I'm @yayogerardo

Sounds good although I would def add BTC to a gold/ICP bag. 
Super risky not to have BTC in any bag honestly. 
The entire institutional world is adopting it right now.
But yeah I'm sure you'll be fine. 

Good Input

A 51% attack is when a ***malicious*** actor controls 51% of the network or more. 
In most contexts it's a situation in which this person is double-spending coin and stealing. 

Again, there is a very good reason why "another tube" does not exist.
It's because making another tube is not worth doing.
Because claims of centralization and corruption are in fact wildly exaggerated. 

Anyone in the world can become a Hive whale at these prices.
There is no shortage of liquidity especially with futures markets in play.
The bridge remains thoroughly unburned. 

But maybe you have a good example of a crypto network that's has a better track record than Hive.
For example: 1% of the Bitcoin wallets own 90% of the supply. 
Is this a good target to shoot for? 

If you want to claim that Hive is centralized then perhaps you could provide a target in which it is no longer centralized.
Or point to a single other network in this space that's doing a better job. 

I'm not a huge fan of vote trails, up or down, because I support manual curation or HP delegation as better methods. However, downvotes abuse with trails of people unintentionally zeroing someone seem.especially egregious. That said, I write what I want, plain and simple.

SWAP.BLURT : SWAP.BTC

https://beeswap.dcity.io/pools/add?pool=SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.BTC




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so be it, let it burn down then. if the network cannot survive the voluntary act of people leaving it would only be further proof that the whole system was kept alive through subsidies and propaganda only.
i may be wrong but it seems to me you act as if hive is the only place and option we will ever have, which I used to believe to some extent, but now realize is just a typical justification to keep things stale and stagnant by binding the energy of those who want a better system here where the BS keeps on happening.

as I eluded to in the other reply: an overriding downvote function cancelling a multitude of other people's voices and curation rewards through a single large stakeholder is NOT a decentralized self-regulation mechanism. These downvotes make it apparent that they are not about an educational discourse for everybody top learn from, but a power grab and maintaining that power by those so early they might as well have been part of the planning team from the beginning.

I liked this place because I have some dear friends on here, most of which have been terrorized out for sharing their views over the years, and I miss them. Just like FB this is not a place I want to build on. I stay here because I yet have some friends on here whose work I cherish and who I like to have a connection to, and because thus far I could speak sort of openly without being nuked - partly because I minced my words which I feel ashamed about. 

I also felt it important to bring up this tired old topic again we are all discussing here to give others the choice to better reflect on what they want to do. Had I had all this knowledge last year I would have never put any capital into hive at 15 cents.

I may also come back and become hive maximalist if things do change but I am no longer waiting for the cartel's power to melt, I long for a new and better playing field which is where my energy will go. Still looking for the best case against Blurt also, I am under no illusion that everything is just perfect there. But a lot of things are way more in line with what I hoped Hive to be(come).

We may just need a NEW dancefloor entirely.

I am also aware of the negative effect of perpetually splintering a once large and interesting community over more and more networks. That's why I really like what @agorise at blurt.media does, finding a way to unite different communities from different blockchains rather than subsidizing this overly tribal mentality of "THIS ONE PLACE IS THE BEST".

After all, we want to facilitate more interesting and enlightening communication between people who choose to engage in that communication, ideally between different networks. 

Your argument reminds me of those people saying I have to go vote for the "alternative", trying to argue that if I don't go vote at all then the really bad players will get even more power and the only way to take the power back is to increase our involvement in their slave system. That is just plain wrong and exactly the reason the system keeps committing its crimes - people policing each other due to one of the prevailing myths of our age - namely to coerce each other to stay in a rigged game hoping its rules and mechanics would somehow change from the inside.

Things are seemingly more quiet than they were, but all it really takes to ramp up the censorship on this platform again is a concerted effort by the cartel with the majority of the stake once they get their marching orders for the next false-flag, "pandemic" or whatever else the gang has prepared. 

I'd prefer to already be in a place that is actually prepared to defend people's voices when shit hits the fan again. And it will hit the fan rather sooner than later.

Leo will likely fork away and get to Blurt, like Blurt.Media did.  It just makes better sense for real adoptors and Investors.  The DV economics are all about total central ownership of the cryptocurrency... so yes, hive is a criminal enterprise on paper for any legitimate businessperson.  It won't take long for Leo financial analysts to finger this out and move most operations to BLURT while likely keeping things going on hive-Engine, which is even more centralized but works correctly for the Leo Token.

