The News

Do not assume my titles mean anything as it may just be whatever pops into my head before I write the post.

There has been more price action this week. $HIVE continues to steadily climb whilst 'the other coin' has more radical moves that soon reverse. I am all in on Hive that offers all I need.

@stoodkev who brought us Hive Keychain is working on [multisig[(@stoodkev/hive-multisig-continuation-proposal) that will allow for all sorts of possibilities. Sometimes you need several people to authorise something.

Part of the battle for Hive to become accepted is to overcome scepticism about crypto in general. Reports like this one concentrate on the failures and scams. We need people to hear about the good Hive does.

Friday Follows

• @hivetrending is still working on connecting Hive to the Fediverse. This is important as a lot of people who left some of the corporate platforms are using things like Mastodon instead and we want them to be able to see our content. Hive should not be a silo.
• The @town-hall get-togethers have great potential to encourage collaboration between projects. I was reading the transcript of the latest one on the train this week. I have met a few of the people involved.
• I have mentioned @lordbutterfly before, but then he is doing good work with the Hive documentary, but then he is also involved with the rally car. They have a video on YouTube that could do with more likes and you can subscribe to their feed.

Events

• @buzzparty are doing great work on supporting meetups around the world. They are organising one in Germany next year. I could be tempted to attend that.
• @alessandrawhite is over in the UK this month and is looking to meet some Hivers in London. That could be very possible for me.

The Doghouse

This may not be a instance of abuse, but it is a case of someone taking the wrong approach on Hive. @keys-defender are always looking for attempts to compromise accounts. In this case people had wallet memos about a survey that required login with Keychain. In general that is fairly safe as you have to confirm each transaction, but you should always be wary.

The account doing this ought to have at least done some posts about what they were doing. If an account has the default reputation (25) then it does not inspire confidence. If they post and are found to be nefarious then that reputation would soon sink.

I do not often look to see if I have any memos. I just did a check and there is nothing apart from what I would expect in the last couple of weeks.

Currently it is quite cheap to send spam on Hive. A memo only needs 0.001 $HIVE and you can send a fair few comments if you have a little HP. That may change as Hive grows. I believe the cost of transactions would go up if the system load got high and more expensive $HIVE could make memos less viable for those purposes.

You should always be wary of logging into sites you do not know well, especially if they want your actual keys. If someone gets your active key they can do transfers and with your master key they have full control of your account, including locking you out.

Practice safe hex.

The End

I am off to Barcamp London tomorrow. I am not sure if any other Hivers are going, but ticket sales closed last week. It is not a crypto event, but I would expect there to be a wide range of interests. I may take along some Hive merchandise and will talk to a few people.

Each of us can do something to market Hive. The first barrier is in raising awareness. If you mention it outside the Hive ecosphere then it can help.

Hive five!

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