Kenny's Hive Hints, Episode 0: Getting Started on Hive (Featuring @ELAmental)
Hello beautiful humans!
It's been over a year since I finished my "2 Minute STEEM Tips" series... and in that time not only has the block-chain hard-forked, but SO many other things have changed. From the death of dtube and rise of 3speak, to the birth of various new games, dApps, and plug-ins, our blockchain is an ever-evolving ecosystem.
Since I've started hyping the chain again, and getting more friends onboarded (3 of them just recently: 
For this announcement episode, I'm coming to you with my good friend @ELAmental, right from the set of his Backyard Cannabis Farming series! Join us as we discuss a few of the biggest keys to getting a successful start on Hive, and he drops a few sneak peeks at his upcoming projects.
The Big 5
Since I did want to add some specific knowledge to this video, not just promo & plugs, here's the list of the 5 most important things (at least as they came to mind that evening) to get started:
- Know the difference between your private keys (Master > Active > Posting)
- Back up your master/recovery key on paper somewhere. If your devices are gone, are you locked out?
- Start using the Hive Keychain plugin
- Community! Let your friends know you've joined, find communities, start following people
- Have no expectations - Just keep doing what excites you
2 Minute STEEM Tips (the old series)
Not all of this is still relevant; certainly none of it is recently updated. I have bolded out the episodes that do have the most still-useful information. Just something to hold space as I start into this new series!
- Voting
- Community-Driven Contests
- Connecting IRL
- Tagging Your Posts
- Steem Power... Voting Power... What's the Difference?
- Cross Pollination (or, helping each other build a following)
- How much should I be posting? (plus 'your feed' and touching on votes again)
- Leveraging Your Old Social Media Platforms
- BlockTrades: The best tool for moving between STEEM and other cryptos (and thus to fiat)
- Whatever Type of Content You Create, The STEEM Ecosystem Has a Place for You
- Where Can You Actually See Your Stats, Transaction History, Etc.?
- How to Comment (and how not to comment)
- Where does the 'money' come from?
- How Do Payouts Work?
- "How Do I Private Message Other Steemians?"
- How To Use Dtube (The Decentralized Video Platform)
- Passwords/Private Keys - What Are They, and How to Protect Them!
- Witnesses - What role do they play, and why should you vote for them
- How to use AnonSteem to create an account INSTANTLY
- Writing Your Introduceyourself Post! (Why it matters, and what to remember)
- Perseverence, Improvement, and Not Having Expectations
- Resteeming... How does it work? How to maximize the effect?
- How to delegate SteemPower (and exactly what that means)
- How To Redeem Your Rewards!! (please do this often)
- Do I have to pay taxes on my STEEM?
- How to buy & sell STEEM/SBD on the market... plus why & when to do so
- How to Use SteemAuto (Curation Trails, Scheduling Posts, and Auto-Voting)
- Flagging/Downvoting
- Posting things from your blog on Steemit, Steemit's anti-plagiarism, and @steemcleaners
- Setting up your Steemit profile, how to add profile & cover images
- Just do what you love to do, your content should be a reflection of you
- Dtube, part 2: Some clarifications & changes since the first video
- How To See Where You've Been Mentioned (and other useful features of SteemWorld.org)
- Unlocking your voting weight slider... and what the heck is an MVest?
- Finding Content Creators to Follow & Support... and Sharing Them With the World
- SteemPeak.com -> The Replacement for Steemit.com
- Making the Most of Your DTube Posts
Stay Tuned!
There will be new episodes of this series coming out every day or two, until I feel like I've at least got the (updated) basics published, so I can just send this series to folks who are getting started, instead of having to walk each one through all the intricacies.
Be sure to follow my blog so you don't miss an episode!
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