BRIEF PEEK INTO HIVE HISTORY!

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Few days ago, i read an article about the Hive system and i got curious. The information i stumbled across fueled my appetite for more and i began to google, research and ask a lot of questions.

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I would explain this the simplest way i can. Hive isn't the only HIVE in the world. There are various other organizations with the name Hive.

A very brief history is that HIVE was formally known as STEEMIT. Major old timers can attest to this.

Where i got confused or let's say crazy was when i saw something linking the Hive we know to a mining organization in Canada. The source said something about a controversy over the name HIVE between said company and our HIVE. This is what got my attention and i decided to look into it further and asked other big leagues who gave me a different story.

This Hive is a blockchain ecosystem linking various apps and communities together while the other is just a mining organization.

I figured, maybe the mining org. didn't like that STEEMIT is using their name but then more research showed that nothing like that actually happened. I'd like to show you the different responses i got to my questions.

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I read that Hive is a blockchain company and Steemit borrowed their name?

I don't think so. Never knew Hive was a blockchain company.

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Hive was once called Steemit?

Yes. Hive was forked from STEEM.

I read that there is a company called Hive Blockchain company. How true is this?

There is but it is not connected to Hive. It is a Bitcoin mining company in Canada.

Okay. I got a bit confused when i read about some kind of controversy over the name when Steemit adopted the HIVE name?

Steemit is still Steemit. It didn't stop existing. The other isn't a Block Chain.

I'm glad i took my time to research and ask questions before jumping into conclusions.

Something interesting y'all need to know (especially newbies).

Conversing with these seniors opened my eyes a lot. We really are fortunate to meet Hive at this point because it wasn't always like this.

I found out that they hardly even were able to get $0.02 on a post, talk more of seeing $1. They had to engage in contest and do other sort of things to see such payout.

...we fingerlings were not getting upvotes, we paid bots for that and had to engage in contests to see atleast $0.02...today, we are making at least $1 for every useless post.

That part got me laughing. It's sad though if you think about it. That's why as a newbie or whatever, you need to remember that these ones hardly came across the money till some really innovative people came and made it a really Decentralized place.

So like they say "half bread is better than none", don't give up so easily and keep working your way to the top.

As for those who have people who guide them through, learn to show gratitude and appreciation cause...

I had no mentor when i started...in 2017. I didn't even know i had to put tags and write something reasonable. I didn't even love writing but for the sake of the money.

Don't try to compete with those who raised you, remember this. And whatever happens, try to remember who helped you. Most never even had anyone to put them through.

When i look at it, i am indeed lucky and so are you.

Special thanks to @dwixer and @belemo



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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!

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I joined steemit almost 4 years ago.. It was harder and quite not enough curators, Hive is a more beautiful place for creativity Nd contents.
I only managed to climb from 25 to 46 through Open source project rewards from Utopian and from our small chess community then. Thanks for sharing, took me down memory lane.

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Thanks for sharing too. Now we Newbies know more...

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I found out that they hardly even were able to get $0.02 on a post, talk more of seeing $1.

This took me back to when I was posting on steemit in 2018. The pay was extremely small, I gave up and left. Came back 3 years as Hive and Hive showed me all the possibilities.

Nice post you have here. I wish other newbies can see this and learn something from it

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I really like this post that you just did, it is very interesting when you start to investigate the historical Hive, you realize how lucky we are to arrive at this time, I personally thank this system and the benefits it has given me, When I started I had support to a certain point, after this I had to investigate a lot to gradually understand about this incredible system, today I try to help many people, however many times they do not appreciate it, we must reflect on that . I really liked reading your post, thank you very much for this historical reading.

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Ahhhhhh.... I'm so blushing right now... Thanks so much for the appreciation. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Steemit is F**king hard, a friend who joined in. 2018 told me about it, I didn't know I tried but i last day. They are stingy with their pay.

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Lol. I see. Omoh... Sotey you use "stingy". I off... 🤣

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No wonder..
I was on steemit then and really got discouraged..I m still at 30
I still can view my posts back then.. Lol. Very funny When ever I look at it and I m grateful I have teachers and mentors to guide.

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Mehn, I wonder how it actually felt like on the Hive back then. Things are a lot easier now on the Hive. It easier to get higher ratings and also earn more tokens.

It's good to ask questions, especially where they're people to give answers to these questions.

Thanks for sharing!!

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