Hello fellow Hive Family. Today I want to announce a new Community on Hive for those of us who are members of both Hive and Bitclout communities.
Here we can discuss Bitclout off the chain, and brainstorm various ways to benefit both communities— possibly, by leveraging both technologies.
As you may be aware, Bitclout is improving tremendously and quickly. It's developing its first CIP system, and plans to move to PoS or a similar mechanism. It's also now listed on Blockchain.com, and we're anticipating possible listings on Coinbase and Binance. NFT's are also coming soon.
Bitclout has onboarded almost a quarter million accounts and 20K active users in 120 days. That's phenomenal.
Still, despite the 100+ dApps that are already surfacing built on Bitclout, we know that Bitclout can learn a lot from Hive both in way of community planning and organization, ethos, as well as tech. Notably, we have a lot to learn from Bitclout as well. I could only imagine what Hive would be with Bitclout's rate of adoption, pricing strategies, and the powerful niche community it attracts.
Those of us on both chains have found ourselves in a peculiar place. In general, we are (by proof of being) chain-agnostic and blockchain enthusiasts— but most notably, user/creator-centric.
When the soft fork happened on Bitclout, I sensed some feelings of dissent and disgruntled emotions from the community. One of the most potent things Bitclout has done for me personally is help me find a TRUE tribe of people who I really vibe with. And while that is Hive's biggest sell, I've yet to ever really make more than 10 real friends here since 2017 (losing my keys didn't help, that would be my fault— but I digress.)
If anything happened to Bitclout (forbid it so), I would hate to lose touch with everyone I've come to know. Likewise, if anything happened to Hive or my account, there is always Bitclout.
I feel like lots of Bitclouters would really love HIVE! Especially the developer community on Bitclout. I also feel like Hive would love Bitclout, if given a chance. Both communities have strengths and weaknesses that compliment each other and I feel both could really benefit from being more connected.
That said, it's been on my mind to start a TRIBE (like Leo) on HIVE for Bitclout. And to create a tokens on Hive chain to further connecting both chains. I'd like to explore ways that we can cross post our Bitclout posts to Hive, and our Hive posts to Bitclout.
I'd also like to explore ways that this cross-community could cross-curate. Automated Diamond-curation trails on Bitclout?
Another really cool thing I like about Hive is how far the Leo community has built in way of its tokens, and it's bridge to Eth. I think that's also doable- more even so with BEPs.
We could really open it all up by leveraging all we know considering the tech and mechanisms of both chains. We know that HIVE has the most powerful system- and given birth to incredible dApps like dSound (pre-Audius), 3Speak (whoa!) and even DLux (web 3!)
I'm also exploring how Ghostmarker/Phantasma and Cargo.build is using NFTs— as these seem the most cutting edge.
Not the best developer by a landslide, but I've undertaken taken refresher courses to explore what the possibilities are. That aside, as a community, I still wanted to make a place on HIVE that Bitclout users felt welcomed and not shunned for their participation on Bitclout.
One of the biggest problems in social-blockchain is the competition. Off-blockchain, users have Facebook accounts AND Twitter AND Instagram AND Linkedin. On-blockchain, we have a sense that we have to be loyal to one community and in doing so, we work against our own equity and investments.
Just like having shares in businesses, at heart, we want to see all of our babies grow! As a momma, I don't preference once child above another. Likewise, I love Hive community (pre-fork community mostly) and it's the first Blockchain social project I've truly had love for. But I openly admit, I adore Bitclout community as well. Ultimately, it would be well if we could all grow together. Web 3 is bringing more interconnectedness between blockchains both in tech and community.
😄 Why not both??? 😄
Okay, so to the point:
You are all welcome to subscribe.
If you make a post in this community with your Bitclout link and your thoughts about how to integrate Hive and Bitclout, I will make you a MEMBER ROLE in the community.
I will be working on a curation trail, upvoting mechanism, and other things. I just want your ideas and feedback. Think as far out the box as you desire. No judgement at all.
The off the chain Discord is https://discord.gg/ZqVJv8BBZt
You are all welcome to post your Hive Posts in Post Promo channels and your bitclout posts. I will do my best to Diamond and Upvote anything I see. (and it would rock if you did you but no pressure.)
If you'd be interested in taking a major or minor role in any sense, please let me know.
The Community USERNAME (on Hive) is
I'm still learning how communities work so bare with me.
On Bitclout I'm https://bitclout.com/u/brixboston100
The discord on Bitclout is https://bitclout.com/u/offthechain
I've been using https://cloutavista.com/ and https://cloutdash.com/ to look for users on Hive and Steemit that are on Bitclout. Harder to find Bitclout users here on Hive but there are quite a few.
Hope you join the community :)
I'll also be working on a list of people on both chains (maybe a spreadsheet.)
