BlogHide Reblurtscandy49 in # hive • 2 days ago • 1 min readOf the top 20 Hive witnesses, 8 are powering down...... even though the price is just 10 cents. See the following screenshot: It comes from the following website: The ones with the black piggy bank icons are powering down. If you click…candy49 in # hive • 6 days ago • 1 min readHive did another fork - rewards will be lowerHive put through another hard fork on 19th Nov, which wasn't much discussed. The few articles before the fork referred to the change in curation strength: your vote does not drop each time you…candy49 in # hive • 16 days ago • 1 min readThe markymark has been selling hiveHere is the table of hive whales: source: I make that 470,356 hive sold off since last year. While continuing to blame redfish for selling their earnings on their 15 cent posts for hive's…candy49 in # hive • 2 months ago • 1 min readThe "We Are Alive" community got attacked on HiveAnother month, another community gets attacked on Hive. The current target is the "We Are Alive" community. You can read about it here: They've made a back-up community on Blurt: And here…candy49 in # hive • 3 months ago • 1 min readThe downvotes on Hive from the Blurt gang are starting to stingCalling @mariuszkarowski , @ctime and the gang. The following article will amuse you mightily: People dish it out but they can't take it Ole acid is having to self-vote to counter it, the…candy49 in # hive • 3 months ago • 2 min readLeo begins it's move away from HiveNine months ago I wrote about how witnesses on Hive were attacking khaleelkazi of LeoFinance because he asked the leo community to vote for his witness: My conclusion was this: My feeling is…candy49 in # blurt • 4 months ago • 1 min readProBit is delisting Blurt on August 14!!!!Here is their announcement: All trading will cease on August 14th, and you need to withdraw your coins by September 15th. I don't know if we can negotiate with ProBit to keep the listing.…candy49 in # blurt • 4 months ago • 1 min readWe need more trading volume on Probit's Blurt-BTC pairOne way to promote Blurt is to try to increase the volume of trade on Probit. It's too difficult to get it featured on Probit's "top volume coins". But an increase in volume might prompt Probit to…candy49 in # hive • 11 months ago • 1 min readHive got listed on BitPanda... which resulted in a huge pump, with the price hitting 67 cents at one point. It's 53 cents as I write. This is the first new listing Hive has got since it forked from Steem four years ago.…candy49 in # hive • 11 months ago • 2 min readSo... Witness Wars have begun on HiveOld hands will remember that the reason Hive forked from Steem is that the top twenty witnesses felt that Justin Sun threatened their cushy set-up. And it is cushy, they each earn 11,000 Hive a…candy49 in # hive • last year • 1 min readSouth Korean martial law announcement affects crypto, including Hive and SteemThe President of South Korea threw a strop and declared martial law because the Korean National Assembly amended his budget and voted for $3bn spending cuts. It's affecting crypto: Bitcoin is…candy49 in # blurt • last year • 1 min readThe Lost/Orphaned BlurtWhen Blurt forked from Steem four years ago, a lot of exchanges received Blurt corresponding to the deposits of Steem they held. ProBit enabled Blurt trading and airdropped the legacy Blurt to…candy49 in # hive • last year • 1 min readThe whales on Hive are now attacking Splinterlands postsSee the following article, especially the comments: This time they're fighting with curators. Hive has a timed payout for curation. If you vote within 24 hrs, you get a linear payout based on…candy49 in # hive • last year • 1 min readHive is having another of it's panicsThis time the whales have decided that they're going to punish people who power down, or who withdraw their liquid earnings to an exchange. They're going to be excluded from upvotes to teach…candy49 in # uk • last year • 1 min readReally interesting forced choice pollingIf people had the choice of just two political parties, how would they vote? source The most interesting thing about this is the LibDems are everyone's least worst party.candy49 in # politics • last year • 1 min readHere is how opinion polls reacted to the US Presidential debateOn June 27th, the first US Presidential debate between Biden and Trump took place. It was a disaster for Biden, who appeared to have dementia. The Biden camp has pushed back at critics who want…candy49 in # uk • last year • 1 min readSo Labour won...... but they got a huge majority based on a mere 33.7% of the vote on a turnout of 59.9%. just 9,712,011 votes, less than Jeremy Corbyn managed in 2019 when he lost. Contrast to Boris Johnson's…candy49 in # uk • last year • 1 min readLooks like Reform have won the social media warHere is the data amassed by the Independent newspaper of engagements across Twitter/X, Facebook, Tiktok and Youtube: source Where Reform and Nigel Farage have excelled is video views on…candy49 in # uk • last year • 1 min readCould Labour win with fewer votes than in 2017?The general election is on Thursday 4th July, and opinion polls are pointing to votes splintering off to all sorts of small parties and independent candidates, but Labour winning a landslide…candy49 in # uk • last year • 1 min readWomen voters start to turn away from both Labour and ReformSo here's the latest opinion poll for the UK election, which is 9 days away. This one focuses on women voters: source As you can see, at the start of the contest in June, women voters…
