, the fastest time a block can become irreversible in Hive now is 45 seconds (15 blocks * 3 seconds /block).

We can see that the current delay in finalizing a block occurs because each block producer can only “vote” by creating his scheduled block, and these blocks are produced sequentially, once every 3 seconds. But what if all the scheduled block producers could vote immediately after they receive a block, instead of having to wait their turn to vote?

The OBI protocol in action

The distinguishing feature of the OBI protocol is that each block producer will broadcast a “valid vote” to the p2p network for each block it receives, immediately after it has successfully validated the block and made it the new head block for its local copy of the blockchain (instead of just waiting its turn to implicitly vote for the block when it produces its own block).

This new mechanism allows for block producers to reach consensus on the validity of a block much faster than the existing mechanism (in a well-connected network, a block should typically become irreversible before the next block is even produced).

Here’s a simple example of how this works in practice:

Block producer 1 (the block producer scheduled to produce the next block) generates and broadcasts a block to the p2p network.
Other nodes receive this block and temporarily apply it as the next block in their local copy of the blockchain to test if the block is valid. If the block is valid, the node’s local state will be updated with the transactions contained in the block. If the block is invalid, the node will roll back the changes made by the block to their local state. So far, this is how the DPOS protocol currently works.
New OBI step: If the node is one of the scheduled block producers, the node signs and broadcasts a new type of p2p message call a block_validity_vote if it considered the block valid and made it the new head block for it’s local copy of the blockchain. This message, signed with the block producer’s signature, contains the block producer’s name and the block id of the newly applied block.
New OBI step: Each node will keep a temporary buffer of the valid block_validity_votes it receives (and also propagate these votes to their peers using the normal p2p rules for message propagation). If a nodes receives the required ¾ majority of distinct block producer votes for a block, that block can be marked as irreversible and written to its block_log.

In a normally well-connected Hive p2p network, this should result in most blocks becoming irreversible on a node within a second or less after they are produced. The exact time required depends on the message latency between nodes and number of network hops between the node and the block producers.

As a side note, recent optimizations to the p2p network code have reduced the time for messages to traverse hops between nodes (and also made it easier for nodes to cheaply maintain direct connectivity to more peers and thus reduce the number of hops between nodes, but I think the current default of 20 peers will be more than sufficient for most use-cases).

Faster irreversibility without blockchain bloat

At the inception of the idea, the design behind One-block Irreversibility included storing the approval vote messages into the next block as a means of proving irreversibility of the prior block. But this adds unnecessary bloat to the size of blockchain, because the existing mechanism for proving a block is irreversible already works well for all but the most recent blocks.

Instead, to prove that recent blocks are irreversible, nodes can keep around the block_validity_votes that they receive to mark a block as irreversible until they have received a sufficient number of follow-on blocks that build off the block. At that point, the block_validity_votes for that block can be discarded.

So one of the nice aspects of the OBI protocol is that it doesn’t increase the amount of blockchain storage, because the block_validity_votes are only kept temporarily in memory (and only a small amount of memory is required).

New votes by a block producer override its old votes at a given block number

Nodes employing the OBI protocol only track the most recent vote cast by each block producer. So if a block producer switches to a different fork, all the votes it cast for blocks that will be discarded during the fork switch will be “overwritten” by the votes it casts for the new blocks at those block positions. In other words, at any given time, every node will only consider one vote by a specific block producer at a specific block position.

Better monitoring of the state of the P2P network and blockchain

Another interesting aspect of the OBI protocol is that it allows for much better monitoring of the status of the Hive P2P network when it is experiencing connectivity problems than was previously possible. Every node in the network (block producer or regular hived node) is tracking the current head block of every block producer it is connected to, effectively knowing how many block producers are connected to its network and which forks they are on.

Improving irreversibility by counting blocks as implicit votes

Blocks that build off a block are also votes for a block’s irreversibility. So rather than simply counting block_validity_votes, nodes will also count the number of subsequent blocks that build off the block (to the extent that these new “block votes” don’t overlap with block producer votes they have received). This is basically how DPOS 1.0 treated subsequent blocks as votes for the previous blocks.

In a well-connected network, this should not result in any speedup in the time it takes for a block to become irreversible, because votes will be cast much more rapidly than new blocks will be built off the block, but it should improve irreversibility time when the network is experiencing outages that cause some votes to be missed.

Longer witness scheduling to be able to determine the next block producers

For optimal performance, the OBI protocol should maintain constant knowledge of the next 21 scheduled block producers, so that nodes know which block producers are casting legal votes.

In the current code, the next set of block producers are selected once every 21 blocks. So, for example, after 18 blocks have been produced in the round, only the next 3 block producers are known. If a node only knows the next 3 block producers, it can’t get a ¾ majority of the next 21 block producers.

To enable all blocks to be potentially irreversible without waiting for more blocks to be generated, the OBI code also modifies the witness scheduling algorithm by scheduling a 2nd round beyond the round that is currently producing blocks. This means that nodes will know at least the next 21 block producers at all times, and as many as the next 42 block producers, so any given block can potentially receive a sufficient number of votes to be become irreversible without waiting for another block to be generated.

Longer schedules to reduce chance for irreversible forks during a big voting slate change

Another benefit of the above change is that votes to replace the current set of block producers will take longer to take effect and this helps reduce the chance for an irreversible fork.

In the current protocol, it can take between 1 to 21 blocks before a witness vote change affects which block producers are elected to product a block. For example, let’s assume that the nodes have just scheduled the next 21 witnesses to produce blocks. New witnesses can be voted on, but the currently scheduled witnesses will still be the ones to produce the next 21 blocks. Only after the round is finished will any new witness be able to produce a block. So, in the shortest case, a bunch of witness votes could be included into the last block in the round, and the entire slate of top 20 witnesses could be replaced in the next block. This could potentially lead to problems for One-block Irreversibility if such votes were cast in the last block of a round and the network forks during this time, leaving a split network where some nodes received the vote transaction(s) that changed the witness slate (and therefore start using a different set of witnesses to determine a ¾ majority than the other side of the fork). In such a problem case, both forks could get a ¾ majority of “their” witnesses, and the two sides of the split wouldn’t be able to regain consensus without manual intervention (an irreversible split).

