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promoting independent investigative journalism and creating an on-chain research repository.
With the overthrow of the Steem elected witnesses, centralization of the blockchain and the recent rampant censorship it should be made crystal clear that Deep Dives has migrated to HIVE where all future research efforts will occur on the community-based decentralized chain exclusively.
Censorship of an "immutable" blockchain is unacceptable and goes against the fundamental principles of the our small but passionate research community.
The emergence of censorship on our sister chain should send a chill down our collective spines as it will surely increase in frequency. Dissenting opinions are no longer tolerated on the Steem blockchain where longtime Steemians have had their content removed through coding updates done haphazardly through a single centralized authority.
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Thus far, just under 200 Steemians have subscribed to the community generating more support than initially expected. We thank you for your support and enthusiasm and hope that you will make the leap and join us at our new home on HIVE.
In a recent post, we asked for community feedback concerning the direction of #deepdives and received significant input from our followers. We greatly appreciate this and will do our best to incorporate your great suggestions as we go forward together.
At present, membership into the community has been based purely on previous engagement in the community through: posting, commenting, reblogging and upvoting. If you're interested in becoming an official member of the community, all you have to do is get engaged!
For those of you unfamiliar with #deepdives /
Deep Dives is a research project established by:
The next edition of the research challenge, and the first to appear on the Hive blockchain will be:
Enter to win your chance of a 50 Hive prize pool!
1st Prize = 30 Hive
2nd Prize = 12.5 Hive
3rd Prize = 7.5 Hive
There has been much discussion in the alternative media concerning whether or not COVID19/Corona Virus/SARS2 is a man-made bioweapon purposefully or accidentally released into the public.
This research challenge is open to ALL, and submissions in support or against the notion that the COVID19 as a bioweapon are encouraged.
Stay tuned for the official announcement of the contest.
Also, please wait to see the contest guidelines before submitting your post to DD17 and the #deepdives community page.
Be sure to check out some of the great work done by Deep Dives contributors over the last two years. Past winners and contributors include:
