(this is the #18 giveaway enabled post - check the giveaway details below)
Click 👉HERE👈 to read about how to participate in this post, if you are not yet familiar with its rules...
This last month was incredibly busy, yes. But before we get through all the action, let's take out of the way the new stuff that everyone should be paying attention (at least if you are participating on the giveaway).
If you are looking for the rules of engagement of this #giveaway and if you haven't already done so, check the post above first. This time, there are 2 NEW #NFTs that are now enabling you to further win more ATX on these giveaways enabled posts. So, whenever you have the time check them out at the bottom of THAT post.
(It's an old post for me to keep the rules updated and avoid repetition, but don't worry, I will tell people once there are big changes like this time around)
Currently, there are NFT's being sold in MEME and LIST. You can acquire more of those tokens via the respective markets or via some pools (MEME or LIST) through the beeswap website.
If you haven't already stumbled into it, give it a peek. It's on Etsy and goes by the name you will probably be familiar with: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ATeXoras
First of all, I would like to say A massive THANK YOU to everyone that has been supporting, testing, purchasing and providing feedback onto this initiative. I confess that after a few hours of starting this, I was already feeling like to "give up", but then I set my mind to give it a little bit more time (since costs where not yet something astronomical), and for now, I will keep working out this way.
The idea is simple, HIVE exposure!
And yes, it has to be sustainable and eventually if it turns out that is going on the right direction, I can move things to a more professional route, and bring back some of the profit back into HIVE. Ideally interfacing with existing tools developed by other witnesses allowing direct sales via HIVE/HBD or other side chain tokens for example.
Either way, I am accepting HBD already, and I have a sort of a manual process of doing it. Check out 
Truth to be told, it has been quite a bumpy road, figuring out some of the "hidden problems" within these e-commerce tools. Especially when within these businesses tools some are not prepared to integrate with your country laws.
At first, it looked all very easy to setup and I could focus on what would make the difference (designing), but then I started experiencing the "why's" of these are not as lucrative as some might think, and that you are mostly feeding the big giants that already monopolized the business.
Therefore you have multiple problems to solve, such as, the usual country fees (different ones depending both on production and the purchasing country), the business tools itself fees and other logistics within the transportation schemes, among others I haven't even found probably.
Like something 
In a nutshell, it's very hard to keep prices down unless you have huge amounts of volume and/or subscribe to paid premiums where you can extract some extra margin.
So, if you see prices that are too high for you (or the product quality), don't get me wrong as in the likes of "trying to squeeze tons of profit". It will likely be the product cost that is super high, or me trying to normalize other costs that aren't simple direct percentages formulas.
And please, do let me know. I'm still exploring all this stuff and trying to figure out where the heck I am going with all of this, but for now is mostly about trying to find all the dark corners, or most of them at least, all with very little time.
Finishing on a positive note, there's not yet tons of traffic within Etsy, and most of the attention is because of ALL YOUrselfs do, share, etc. But I can already see some interesting applications of extra exposure via these platforms, and where I can balance the effort of the initiative, in exchange of getting HIVE more attention in a regular basis.
And if possible, over time, have this thing run by itself with fewer adjustments. So, yeah, Thank you again! I don't feel I am yet there, but for me it's already a enriching experience and with it a steep learning curve (that almost comes for free).
To 
I will eventually test the store too for my own designs (just haven't yet had the time). Although there is already an #NFT there for sale, part of how you can get ATX distributed to who owns it, under these giveaways.
I have been pushing my way up over the ranks with Golem Overlord, and the idea was to be around or above rank 200, although that looks like not happening. Everyone is playing quite hard above rank 700, so it requires a bit more time. Might need at least another week if my estimates are right.
Also did offer 3 accounts on this giveaway for the game promotion last week. But I didn't have the massive response I was expecting. 😅 Maybe people do LOVE their precious HIVE a LOT more than I thought. 🙃 Which is something that would not surprise me.
They also got these background #NFTs!
 @arc7icwolf |  @hivetrending |
Either way, congrats to the winners! They basically got free accounts to play the game. And if you don't want to miss stuff like this in the future, you know where I am. I usually spread the word on Twitter too, just to get more exposure (but I have a feeling it's still not enough, so I will keep working on that).
On dCrops I am cooking finally! The stove took a wee bit to get ready, but I am now gaining XP by practicing the recipes, which will increase the bonuses each time to cook those particular ones.
Note that you will need to burn several #NFTs of a particular recipe to allow your XP to evolve into higher levels and access higher bonuses.
I feel now that opening all my NFTs was a "not so intelligent move". Important to mention, that retaining some packs (if you don't need them) or CROP tokens is quite useful if you are doing the quests every fortnight. Why? Well, the amount of rewards you get in your chest increases with your CROP Power, which is based on how many packs and CROP tokens you hold.