Fortunately, to address problems of this type, the OBI protocol has a longer set of scheduled witnesses, so there will always be a guarantee of at least 21 blocks produced by the currently scheduled witnesses before newly-voted-in witnesses that were elected in the current head block can produce blocks.

Parting thoughts

As far as I’m aware, the One-block Irreversibility protocol will put Hive at the forefront in terms of transaction confirmation time.

Hive already had one of the fastest average blockchain confirmation times at 45 seconds, so you may be wondering while I think it’s so important to speed it up further. The biggest benefit comes for 2nd layer apps:

First, 2nd layer apps can now be more interactive with their users, since they have faster guarantees of irreversibility.

And second, HAF-based apps will benefit in terms of better performance, because HAF table views stitch together two types of tables (tables for irreversible data and reversible data). When most of the data is in the irreversible table, a HAF server will operate faster (because there’s more overhead required to maintain reversible tables).

Indeed, with OBI in play, it would not be surprising if many HAF apps don’t just elect to rely strictly on the irreversible data, since blocks will normally become irreversible within one second or less. And this will really speed up the performance of SQL queries for such apps, because the stitching together of data from two different tables is no longer required.

So, all-in-all, I believe the incorporation of One-block Irreversibility will have profound benefits for the scalability of Hive apps (and the potential growth rate of the entire ecosystem).

Fighting for a better life with Hive

Hive — Sat, 07 May 2022 01:23:34 GMT

Blockchain community sponsors first edition of Street Workout Duals Battles in Latin America

Decentralized / World, May 6, 2022 — Hive (Hive.io) — one of the first blockchains that enabled content creators since March 2020 to get rewarded for their content — announces sponsorship for the Street Workout Community in Venezuela supporting a series of sports competitions. The first event will take place on May 7, 10 AM in Parque Los Aviadores in Maracay, the largest mall in Venezuela and the fourth biggest in Latin America.

With this move the global blockchain continues on its path to prove how a blockchain community can support people and initiatives around the world, especially in countries with failing economies. This second episode is highlighting why blockchain technology is able to bring back hope to the youth of financially struggling countries. An important aim is to demonstrate and showcase reasons why the young generation can stay in their country after a huge emigration wave. With communities such as Hive, young talents realize that personal success from anywhere in the world is possible and there is no need to go abroad and leave their families which would weaken the local economy even more.

The event format is comprised of a 2vs2 athletic competition and will give the street workout (calisthenic) discipline a platform enabling the young generation in Venezuela to prove their skills. The young athletes can establish relations with other contestants, sponsors and brands hopefully enabling them to find their life purpose, ideally a new job straight away or at the very least join Hive.io and follow their entrepreneurial goals, becoming active in the network and community there.

“We are happy to welcome many athletes and spectators for this first workout event and are looking forward to give the attendees a platform to find new ways of earning for their living” a community representative of Hive comments: “In our current world of selfishness, greed and wars we want to show positive signal and prove that diverse global communities, no matter how big they are can make a change, resulting in this planet becoming a better place — the support of our Decentralized Hive Fund that donated directly to this cause was encouraging and only the smile of one contestant makes this effort worthwhile”, he adds.

Being only one of many stories how Web3 technology can help society and solve real life problems, Hive is working on further opportunities to support its community and development of new features is ongoing.

About Hive:

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Surviving with Hive — a real life story

Hive — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:36:41 GMT

Surviving with Hive — a real life story

How a blockchain community improved real life issues of a shop owner in South America

Decentralized / World, April 13, 2022 — Hive (Hive.io) — one of the first blockchains that enabled content creators since March 2020 to get rewarded for their content — is starting a showcase series to prove how a blockchain community is able to change lives for business owners around the world, especially in countries with failing economies. In this first episode a true story from a mechanic shop owner in Venezuela shows how blockchain technology is able to change life of individuals and to form a better world.

Joseth David, aged 32, based in Venezuela is a car mechanic who opened his business back in 2012. The business did flourish until the country situation changed dramatically. Due to economic and political issues within Venezuela such as high inflation, huge unemployment rate and others his profession and originally well-visited business was not enough to feed his family during the last years. Joseth David — as many of his fellow countrymen — had to come up with new approaches to maintain his shop in order to build the basis of living for his family.

After hearing about the Hive blockchain from a friend he started to create content on the social media part of the chain and realized he can earn some funds by providing valuable content to the community. He published stories around his daily work writing in the Spanish language and was surprised people enjoyed his content which resulted in Hive cryptocurrency rewards.

Joseth David says: “Without the Hive rewards I swapped into my local currency I would have not been able to continue my business at all. My shop was close to bankruptcy, my family suffered as we have not been able to buy meat, this has changed now luckily”.

A community representative of Hive states: “We have been working on the community aspects of the Hive blockchain since several years already. Competing with traditional social media platforms such as Facebook is not easy but only this story motivates us to develop much more into our blockchain”.

“I am now even accepting HBD (pegged Hive currency known as Hive Backed Dollar) as payment for my services and am promoting the blockchain via workshops so also others in my country can benefit from the opportunities this blockchain offers to us,” Joseth David adds.

Being only one of many stories how blockchain can help society and solve real life problem, Hive is working on new opportunities to support its community and development of new features is ongoing.

About Hive:

Learn more about Hive and sign up today at https://hive.io/

Hive Celebrates Communities: Discover the Diversity of Hive!

