Why I am Pro Hives But NOT Powering Down My Steem!
I love the idea of hives. I love it so much, that I had two projects ready to launch and am sitting on them, waiting for the hive to open up and let them be "hive exclusive" projects.
It is great to sit on projects a little bit. I have posts that are batched and ready for a quick edit before posting, and I have Pinterest friendly graphics too, so I can grow my Pinterest Audience with them, and perhaps turn some of my Pinterest Pals into Worker Bees.
Still, I am not powering down to move to hives
I did hit the power down button as soon as I heard the news, and then I promptly stopped it anyway. Here is why.
I am a long term investor
When I started on STEEM a few years back, it was because I wanted to turn my writing hobby into a retirement account. That means that I want wealth in the form of crypto, and I am willing to wait YEARS for it.
I haven't been taking my earnings and selling them for bitcoin, or litecoin, or any other coin, because I wanted to build a strong base here, on STEEM first.
I am more than 60% to a dolphin status, where I can create new accounts, onboard friends, and curate for an income. I am not giving that up.
Hives is not making me choose
My stake is transferring over to HIVES.
I could take a gamble, and dump for hives only.
I could help everyone give Sun the finger.
But I also could keep what I have already built, and then build something new on hives.
I don't think STEEM is going to die
When you spend your STEEM time on steemleo, and on discord in channels like @spinvest, you start to think that everyone on the blockchain is Coin Savvy.
Everyone is not.
Many of our writers, are simple writers, and all they want is a writing platform. They don't care where they keep their online diary, they just care that it exists. And, if SUN still has millions of steem tokens, and is buying more as rumored, than he will probably keep the nodes going, which means that there will still be somewhere to write.
Also, some are willing to stay behind and FIGHT for the STEEM Blockchain.
And maybe they will win!
STEEM May live a slow and painful death
But the learning curve is soooooo high.
If I am to be a long term crypto investor who puts money into blockchains I have to know about stuff like
Ninja Mines
Governance
Intricacies of how a blockchain works
What I think decentralization is vs what the crypto world sees as decentralization
I have learned more in this past month than I had my whole time here on crypto.
I would pay the value of my STEEM account (prior to the short term moon we are living) for such education.
All projects are not moving
Whether it be because they do not know HOW or because they don't know when, or because they are sticking to steem. Everyone is not moving, at least right away.
I diversified within the STEEM blockchain and believe in the projects I diversified to. I will not be abandoning them, I will be moving with them or staying with them.
Marlians, Neoxian, Palnet, Dblog.
When will Hives have an engine for them? Until then, the projects as we know them are on steem.
What I will NOT be doing
Double posting.
I already don't look forward to those who will want to post on hives AND on the STEEM Blockchain.
If I do have a similar post, it will most definitely be edited to go with whatever blockchain I am posting on.
You wouldn't post on Quora AND on Medium, so don't do that on these blockchains.
That will make both chains weaker, and if you want both, then work on both.
Curiosity
What is going to happen to the value of my accounts if many are powering down and leaving? Sure, the value will dump, but what does that do for my rankings?
And yes, I WOULD buy STEEM if it went down to $0.02.
Because, well, why NOT? Dolphin status for $50 USD. I will most def skip a trip to the movies (which are closed down anyway) for that.
Silly, I KNOW
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Of course I would. I cross post almost everything I write.
Well that’s interesting.
It’s a form of plagiarism, even if you did write and own the content. A blurb at the beginning saying it has been previously published would make a huge difference.
You’re “supposed” to let your readers know that it has been previously published before and where and when.
However I see how there “writing rules” are more suggestions than anything else and how in crypto blogging with no real governance law wise makes almost anything go.
Original content...
I see lots of forms of plagiarism here and used to worry about them a lot more. Now I just see them as what they are, part of the package.
Cross posting is just lazy though, there’s a difference between creating a post and marketing it, and going from publication to publication trying to get attention for your post. Each platform has its own user base and tailoring your content to them would be more respectful of the readers time.
If you would cross post to medium and Quora and steem, than I guess hives is game too - and who’s to stop you. No one.
To each it’s own, that was just perspective from an American English Teacher who realizes rules and etiquete are fluid.
I can't expect everyone to have accounts on every platform.
That's precisely why I cross post. If I make a posting about say Ruby programming I cross post it into Ruby communities in various platforms to maximise the amount of Ruby users becoming aware of the article.
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