**Hive Cannot Grow—Because It’s Being Strangled from Within**

How can a garden flourish when its soil is poisoned by the very hands that claim to tend it? **Hive.blog** was born with promise—a place where creators could be rewarded, where speech could be sovereign, where value flowed from truth, not favor. But today, that dream is shackled. Chained by **downvoting whales** who mistake control for curation. Choked by **farming syndicates** who treat the blockchain not as a commons, but as a private mint. And betrayed by a system where **the owner delegates power directly to the very accounts burying honest voices**—a move so brazen, it doesn’t just break trust… it cremates it. You think no one sees? **Everyone sees.** Some scroll past in silence. Others shrug: *“As long as I get my scraps.”* But those “scraps” aren’t free. They’re paid for—in real human cost. Look closely at the posts you’re told to celebrate: - The family traveling the world on “Hive income.” - The new house bought with “passive rewards.” - The idyllic farm life funded by “community support.” Ask yourself: **Who is really paying for this?** It’s not magic. It’s **you**. It’s the small stakeholder powering up their last HIVE. It’s the new investor sold a dream of decentralization—only to watch their capital bleed into an **unlimited supply** inflated by whales who mint influence faster than code can keep up. They burn comments to farm curation rewards. They self-vote their own projects through alt armies. They delegate in closed loops while preaching “fairness” to the masses. And at the top? The platform’s own steward—**delegating Hive Power to the architects of exclusion**. Not in secret. Not by accident. **Openly. Repeatedly. Unapologetically.** This isn’t mismanagement. It’s **institutionalized extraction**. So no—more users won’t fix Hive. Better apps won’t save it. New features are just fresh paint on rotting beams. Because until the core is cleansed—until power is no longer inherited by cronies and enforced by downvotes—**nothing will change**. The cycle will repeat: Dream → Exploit → Disillusion → Exodus. That’s why we say: **look elsewhere**. If you seek a place where your vote is yours alone— where you can support who you love, when you choose, without fear of retaliation— **Blurt.blog is that sanctuary**. No downvotes. No shadow delegations. No farms disguised as fellowship. Just freedom. Raw, rare, and real. Hive may still echo with the ghosts of what it promised. But the future? **The future is being built where trust hasn’t been auctioned off to the highest whale.** Come build it with us. You thought the downvotes were silent. You thought your power was invisible. You thought that because you moved in circles close to the throne—the owner, the insiders, the untouchables—you could erase voices with impunity and never answer for it.

【スマブラSP】The Masked Rebel (Joker From 'Persona 5')