Hive — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:12:37 GMT

Last week we challenged our Hive community members to celebrate, nominate, and tell us about their favorite … what else? Communities! And we sure were amazed at how many entries we received. Our Hive ecosystem is as diverse as it is decentralized. We have everything from foodies, to chess players, to musicians, to fungi-hunters. It goes to show that no matter where your passion lies, there is a place for you on Hive.

So without any further delay and in no particular order we introduce you to a sampling of Hive communities!

General Hive or Multi-Community Posts

City of Neoxian
Submitted by @Neoxian (Leader and ruler with an iron fist)

My city and online tribe and chat group. Website is neoxian.city. We have a matrix chat group https://matrix.to/#/#city-of-neoxian:matrix.org . Token is NEOXAG. We are a general purpose forum and close knit group. Very active in Splinterlands with a Top 3 guild.

ReggaeJAHM
Submitted by @Dmillz (The IRIE Leader)

ReggaeJAHM is a niche community for Reggae, Caribbean and IRIE content (IRIE = positive and uplifting). Everyone is welcome to post as long as it relates to the themes above. By using #JAHM, it goes to our interface and will be earning JAHM tokens which can be used to buy beats!

The Terminal
Submitted by @Thekittygirl (Co-Founder/Admin)

The primary goal of The Terminal is to answer questions about Hive, cryptocurrency, and Discord. Founded in December of 2018, we help folks learn the etiquette and workings of the blockchain, grow their accounts, and find communities where they can thrive. We are like a travel terminal for destinations on the blockchain! Discord

Ladies of Hive
Submitted by @Silversaver888 (Founder) and @Thekittygirl (Co-Founder/Admin)

A community that focuses on women — their interests, joys, passions, and share stories of their journey in life. Our mission is to empower and encourage female/feminine/femme-identifying voices on Hive. We are here to support, uplift, and learn from one another. We believe female voices and ideas should find equal representation in all corners of the blockchain. This is an inclusive space, and we welcome all who also support this vision. Our motto: Women empowering each other. Our token: LADY (LOH). Discord: Link.

Ecotrain

@Emeka4’s Community Celebration Post

Thoughtful Daily Post
Submitted by @Wesphilbin (Founder/Admin/Curator)

This is a community for those participating in the Thoughtful Daily Post movement, created by me, @Wesphilbin, on June 23rd, 2019. Best described by a dear friend as follows; “The tag #thoughtfuldailypost can be applied to any post that speaks of positivity, uplifting topics, inspiration, reflection (especially self-reflection), deep musings about our human nature, spiritual aspects, and other philosophical inclinations. Despite the word “daily” in the tag, it is not necessary to write a post every day to participate — a single post of a thoughtful nature is welcome any time! We need more positivity and thoughtfulness in the world, now more than ever!” Even a bad day can be thoughtful, so show everyone your thoughtful daily post!

Polish HIVE
Submitted by @Jocieprosza (Leader (since Monday))

The name is self explanatory, isn’t it? It’s a community built for Polish speaking people in order to increase engagement among current users and help with onboarding future ones. The community had its best days already, but its work created a foundation on which new users can find themselves on Hive (f.e. Users took part in contest to create FAQ’s and tutorials about Hive). Community has an active twitter account.

STEMsocial
Submitted by @Lemouth (Leader (role shared with @Mobbs))

STEMsocial is a project dedicated to improving the quality of STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics) content on the Hive blockchain. The problem, as we see it, has always been that those with the greatest knowledge of STEM subjects lack incentive to communicate their work to mainstream audiences, leaving the majority of scientific reporting to journalists. As a result, only the most positive, groundbreaking and bizarre stories get heard, often becoming misinterpreted into ‘fake news’ by mainstream media. We at STEMsocial offer a new approach and provide a space among a thriving global community of like-minded individuals where both experts and passionate STEM bloggers can freely distribute their knowledge in a social media environment that actively promotes and rewards honest, reliable and high-quality content. Discord

Silver Gold Stackers
Submitted by @Buggedout (Custodian of the Community Curation Project)

A group of like minds who like to share and promote smart investments in precious metals. Discord

Buggedout’s Community Celebration Post

The Alliance
Submitted by @Enginewitty

The Alliance is one of the oldest communities on Hive born before tribes and Hive-Engine had tags to curate. We believe in getting to know you and do not discriminate the genre of your blogging style. As long as you’re willing to help others, we’ll help you. “I created @thealliance itself (before creating the curation account) the end of July in 2017 in response to noticing that a team and support was needed to be successful here. We have since adopted (and continue to) many people and seen them grow with us and launch their own initiatives.” Discord

Inthenow’s Community Celebration Post

Paper in my Pocket
Submitted by @Enginewitty

The PIMP initiative is designed to adhere to the financial side of why many of us are here. Those that stake our token (currently the top 50) are rewarded with daily slices of our pie and we have meetings every Wednesday to decide what direction(s) to take. “I am the ‘King PIMP’, ‘PIMP Master’ ‘THE Pimp’, ‘The original HIVE P.I.M.P.’ and ‘@thecryptopimp’. I’ve created multiple support accounts to foster portfolio growth of our PIMPs and try hard to lead them the best I can.” Community Pages, Telegram

BDCommunity
Submitted by @Zayedsakib (Curator)

BDCommunity, as the name suggests is a sanctuary for Bangladeshi and Bengali speaking authors. But the community itself is not bound by any language barrier as we welcome everyone with open arms. our main objective is to introduce, help and give creators a place to write and create contents freely without being bounded by any niche. to put more simply, BDCommunity is our home.

NeedleWorkMonday
Submitted by @Crosheille (Founder/Curator and shared Admin role with @Marblely)

NeedleWorkMonday is a community of needle artists from all around the world that share our love and passion for the needle arts and any form of fiber art! We are a supportive group that encourages one another and supports each other’s work through upvotes, comments and positive feedback. We get together every week to share our work, ideas, tips, patterns, shortcuts and to inspire the Hive community. Our hopes are to encourage crafters to dust off their needles and get crafting again as well as encouraging others to give it a try for the first time.