I need to get a lot of CROP now, to recover the increased chest rewards I previously had. So, I will be trying to pay attention to any sorts of promotions that get me advantage either buying packs or getting CROP tokens. Maybe holding CROP on the pool could start counting for the CROP power? Any chances of that being on the pipeline 
I have been a bit silent on this one for a while but that doesn't mean I am not building up... (actually the same applies to any games I play, to the best of my abilities). But just look at this image update! Just boosts something on the likes of the "The Witcher" looks for me... which is a franchising I really enjoy.
(image from 👉this👈 post)
Either way, if you read the latest updates here, you will find more about the newest changes about potions. These bring a completely revolutionary way play the game. Where YOU, small player, can suddenly plot a big uprising attack to the biggest bag you can find. Similar, big players will be able to strategically plan for bigger scenarios.
I am not sleeping... 😏
That's 86.009% + ( "(6.93072 / 1624.351 * 4 * 12) = 0.2048" = 20.48%) = 106.489% APR 😱🤑😎 - And for lots of days... still, by the looks of it!
Damn... it has been fun lately! The multiplayer stuff really made it a step up. You can check the video below, on some sort of an attempt to show off some fun. In reality, the experience is way better.
This weekend we have been going through the weekend tournament again and its always fun (even if I got late today). 
👉 You can check previous tournament experiences here.
👉 Discord server here
Continue reading there! 👇 😜
And the rewards are really something to brag about! 😱 Just check today's ones:
It's really cool to play with other HIVE people or even with anyone that don't even know about HIVE but have this amazing way to get to know the community via https://play.crypto-shots.com/play. This is a great way to show we are around and that this chain does get people together in a special way (while having fun!).
I am hearing everyone at this point asking for, "How do I get rewards by playing on multiplayer?"... here is the quick one:
https://twitter.com/cryptoshots_nft/status/1682701729815511040
- cryptoshots_nft
How to get the PASS or equivalent?
https://twitter.com/cryptoshots_nft/status/1682682557450575872
- cryptoshots_nft
You can also win rewards in the solo version at your own leisure, but I am expecting to see you kick my ass! 😁 Or the other way around...
My list is NOT 100% complete but this is a quick way for you to check, at least the ones I keep under my radar, especially if you are looking for more:
https://twitter.com/forkyishere/status/1655097919857639424
- forkyishere
Which was around the same time when I prepared this 👉 post (#15 giveaway).
During July, there were some updates (version 1.10.0 is now active) and if there are any new interested parties on running a HIVE-Engine node, please don't hesitate to reach out.
(https://primersion.com/he-witnesses by 
You can check details on github if you wish. But this segways me to my next topic which is a friendly reminder to everyone, that both HIVE and HIVE-Engine have expiring votes for witnesses. That is, if you don't do any governance broadcasts, your witness votes will eventually expire after 6 months (HIVE-Engine) or 1 year (HIVE).
This is an important security feature to avoid MIA (missing in action) accounts voting when they are not in control of their keys anymore. This will also make sure people need to actively be watching and curating the security of the chain, which is why is so important for anyone to spend at least sometime every 6 months, looking for witnesses to vote (not just anyone ok? do dig into them please).
It's not a big ask if you ask me, and its for the sake of everyone's interest. Links below for fast voting on mine, but do please check others and consider security seriously. Asking questions for example, is a big start! So, happy to answer any if you have them. Thank you! 🙏
For completeness of my end, the traffic to my stuff haven't changed much in terms of users, but in terms of "usage" it did almost doubled in the last 2 months! So that might mean, more "assiduous" users?
I know I have been lacking on the plans of getting a new kit ready for better performance. Still not forgotten... but because I know what's coming, that's influencing my decision. And while the current one works... that's going to have to do. HBM memory processors are getting me crazy! 😜 and that would be fricking perfect for the current HIVE code! Plus ARM... it's getting hard to decide, but I while i can, I will wait a bit more.
Go GO go and support #WOMEN on #FOOTBALL @ https://hivebuzz.me (WORLD CUP 2023 tab)
There is a ranking system... with upcoming rewards!
The prize pool will be split among participants using the following rules:
1st place: 20% of the prize pool
2nd place: 10% of the prize pool
3rd place: 5% of the prize pool
The rest of the prize pool will be distributed among all the participants in proportion to the number of badges they collected and the total of successful bets from the participants.
Have fun, play games, learn, and when possible, teach new things to newcomers, showing them how interesting this place can be.
Follow for #news about the #HIVE #Blockchain, and other stuff. I sometimes get crazy with what happens around social media. I am following all HIVE users! No promises of behavior. 😁
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