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The same goes for PeakD... they should offer a Blurt frontend... SOON!
:frank

thank you for sharing your view on blurt and its tokenomics.

i have come to the conclusion recently that i would much prefer a system where spammers sometimes get a reward, than a system where good intentioned hard effort bloggers get punished for sharing their unpopular criticism of a topic, under the guise of fighting "abuse" or even "misinformation".

it should be up to each individual user to decide where his votes go - and noone else - and the moment we start to delegate power to a police unit of sorts, the system is provably liable to be abused and thought-policed. like any other system we grew up in.

i hate to conjure up the cheesy notion but:

 "i may not agree with what you say but i will forever fight for your right to say it."

Right. I think things could be better in many fronts, the ideal or rather end state of a sustainable architecture isn't built yet. But we may get there soon with more iterations.

Same here too, maybe covert some to HBD when market pumps higher later this year but definitely not fiat lol.

You're most welcome :) 

You're welcome, good to hear from you :) 

>"...your blurt blog seems empty..."

It is empty.  I have elsewhere discussed the issues with the principals of Blurt that have enabled it to exist through dint of their hard work and investment.  My observations during those conversations are derived from their comments, and repeating my understanding here would make my comments hearsay, which isn't a sound basis for analysis - and I would have no evidence to present other than the confirmation of them I would be maligning, which I will not expect.

I will only state that just as the opinion of one person, Sun Yuchen, controls all the witnesses, and therefore the code Steem runs that controls everything on that platform, Blurt has been utterly the possession of a scant handful of investors that have been able to do anything a consensus of witnesses could do, completely controlling the code and everything it does on Blurt.  In such circumstance every word is spoken by their leave.  On Hive this requires ~17 witnesses to achieve, and as we observe they are able to manage to agree to finely control whom is rewarded and what for, so that management is even simpler on Blurt, as, unless Sun is a schizophrenic, is unilaterally managed on Steem. 

>"...living in constant fear of being flagged to oblivion..."

I am in constant danger, IRL.  We all are.  Having once lived through the destruction of everything I held dear and coming out the back end, I am not as impressed by my fear as I once was.  I have had to chase down an ambulance on foot and beat on the sides until they let me in while I was having a heart attack, which demonstrated to me my survival IRL, and on Hive, is a gift, not my achievement.  In discussion with HW principals I have detailed my understanding, as I have here, as tactfully as possible, obviously, but neither dissembling.  I don't know why they select the particular targets they do and not others.  I'm not privy to their councils.  I suspect my immunity to financial fear set a bad example when BernieSanders flagged me for a few months (rather, that provided me a bully pulpit that brought attention to the issue), and after that account went dormant repeating that example hasn't been desirable.  Indeed, I hope I have provided perspective on the value of Hive that enables better understanding to all concerned, and Hive's potential to fundamentally empower sovereignty far more profitable to profiteers than mere money.  I know their understanding rests on fundamental principles difficult to surpass.  Cash is king.  But freedom makes kings of us all, and this is more valuable than obeisance to any king could be.

I am presently clearing land for siting a lab that I intend to use to demonstrate how creating real wealth instead of money will prove vastly more valuable, and I always hope reason will overcome habit, understanding prove superior to dogma.  I intend to demonstrate the power of sovereigns to wield cutting edge means of production to render dependence on centralization a profligate expense that profiteers intent on their own wealth would be stupid to continue to waste their fortunes on.  Hive managed in order facilitate such civil society will be far more benefit to those with the most to lose by it's reduction to an AI driven token accumulation game.  Oligarchs are people and have superior values to money, just as much as the rest of us, only psychopaths incapable of functional socialization cannot appreciate.

>"it's not so much a rage quit as it is a way to act according to what i perceive and what i feel is right. as i said i will keep posting on hive..."

A lot of people have made similar posts, and this created the rage quitting meme, which is a cheap shot all too easy to throw around.  People don't generally rage for no reason, anger being the child of fear, and everyone that did had similar cause.  I see that your susceptibility to such fear is reduced by your deep understanding of the underlying forces that have affected civilization from of old, and I will be pleased to be availed of your future posts regarding your superlative research and discussion of these matters.

>"Why the fuck wait..."

I see by the reference to the chats we have had on Matrix that you are one of the people that have dedicated hard work and investment to enable Blurt to exist.  I do not at all denigrate or deprecate that worthy cause.  However, I do refute your mischaracterization of Blurt and myself, which I suppose I demonstrate are inaccurate by my comment above, provided before I saw this.

Blurt is no less dependent on the leave of the owners of the physical structure of the internet than any communications.  I do not expect that physical infrastructure to be extant, certainly not available to plebs, in 20 years.  For free speech to be available to sovereigns, we will have to provide the infrastructure ourselves we opine and take each others' counsel on.  All transactions, communications, and information today depends on the permission of BlackRock, which possesses a controlling interest in ~90% of stock corporations in the world, including those that own the satellites, radio stations, and cables on which our communications are dependent.  DV's are a trivial distraction from our exigency, and I am not distracted.