Let’s Make a Collage (LMAC)
Submitted by @Shaka (Founder and shared community lead with @Agmoore, @Mballesteros & @Quantumg)

The LMAC is a fun collage contest on Hive where everyone can participate and win attractive HIVE prizes. Each week, a photo is made available as a template for all participants to create their collages from. At the end of each round, a community vote will decide how the prize pool is distributed among a jury selection of finalists. As a resource for all Hivers, the LMAC also maintains its own public domain image library — the LMAC Image Library (LIL). Everyone on Hive is invited to contribute their photos, images or artworks to the LIL and will be rewarded for doing so. Website, Discord

LaTaverne
Submitted by @Itharagaian (Founder)

LaTaverne est une communauté “synergique” principalement francophone où les participants sont conviés à grandir ensemble autours de l’ECU. L’un des buts principaux est de réunir le monde des Gamers (streamers) et celui des adeptes de la crypto (Hive). Tout post francophone peut être affiché sur la taverne. Discord

Invest-time’s Community Celebration Post

HomeEdders
Submitted by @Minismallholding (Founder and admin)

Community description: HomeEdders was the first time I took the leap into creating a community. We wanted somewhere for their who homeschool to connect, share experiences and offer ideas and moral support. It’s been a great resource since the lockdowns pushed many more parents into this role. We even have teachers who post in there now and give ideas to help children with their learning.

Stock Images
Submitted by @Minismallholding (Founder and admin, along with @Crosheille who stepped up to help me from the start.)

So many writers use stock images in their posts and we have a lot of talented photographers and artists on Hive, so it seemed to make sense to bring them together and keep everything in the Hive community. What I initially planned as just an informal meeting place for both sides to come together became a bit more formal and a lot of people were excited about it being more formal. It’s had a lot of support, however, we’ve also had to implement a lot more rules than a traditional community due to legal restrictions in many countries. Now we have a search feature, it’s a place where creators have the opportunity to make a brand for themselves.

HiveGarden
Submitted by @Minismallholding (Moderator)

HiveGarden was created by @Skylinebuds for gardening content and discussion on Hive. He been fairly relaxed and hands off with it, so when the Natural Medicine community disbanded, due to taking on too many aspects, @Riverflows approached him to see if he would be happy to have our involvement for the gardening side of things. Gardening is a passion of ours, so we wanted to see a community for that side of things continue and it is slowly growing with lots of passionate gardeners finding their way there.

What I Learned Today
Submitted by @Wwwiebe (Administrator, guidance, and the like)

A place to share the new things that are learned, no matter how large or small, that we learn on a daily basis by living.

Silver Bloggers
Submitted by @Lizelle (Founder & Admin)

A community for retired and aspirant retiree bloggers, seasoned and wannabe crypto hodlers. The Silver Bloggers’ community brings together young-at-heart kindred spirits and younger ‘old souls’. The golden threads, in addition to a love of blogging and photography, are a keenness to learn more about blockchain and crypto. We’re not digital natives, most of us were born before the PC was imagined; we ask “stoopid” questions. A compulsion to share our life experiences for storage on the blockchain for our children and children’s children. Musings and memories of lives lived — the happy and the sad, the long and the short. Planning for life beyond formal work, from leisure and travel to second (or third…) careers, hobbies that can supplement pensions and just what keeps “un” working people busy. From time to time, we will run challenges. To suggest and/or run a challenge, please tag one of the administrators or moderators with your idea.

STEMGeeks
Submitted by @Themarkymark (Creator)

Sharing and discussions about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math subjects.

Hive Punks
Submitted by @Themarkymark (Creator)

Talk about Hive Punks.

Crypto Shots
Submitted by @Cryptoshots.nft (Admin)

The alpha of our blockchain 3D game is launching this Sunday on the Wax blockchain. We are already storing our Discord game data into Hive. Our Discord game allows you to premine our new tokens even before they go live. We plan on integrating Hive NFTs and tokens next (it’s currently on our roadmap for the end of Q1).

The Chess Community
Submitted by @Samostically (Moderator)

A place for Chess players to post chess riddles, tournament reports, own games and anything relating to chess, created by @Jaki01.

Samostically’s Community Celebration Post

RU (Russian Hive)
Submitted by @Qwerrie (Mod, @Alexanderfluke — Founder)

Community was created to onboard & support Russian-speaking authors at Hive. Communication is restricted to the Russian language only.

FungiLovers
Submitted by @Qwerrie (Founder, mod)

There are a lot of Hiveans who share fascination to different aspects connected with fungi: visual, medical, culinary. the community is dedicated to fungi in all these aspects, and provides a place for communication, exchange of experience, help with identification, questions, and simply boasting with tropheys. FL is included in #OCD community incubation program and currently has 1500 subscribers.

INKWELL
Submitted by @Katleya (Story writer)

The Ink Well is a @curie curated community supporting short story writers on the Hive blockchain. The Ink Well is a short story community. Accepts short fiction stories, between 750–1000 words. Maximum 1500 words per story. It is based on creativity, quality of writing and the writer’s commitment to his/her community. It is prohibited to publish stories involving cruelty to women, children, animals or violence. For each published work, at least two stories must be read and commented on. It has a catalog of tips for fiction writing. Each week a challenge is generated. Only posts written in English. It has 154 active users. It has The Inkwell Magazine. A weekly magazine highlighting selected authors voted for by Curie.

