Hive is a new platform where you can earn cryptocurrency by consuming content. How is that possible? The Hive platform has a cryptocurrency of its own called HIVE. More of it is continuously created to be given out as rewards for posting content and liking (upvoting) it. To earn rewards for liking content you need to "power up" your HIVE coins which means that they become your Hive Power that determines the size of your vote when you like or upvote content and also the size of your rewards for liking content. You can buy HIVE from a cryptocurrency exchange and power it up or you can earn it by posting popular content that your readers upvote. You are also rewarded for using your voting power for upvoting posts. You can get started without buying any HIVE by signing up using a free Hive registration provider.
Consumer rewards are your rewards for active participation. You as one of the owners of the platform get to enjoy rewards for tending your own garden.
Go to https://hive.io/
Go to https://signup.hive.io/
You can use many different websites or even desktop or mobile applications to post content to Hive using the same account. I will list some of the most popular websites or applications that you can use to post to Hive. Hive is a data storage used by many websites.
Hive.blog is a blogging web application. You can write and publish posts or comments and also vote on posts using it. A separate wallet app is at wallet.hive.blog.
PeakD is another blogging web application. It also has analytics, a photo portfolio and many useful tools to manage your Hive accounts.
3speak is a video platform that uses Hive. When you publish a video, 3speak.online makes a Hive post and embeds your video in your post. Any Hive user can like (vote on) your videos.
Esteem.app is a website where you can download the eSteem desktop and mobile applications.
D.Tube is another video platform that makes Hive posts with videos embedded in them.
Hive is a blockchain. A blockchain is a distributed database designed not to have a single entity (like a corporation) own and control it. Hive is thus said to be decentralised. About one hundred volunteers own servers that each have a copy of the database. The copies are kept in sync through consensus between the servers owned by Hive users voted in by all the users. There is no dictator on Hive who can censor you or stop you from transferring your coins. Hive is about strong support for freedom of speech and censorship-resistance.
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