I am not waiting for that network we own to be developed, but am taking advantage of that leave we are granted today to demonstrate with my shovel and feet in real dirt, on the actual Earth, our ability to ourselves produce the blessings of civilization far more profitably than remaining dependent on overlords.  I hope you grasp your exigency and act to secure what you have built with your hard work and investment before it is taken from you by those to whom such is a trivial facility.  I am not your enemy, and criticism is not harm to anyone intent on reality, who will learn from criticism to abandon misunderstanding and gain a clearer view.

I fully desire your prosperity, but you will fall if you do not secure your investment by yourself producing it's necessary foundation, and that will stand on actual dirt, on the actual Earth, and not code running on someone else's network.  Take your own advice and come down to Earth, my friend.

Edit:

>"...wait like 20 years until Marky "maybe" loses interest..."

I am not waiting for anything.  I intend to demonstrate to Marky, and all people invested in anything dependent on communications (which is everything that can be invested in), that he values things far more than he does money and amongst those values is free speech.  Here's the last thing he said to me, just a few days ago:

>"I agree with your sentiment..."

We will better succeed if we hang together, and if we don't we will all surely hang separately, to mangle Ben Franklin's astute aphorism.

Ja ich kann die Demotivation Ja in großen Teilen verstehen.
Bin ja auch selbst aktuell ziemlich inaktiv, einfach keine Lust mehr gegen ignorante Wände zu sprechen..

Liegt halt allgemein an der Art der moderne kindlich traumatisierten Kindern, sowie allgemein aktuell am Zustand des ausgebluteten Altcoin Crypto Bereichs.. bin auch schon länger wohl was man Bitcoin Maxi schimpft.. nur jedoch mit allen Kryptographischen Techniken die es so gibt (gibt ja nicht nur Coins lol)

Kann halt trotzdem nur nicht nachvollziehen wie man/ ihr euch selbst beschneiden wollt indem ihr euch die Möglichkeit zur Selbstregulierung des Hive Ökosystems (Downvotes) wegnehmen lassen wollt.. bzw dann nutzt halt einfach keine Downvotes? Anstatt dass es dann niemand mehr kann.
Ich habe mit Einigen anderen  vor Jahren täglich Stunden und über 50% meiner Voting Power dem Kampf gegen Scam, Spam, etc gewidmet.
Ohne echte Belohnung, ein Kampf gegen Windmühle, vor allem wenn ihr uns das dann nur verunmöglicht sodass diese Plattform hier bei den Scammern und Spammern aus dem Internet noch schneller ausblutet.

Ich downvote mit meiner eigenen HP, nach dem Konsens der Chain -> falsch und undankbare Zeitverschwendung
Ich mache jetzt seit Monaten fast nichts mehr -> auch falsch, wir brauchen wieder mehr Aktivität, dabei wurde ich zuvor Jahrelang nur ignoriert.

Lösung soll nun sein den grundlegenden Mechanismus der dezentralen Selbstregulierung selbst abzuschaffen -> damit alles erst Recht in Chaos ausbricht? Oder man erst Recht zentralen Moderatoren Ersatz braucht? Wie die allgemein gehassten Hivewatchers? (Auch nur entstanden da Leuten wie mir vor Jahren nicht geholfen wurde und wir paar einzelnen nicht mit all dem Scam und Spam alleine klar kommen konnten, während ihr der Rest nur fokussiert auf Rewards gewesen seid?)

Und nun noch die letzte Logik die ich nicht verstehe.. sich beschweren über "die Großen" ohne welche ihr hier nicht mal Teil sein konntet und dies lösen indem ihr Downpowert?

Wie wäre es mit Stake aufbauen? Oder wie denkst du willst du erreichen etwas zu ändern?
Indem man seine HP noch mehr den Großen in den Rachen schmeißt?

Aber ich bin es eh leid es auch nur zu versuchen es zu erklären.
Es ist halt auch seit Jahren einfach nur das langweilige Selbe.
Und jedesmal geht es nicht um das Thema selbst, die Mechanismen. Sondern einfach nur um persönliche Enttäuschung.

Keine Ahnung was du erwartet hast..
Ich sehe das Problem nicht in den Downvotes. Problematischer sehe ich nun immer wieder die Versuche Downvotes abzuschaffen und somit Hive endgültig zu opfern, sowie dass eben alle einfach nur enttäuscht aufhören, fliehen. Ohne Nutzer ist das hier eh sinnlos.
Aber das liegt auch nicht daran dass alle nur durch Downvotes vertrieben werden.