DreemPort
Submitted by @Dreemsteem (Founder)

The DreemPort site encourages networking across multiple writing platforms. Members will drive new viewers to their favourite platform and be introduced to earning crypto while curating.
@dreemport is about new connections, genuine engagement and steady support — BUT, we also love this aspect of our project: You have a measurable rating given to you, based on your audience support! Why is that awesome? • Because it allows you to have a very tangible way of recognizing if you’re connecting with your audience. • It allows you to see if you are improving or slipping. • It challenges you to improve, and increase your score! How do I use DreemPort — it’s easy!, Discord

Psyber X
Submitted by @Dynamicrypto (Community Admin)

Psyber X is a game in development that is FPS (first person shooter) P2E (play to earn) MMO (massive multiplayer online) RPG (role playing game) & F2P (free to play). The game is fully funded & seeking to onboard gamers to HIVE blockchain, getting wallets set up and ready to play current HIVE games while growing a fan base for launch. We are running challenges and contests giving away 100’s of thousands of LVL token away with more much larger rewards coming for the community that assist in social challenges and writing/creativity contests while HIVE onboarding. Join the conversation in Discord chat. Join the AMA Feb 20th — ask anything in the #AMA channel as we line up questions.

1UP
Submitted by @Flauwy (Founder)

Blockchain gaming and NFT tribe on HIVE, with ONEUP as our token and 1up.zone as our frontend. We are very actively building our own community as well as inter-community relations. Discord

Cartel
Submitted by @Flauwy (Founder) and @Arkasz (Member/supporter)

We are a meta-guild, a community for communities. We are meta-gamers, gaming many blockchain games. We are a meta-token, a dividend token for dividend tokens. We are meta-curators, a curation service for all HIVE tribes. We are a meta-business, making money from the metaverse. And we are a meta-family, a family for families — your friendly Cartel. A crypto gaming focused community, part of the ONEUP tribe, but with a more narrow focus on bringing advantages to players, bloggers, investors of the crypto gaming community. Discord

PukuMundo
Submitted by @Nahupuku (Funder/Leader (and @Orimusic is the Community mod but we share the leadership cause we are a team))

We create contests and iniciatives about arts, music, literature and creative fusion posts. We support people from all the Hive platform too each week and we are from Venezuela, South America. I started with PukuMundo since 2017 with my educational discord room for new users and in PukuMundo we teach new users to make posts and respect the guides and rules of Hive. Discord, Linktree

LUV (and HBIT too)
Submitted by @Crrdlx (Creator)

LUV: to share love on the Hive blockchain. Hivebits (HBIT): to reward effort on the chain. Discord

Crrdlx’s Community Celebration Post

HiveCuba
Submitted by @Manuphotos (Lider)

A community created to help Cubans and Hispanic people through their way inside Hive.

HiveFood
Submitted by @Mariale07 (Owner and Administrator)

Hive Food is a community based on foodie content, where we receive people from all over the world with traditional recipes from their country, and we also support the Hispanic community, as it is the one that produces the most content on this topic. We also have an initiative called ArcFood (Arcoalimentos) where participants create recipes with specific colored ingredients. This community has grown a lot in the last few months and has great acceptance from the community.

Mariale07’s Community Celebration Post

Whisky/Whiskey
Submitted by @Steevc (Founder and drinker)

A place to talk about fine drinks. Currently fairly small, but looking to grow. We do not have a token and votes are not guaranteed, but it provides a place to find fellow drinkers. I feel that specialist communities can be more useful than general ones where posts can get lost in the flood. If centered around an interest then you can find the content you want without having to follow lots of people, who may have other interests that do not overlap. Cheers!

CineTV
Submitted by @Papacrusher (Project Manager)

We are a tribe for all levels of cinephiles with the core motto to “Incentivize your passion for Film”! We recently restructured and are working to grow the community on Hive and beyond! Our token is CINE and we would love to have everyone as part of our unique family! Discord

Papacrusher’s Community Celebration Post

dCrops
Submitted by @dCrops (Lead developer and admin)

dCrops is a P2E game on hive which is built around the theme of farming and farm management. It is fairly passive and rewards players with the native $CROP tokens as well as HIVE to play the game. Discord

Shadow Hunters Community
Submitted by @Seckorama (the moderator of Shadow Hunters Community)

Exploring the shadows and reflections that surround us.

The Pizza Guild
Submitted by @Thebeardflex (Creator / Director of Things)

Pizza Guild is a Hive-powered social group focused on creating awesome tools and opportunities for gamers, artists, musicians, and content creators. We’ve recently launched a community music album, a new token staking rewards program, and will be kickstarting a game scholarship program next Sunday! Discord

Game Development
Submitted by @Enjar (Admin)

A place for game developers to talk about and showcase all things regarding making a game. Many who are in the process of making their own game share dev logs and personal experiences about the process.

Real Estate Investors
Submitted by @Methodofmad (Methodofmad is the administrator and top cheerleader)

We are building a community of people that are interested in real estate investing. We provide marketing ideas, tips and videos in regard to real estate.

Full Deportes
Submitted by @Fermionico (Founder)

Our founder saw the enormous potential for Spanish-speaking sports content. In previous experiences he noticed that Hispanic sports posts were not supported by the curators. When Hive and the communities were born he had the opportunity, but the pandemic emptied the stadiums. In August 2020 the situation began to normalize and Full Deportes was born. Today we have over 1800 subscribers, over 160 active members, 850 member interactions and over $HTU 3,600 in pending rewards.

