All this geek stuff is totally not my cup of tea - when it comes to this sort of thing I don't know shit from chewed dates...
But I'll have a crack at explaining this because people keep asking me what is going on.
A few months back I was telling everyone I follow on Hive to tag their posts with #pob (or #proofofbrain) – that was mainly because I had turned all my attention and voting to the POB front ends, https://www.proofofbrain.blog/ and https://www.proofofbrain.io/ and unless you tagged your post #pob I probably wouldn’t even see it, let alone vote for it.
I’ll try not to have another big bleat about Hive being trashed by whales and insider accounts downvoting, but I did pack a sad and power down all my Hive, which on all my accounts totalled nearly 250k HP.
I won’t be investing in HP again because everything I post on Hive is downvoted – all my posts and comments, and the same is happening to many of my friends, so I've moved most of my voting power into VYB where there will be no downvoting.
But you don’t have to use it to earn VYB tokens – just tag your posts with #vyb (or #verifyyourbrain)
As far as my own accounts go I’m still fine tuning things but what I'm aiming for is:
Hive (total in all my accounts) = just 100HP - this is a huge drop from 250000HP, but I've had a gutsful of the downvoting. I’ll leave my autovotes running but they won’t be worth anything.
POB = 10k staked.
VYB = 120k+ staked - and this I'll let grow.
All my VYB voting will be manual and done from @frot – I won’t be deliberately doing any autovoting on VYB and am in the process of checking that my 10 old autovote accounts don’t have any VYB in them because VYB is against autovoting, self voting, and down voting. Great!
So my votes in VYB will be by far the most valuable ones I’m doing.
If you tag your posts with both #pob and #vyb you will earn both, as well as Hive tokens, but bugger all Hive from me because my votes are near to worthless in Hive now.
When using tags, #pob and #vyb are short, quick to type, and easy to remember – but you can use the long form tags #proofofbrain and #verifyyourbrain instead, or as well, if you prefer.
OK – now for a big shout out – sorry to be a pain in the arse!
You guys will earn VYB tokens from me if you do some awesome posts and tag them #vyb