Ich beispielsweise wurde damals von berniesanders über ein halbes Jahr auf 0 geflaggt.
Später sogar noch von der deutsch Community.
Und zwischendrin noch von allen möglichen anderen.

Das ist doch das besondere an dem Ort hier.. aber alle wollen nur Circle Jerk, sich gegenseitig Bestätigung, die Fake offensichtliche Harmonien, anstatt der Versteckten (Heraklit) dass hier jeder Posten kann und man nichts aus der Wallet klauen kann reicht wohl nicht.
Der Reward Mechanismus auch nicht verstanden, dass die Rewards einem erst gehören nachdem sie ausgezahlt wurden.
War doch alles von Anfang an klar.

Aber geht eben nicht um die Mechanismen, sondern die persönliche Enttäuschtheit.

Und da wundert mich eh nichts mehr.  Wenn ich in meinem Blog zurück schaue wie ich lächerlich gemacht wurde bei meiner Enttäuschung bezüglich echt krassen Dingen..
Dies aber scheinbar niemand juckt, alle dann aber ultra rumheulen (vor allem halt Deutsche, bei Amis ist es ja normal und gehört zum guten Ton) wenn sie mal "beleidigt werden" - was vom Empfänger abhängt wovon er sich beleidigt fühlt und auch noch tausend Mal besser ist anstatt es aufzustauen und den gewalttätigen Bürgerkrieg zu wählen, erst danach die Streitkultur anstatt zuvor um es gar nicht so aufstehen und eskalieren zu lassen..
Aber genau deswegen liebe ich es wieder, denn während jetzt Deutschland quasi bereits im Bürgerkrieg ist (Leute stechen sich auf offener Straße ab!) Wollen es manche immer noch nicht wahrhaben.. dabei sind schon deren Kommentare auf meine Posts von vor wenigen Jahren super gealtert. 
Das tolle an Hive: alles unwiderruflich gespeichert. Das geht übers Ego hinaus.
Das realisieren aktuell auch Einige und üben sich in Selbstzensur. Auch keine Lösung.

Wie wäre es mit Verantwortungsübernahme und Reflektion?
Vielleicht war die Hive Blockchain ein zu freiheitliches Experiment?
Freiheit heißt Verantwortung und nicht Hive opfern, den Scammern und Spammern ausliefern, nur weil ihr keine Downvotes nutzen und sogar noch weiter: den einzigen Selbstregulierungsmechanismus ALLEN VERBIETEN wollt?


Aber ich habe genau diese Themen versucht zu bearbeiten. Mich daran abgearbeitet. Alle waren nur in ihren persönlichen Bestrafungsmodus (erst ohne Downvotes, dann sogar mit, obwohl diese doch böse sind und abgeschafft gehören? Also nach der Logik muss ich aus deren Sicht ja das ultimative Böse gewesen sein, wenn selbst sie zu bösen Downvotes griffen - oder Downvotes sind gar nicht böse und sie haben mir durch ihr Handeln zugestimmt, ich die Downvotes akzeptiert)

Habe daran auch gelernt, dass ich nur ein Mensch bin und genau so an die Gemeinschaft (Zwischen Gruppenzwang und Einsamkeit) gebunden bin. Bzw warum die Gemeinschaft und ihr Weltbild (leider auch von Psychopathen manipuliert) so mächtig ist.

Und gerade jetzt, wo nun auch endlich das wissenschaftliche dogmatische Narrativ aufbricht.. habe ich eigentlich mit allem losgelassen.

Mein Leben ist zu kurz um andere von ihren Irrwegen zu helfen und dafür die negativen Auswirkungen und den Hass zu ernten.
Ich muss mich auf meinen eigenen Weg konzentrieren.

Hive hätte ich auch schon lange in Bitcoin wechseln sollen, vor allem als ich noch damals wortwörtlich obdachlos ums Überleben gekämpft hatte..
Und behalte sie jetzt nur noch weil ich den Weg mit Hive schon so weit gegangen bin und denke es könnte in Zukunft (aus der Not) noch hilfreich werden frei zu kommunizieren, sobald das Internet erstmal fertig industrialisiert wurde.
Also finde ich die aktuelle Infrastruktur (Hive) gut genug. Doch scheinbar muss alles erst noch schlimmer werden, bis die Möglichkeit auf Hive mal wert geschätzt wird? Erst wenn man sonst nirgends mehr frei schreiben KANN - wird Hive abseits von der Gier nach Rewards wertgeschätzt.
So wie immer, es muss noch schlimmer werden.


Nichts für Ungut und alle besten Grüße aus dem Kaukasus!
Jan