Veterans
Submitted by @Inthenow (Founder/Admin/Curator)

We are the Hive Veterans Community with Members from around the world, regardless of country origin. Our Veterans community is all about showing support for fellow Veterans. We are getting started again after a lengthy hiatus. If you are a Veteran feel free to join us. All are welcome. :) Discord

Campusgistars
Submitted by @Iconnellys (Community Leader)

Campusgistars is a community of students around the world especially for students in campuses who use hive around campuses. students report on happenings about their campuses and what goes on around them. topics such as relationships on campus, earning while learning in our Campus enterprise program and hopes to hold a general campus carnival in Nigeria later this year. we are quite new to hive, most of our members are still taking lessons about hive, our dream is to take hive to all campuses around the world starting from Nigeria. Discord

BEATZCHAIN
Submitted by @Polarmystro (founder (we all bosses))

A music community for all musicians on and off hive blockchain. We’re a community of cool individuals we also do things like assisting others to collaborate through our discord. We’re in the works for a awesome product for all musicians to use (coming soon)

Hive DIY

Gaboamc2393’s Community Celebration Post

Verify Your Brain (VYB)
Submitted by @Trostparadox (early-adopter of POB, instantiator of VYB, member of VYB admin team)

VYB and Verify Your Brain have been designed to complement POB and the Proof of Brain tribe, as a sort of ‘parallel universe’ … Verify Your Brain represents a potential solution to much of the divided energy and heated disagreements on Hive that seem to be reaching a crescendo of late. Verify Your Brain — Complete Freedom from Downvotes and Self-Votes. If you are psychologically tied to using downvotes or self-votes, then Verify Your Brain is not the place for you. Whitepaper “Maybe think of VYB as a spoon of POB rather than a fork.” Response to the question: “Is VYB a fork of POB?”

#THGaming
Submitted by @Jim-crypto (Founder)

#THGaming is a metaverse based play-to-earn guild run by gamers and community managers, currently exploring around 15 different play2earn games across 6 different blockchains. We recently minted the $THGaming Tribe token and community support has been incredible. Discord, Instagram, Twitter, Tribaldex

HiveBR

LeoFinance

Proof of Brain

Ghost.queen’s Community Celebration Post

Hive-Naija
Submitted by @Nonsowrites (Moderator/Admin)

Hiv-Naija is a community on the hive blockchain created by @Belemo about a year ago. The goal of the community/project is to create a safe space for Nigerians in the hive community to engage and share ideas. Also, we have been keen on improving the user retention on hive by providing relevant information for newbies (mainly from Nigeria) on hive the ecosystem. Currently, we have 217 members on our telegram channel (which is our most active platform), and 251 members on discord.

Foodies Bee Hive

We Are Alive Tribe

Amberkashif’ Community Celebration Post

Feathered Friends

Nelinoeva’ Community Celebration Post

Freewriters

Davidbright’ Community Celebration Post

National Podcast Post Month (#NaPodPoMo)
Submitted by @Epodcaster (NaPodPoMo Founder and Community Admin)

National Podcast Post Month is a 30-day podcasting challenge every November 1–30. 2022 will mark fifteen years of NaPodPoMo and year two of NaPodPoMo on Hive. For some, NaPodPoMo may be their first foray into podcasting. For existing podcasters, it is a chance to experiment. Perhaps try out new podcasting platforms, test new equipment, or start another show. There are no hard and fast rules of how to record/release episodes during the month. You can batch record, pre-record, go live daily, or catch up if you fall behind. Successfully win the challenge by publishing 30 podcast episodes between November 1st-30th.

Beer
Submitted by @Detlev (Founder)

This is a open minded community with people who loves BEER. It is as well the home the the steem #BeerSaturday and the #BEER token. There we celebrate the longest running challenge on hive called the #BeerSaturday. Since 243 weeks we motivate people to write about that topic with 3+ pictures and their unique story. It is about “The third most drunken liquid on earth”. 1500+ members.

Free Your Mind
Submitted by @Wesphilbin (Admin), @Stayten (Admin), and @Mondoshawan (Founder)

There is this urge in us to be free, to live our nature, to which liberty is fundamental. This liberty has been suppressed by kings, societies and idiots for thousands of years…. In this blog we are collecting as much information and stories as possible to “find” this liberty, to find freedom. Please feel free to add your own perspective and/or experience. But what should I free my mind from, you may ask! — Let’s start with all the limitations that have been imposed on us since we first saw the light of day.

Architecture + Design Community
Submitted by @Sahiba-rana (@Aplusd and @Storiesoferne (Creators))

Welcome to Architecture+Design! We are your dedicated Hive community publishing digital content about Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture Design, Urban Design, and Environmental Design.

Market Friday
Submitted by @Wesphilbin (@Dswigle (Founder/Admin))

I hope you will join us as we share different markets. It has been such a pleasure to see markets from all over the world. There is always a curiosity attached to foreign ingredients, different produce, or any product sold. Don’t forget to take photos wherever you happen to be shopping — wherever money is exchanged for a service or for merchandise. Don’t forget to use hive-196308 as your first tag!

Always A Flower
Submitted by @Wesphilbin (@Dswigle (Founder/Moderator))

Are you passionate about flowers? I am! A place to post your beauty! Your post can be anything. About flowers, about life, words describing them. Your passion is not limited to any subject. For me? Musing. Oh, yes. How I love to muse. To reflect. Ponder. Play with my words and make them mean something, sometimes straightforward and sometimes almost woven into the fabric to avoid detection. A diary of thoughts, dreams, life, and dreams yet to be dreamed. For you? The sky is the limit! Just remember! Always a flower!

About Hive

Hive is a decentralized information-sharing network with an accompanying blockchain-based financial ledger built on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocol. Hive supports many different types of information-sharing applications. A myriad of dapps, APIs, and front-ends contribute to the accessibility of data on the Hive blockchain. Hive is developed to store vast amounts of content and to make it easily available for time-based monetization. Examples of use cases include social media with monetized rewards for content producers, interactive games, identity management, polling systems, and micro-loans. The performance of the blockchain is designed to scale with widespread adoption of the currency and platforms in mind. By combining the lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions, Hive is positioned to become one of the leading blockchain technologies used by people worldwide. Learn more about Hive and sign up today a https://hive.io.

Biggest Web3 Social Media Blockchain: Hive Reflecting on 2021

Hive — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 02:26:12 GMT

It has been a challenging and a fantastic year for Hive. Looking back at 2021 we have overcome social, emotional, technical, and personal challenges. We’ve built strong relationships and taken major steps. We have done this together, as one decentralized ecosystem.

Hive is now over 2.3 million accounts strong
HIVE prices hit an all time high at $3.41 USD
The DHF pool reached 10.8 million HBD with over 79k HBD distributed daily
Twitter follower milestone of 30k reached
NFTs on Hive are surging forward
Many ecosystem dApp updates and additions
Another amazing HiveFest enjoyed by the ecosystem
Hive community members had a fulfilling year full of highlights!

Hive Charging Ahead

HIVE prices hit an all time high this year of $3.41 USD on November 26. While market trends naturally invite much speculation, the upward trend in price is an indication of strong investor confidence in the Hive ecosystem and its currency.

Equilibrium Reached

This summer we completed our latest major protocol update and successfully deployed it in Hard Fork (HF) 25. The update was dubbed ‘Equilibrium’ in honor of reaching a balance between capability, scaling and governance.

HBD Peg Stable

Hive-backed Dollars (HBD) are the feeless, trustless, US Dollar-pegged Hive stablecoin. This year with the help of several stabilization mechanisms we were able to maintain a fairly close peg with the USD, both through the expansion of on-chain conversion options and through layered tools. The ability to earn interest on HBD by simply moving it to the savings account was also added. Although the world has yet to see a truly versatile stablecoin, we are readily reaching for this goal.

Hive Decentralized Fund Growing

The Hive Decentralized Fund (DHF) has seen both amazing growth and an increase in utility over the year. We are now up to a total of $10.8 million HBD up for distribution with a daily budget of 108k HBD. Over $79k HBD is being distributed daily.

Communities Flourishing

Hive Communities saw monumental growth over the year. The LadiesOfHive community celebrated its 1st anniversary and launched its own token (LOH) in September. TheTerminal and HeyHaveYaMet projects both celebrated third anniversaries in December. The DreemPort project, focused on encouraging writers on Hive and building bridges between Hive and different publishing communities, was initiated in late June.

Most recently, the Gods Unchained community initiative was launched in December. It has onboarded nearly 1k new members and brought much excitement to the Hive ecosystem. It is the latest initiative alongside the ongoing onboarding program for quality content creators lead by the Original Content Decentralized (OCD) community. Related in scope is the Pizza Project which is a social group focused on building for Web3 and onboarding gamers and content creators to Hive. The project, launched in March, has grown to 7,500 token holders and 2,300 Discord members. Their first annual Hive Pizza Christmas album was just released.

New dApps Joined our Ecosystem

Several dApps have joined the Hive ecosystem in 2021. Let’s take a closer look at a few of them:

Inji

Inji, a new social media platform that aims to bridge Web3 and Web2 and leverages Hive for multiple features, has launched to much acclaim during HiveFest in November 2021. In the words of its founder, Timo: “Inji has been a passion project for the past 2 years. Finally launching it & seeing the Hive community starting to embrace inji, has been amazing. The feedback I’ve received so far has also been very valuable, but that’s simply the power of Hive. For 2022, my vision is to build the fundaments for inji to become one of the key players of social media platforms that are building on Web3, NFTs & the Metaverse.”

Liketu

Liketu has been in the works for longer than the existence of Hive. It’s launch is but the first milestone of many to come. Although still early in its roadmap, Liketu will attempt to cement itself in a product niche under-developed on Hive. They will be pushing for wider user adoption, among short form visual creators. We believe that Liketu will help foster a whole new cohort of users on Hive adding to the already diverse offerings and helping to further the network effects of social media on Web3.

It’s All About Streaming

Podping

Podping is a strategic infrastructure partnership between the Podcast Index and Hive. For the first time since the creation of RSS feeds and podcasting in the early 2000’s, there is now a global, decentralized notification system: Podping. Presently Podping sends out notifications of changes and updates when any one of 100’s of 1000’s of RSS Podcast feeds change. Simply by watching the Hive blockchain, any client can be notified of changes. Cross-platform “going live” notifications are coming in 2022. This is all made possible and simple by Hive’s no-fee and ultra fast blockchain updates.

Hive Live

HiveLive was launched in December and is a web-service made to show an animation (with sound) and a message on livestreams to boost audience engagement during live session. It is designed to allow streamers to receive donations in not only HIVE/HBD, but also HiveEngine tokens, and provides a very easy-to-use donation page in addition to its core service.

NFTs Taking Over

NFT Showroom

NFT Showroom is a marketplace specializing in digital art, MP4s and audio NFTs from over 1500 artists all personally welcomed and onboarded from around the world. It prides itself on affordable minting fees, and an incredibly flexible auction system. Since it’s inception over a year ago, artists on the platform have earned almost half a million HIVE totaling well over a million dollars USD, and sold over eleven thousand NFTs with 0 gas fees. NFT Showroom has recently acquired a dedicated space in the Cryptovoxels metaverse to hold events and create a more connected, social community and has attended HiveFest in AltspaceVR.

NFT Tunz

NFT Tunz was launched in the middle of Q4 2021 and the project has onboarded over 125 musicians, artists and music fans to date, including Number 1 chart-topping artist Sandi Thom. 2022 promises to be a huge year for music NFT’s and NFT Tunz plans to be at the forefront of this exciting time on the Hive blockchain.

Hive Punks

Hive Punks is a clone of the classic Crypto Punks series with fast free transactions on the Hive blockchain. Hive Punks has unique assets to create interesting Punks with actual names and professions. Hive Punks is a series of 10,000 NFTs which sold out in less than 36 hours and is supported by a secondary market. All Punks were randomly generated on-the-fly when minted backed by provably fair and verifiable algorithm supported with open source public repository.

DApp and Project Milestones

Numerous Hive-based dApps, tools and projects saw significant milestones reached in 2021. Some of these are:

Splinterlands

2021 was a breakout year for Splinterlands. It saw the release of guild brawls — allowing guilds to battle each other in weekly tournaments, the release of the Splintershards (SPS) governance token into the game which currently has over a $60M market cap, nearly 800k new Hive blockchain accounts created, and most recently the release of the largest new edition of cards to date — Chaos Legion! While 2021 has exceeded all expectations, 2022 is shaping up to blow it out of the water, and it is all powered by the Hive blockchain’s fast, feeless transactions and user-friendly wallets.

3Speak

This year the 3Speak team have helped to secure video-based free speech for all people using their desktop app, IPFS storage and Hive accounts layer. They have built the cross-chain SPK Network and a related Web3 tools layer with the aim to decentralize content on the internet, provide a rewards layer and run the needed infrastructure peer to peer. SPK Network progress is at about 35% since the build began in late September 2021.

DLUX

DLUX (Decentralized Limitless User Experiences) is Hive’s only metaverse platform with users actively posting things like this VR art gallery, and was updated in January to include 360° Photo Tours. This year also saw the introduction of generative NFTs that can be purchased then minted, similar to how card packs are purchased then opened. Finally, the DEX (decentralized exchange) was updated to support a multi-sig community wallet capable of partially filling orders, supporting a secondary Hive market for NFTs!

“The community is what makes a successful cryptocurrency project”. Going with that idea the Hivefolks NFT project creators came out with another addition to the DLux NFT family; an NFT project honoring the long-standing members of the Hive community with NFT characters made in their likeness.

Hive Engine

Hive Engine is an open source, community led, smart contracts development platform on Hive. It allows people to create their own fungible and non-fungible tokens. Users can take the tokens they build and place them into off the shelf community building front end websites. Participants benefit by being able to blog, participate in a DAO, stake liquidity in liquidity pools, buy and sell tokens on the markets, and build websites and games around off the shelf NFTs. Dozens of communities have been setup and over 2021 approximately $1 billion USD was transacted through the service.

Hive Keychain

Hive Keychain, a true Hive staple, is now used by over 100,000 users across browser extensions and mobile Apps. Hive Keychain is a wallet browser extension for the Hive blockchain and cryptocurrency and allows users to securely log into and access multiple Hive-based platforms.

Hive Community Highlights

Last week Hive community members challenged themselves to make posts to celebrate their individual 2021 highlights and wins. We’ve compiled them and are both humbled and proud to share them with you:

It’s been a terrific year for Hive and we are grateful to all of the community members, developers, builders, founders and investors for making it happen. Our commitment to decentralization is also our unity. Working together, we are excited to greet the new year and lay more bricks on the Web3 road.

About Hive

Hive is a decentralized information-sharing network with an accompanying blockchain-based financial ledger built on the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) protocol. Hive supports many different types of information-sharing applications. A myriad of dapps, APIs, and front-ends contribute to the accessibility of data on the Hive blockchain. Hive is developed to store vast amounts of content and to make it easily available for time-based monetization. Examples of use cases include social media with monetized rewards for content producers, interactive games, identity management, polling systems, and micro-loans. The performance of the blockchain is designed to scale with widespread adoption of the currency and platforms in mind. By combining the lightning-fast processing times and fee-less transactions, Hive is positioned to become one of the leading blockchain technologies used by people worldwide. Learn more about Hive and sign up today a https://hive.io.

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Hive Hardfork 25 “Equilibrium” on June 30th

Hive — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 23:40:41 GMT

Equilibrium is a state of balance between multiple forces. In the case of the Hive blockchain network, the guiding mission from day one has been to create an ecosystem that allows anyone to become a part of our decentralized network, contribute to governance, and to own their data, connections, tokens and actions.

This hardfork continues to empower people to use Hive the way they want and takes another few large steps forward in creating an ecosystem with better balanced rules and tools for building whatever we can dream up.

Reaching equilibrium is finding a state of balance and readiness. It is the essential preparation for big moves, exciting changes, and sustained growth.

A quick summary of Equilibrium:

Below is a list of the consensus changes that are being made as part of this hardfork:

Changes to curation window and curation rewards calculation

The most important aspect of this change is that the 5 minute reverse auction is going away, so there is no punishment for voting early. This will finally put manual voters on an equal footing with automated voters when it comes to competing for curation rewards.
In addition, anyone voting in the first 24 hours will be rewarded based solely on their Hive Power and vote weight, and the reward curve applied from 24 hours to the end of the voting window will be much softer.

New operation and API to convert HIVE to HBD

HBD (Hive-backed Dollars) is intended to be a feeless, trustless, USD-pegged stablecoin. This new operation will stabilize the price pegging of HBD, allowing it to achieve its full potential as a frictionless medium of exchange for digital commerce.
While HBD to HIVE conversions were always in existence, this new operation will allow conversions in the opposite direction (HIVE to HBD).
Previously, HBD was only effectively price-pegged on the low side of USD pricing. This new conversion will create an equilibrium point where HBD will be pegged on both the low side AND the high side.

Interest only paid on HBD held in savings account

Moving HBD into the savings account (3 day withdrawal waiting period) to earn the stakeholder interest on it just for holding!

New operation and API to enable recurring payments

These are periodic transfers which are scheduled to happen automatically. They are intended for managing subscription payments, etc.

Witness and proposal votes by an account expire after one year if the account stops actively making governance-related votes

This change was made to ensure that old votes from dormant accounts don’t unduly impact governance decisions for Hive. It will enable Hive to find a new balance between incumbent block producers and new competitors for those positions.

Proposal creators can change the end date of their Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) proposals

This allows a proposal creator to reduce their funding request (by decreasing the number of payments they receive) without having to create a new proposal.

Re-allow vote operation for already paid posts

Voting outside the rewards window should still be something users can do, to show appreciation for the content they like and to add to their curated feed. This is a quality of life change that does not impact anything to do with allocation of rewards.

There are also new command-line options, a numerous bug fixes and performance optimizations, a new API call, and many other improvements to the code and documentation that the Hive blockchain relies on. Full details are available in the release notes.

You may also read more in our latest interview with The Capital.

As always, we can be found at https://hive.io.