Why HIVE Pumped? 3Speak or YouTube? SEO Talk and more .:. Recap of Hive Humpday Hangout SE #12 (January 8, 2025)

I suppose the hardest thing to do is to come back to the working routine after the holidays, or a longer break... 😃 Christmas and New Year holidays and a 3-days getaway trip to another city were such a nice "logout" from the workload (but still doing basic things on the way), that I had a hard time to kick myself in the butt and do this show! I was even considering skipping another week as to why I didn't create a classic announcement post for the show... At least I used our short-content platforms to announce it a few hours before doing it! Something good came out of it... 😃

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What's also interesting is that those shows that aren't prepared, very often come out as a huge success... When I say huge success, it means that the discussion is well developed, many people participated in it, and it got a lot of value in bringing it up! Of course, in these "freestyle" editions, I have to say that most of the merits go to the participants who ignited the topics and participated in it... Don't want to take merits for someone else's work!

As I did a lousy job with promoting the show, we had a small group of active Hivians... I have to mention, that we had for the first time @alohaed and @dlmmqb, and they both jumped on the mic to introduce themselves and share some ideas and topics! It was great to have you on the show and I hope you will join them in the future too! Of course, the hardcore group of #HHHLive participants is always there and I don't know what would I do without you guys!

So, how it was? Well, I dropped a few ideas at the beginning of the show, like New Year resolutions, or HIVE goals for 2025, but it looks like none of them stuck with participants... 😃 The discussion went in the other direction, as the elephant in the room was the recent HIVE pump... But, this time, without the "dump" that was usually coming right behind the corner... When @felixxx came on the microphone sharing that it caught him off guard, it was comforting as I have to admit that I was caught off guard too! I sold some of my HIVE which I use for "playing around" (mostly for accumulating more through trades), in the expectation that the price would go down fast, and I will be able to buy more... That didn't happen, but I'm not worried, the majority of the tokens are still there, working as HivePower! 💪

Why was the HIVE price pumped? That was the first topic for discussion and @alohaed shared his view about it, stating that probably the main reason was that Binance added HIVE into their perpetual trading, and not long after that, a few more exchanges listed HIVE on them... That was an additional gasoline on fire, that pushed the price almost to 70 cents!

From that topic, we moved to talk about HivePower and how it is accumulating in the bull market and in the bear market... @palomap3 shared her idea of swapping from 100% HP rewards to 50-50% rewards to be able to use the liquid HBD to buy later more HIVE... Not a bad move, IF the price goes down... 🙂 As many people expect that the bull run has just started, we saw many Hivians powering down their HivePower, to have liquid HIVE to take some profits... If that trend continues, there is a chance that the curation rewards for the "rest of us" could go up... But, we will see...

@jza joined the show a bit later this time, but he wanted to contribute and shared that he agrees about the recent HIVE pump reason... He also started another huge topic which was floating around until the end of the show... He shared his recent experience with onboarding a friend to 3Speak and their confusion with rewards... It's not that easy for a newbie to understand that not the whole amount that shows under the post/video is the "payout amount" for the author... What should those calculations look like? Is it better to show ONLY author rewards under the post, or we should do it somehow differently... We had different opinions regarding that...

Of course, that led to the inevitable comparison between YouTube and 3Speak... Pros and cons, and how 3Speak could do better... Somehow, because they don't understand, newbies undervalue the importance of curation on HIVE, and curation rewards in general... It is a specific concept on HIVE, and it can't be comparable with anything similar on YouTube... The conclusion is somehow always the same, any dapp on HIVE, or HIVE itself, could be better and grow better if we share our suggestions at the right place... For example, 3Speak Discord could be a good place to share ideas about these small tweaks for the UX of the website...

In the second part of the show, closer to the end, @dlmmqb joined us on the microphone and shared some of his thoughts about the SEO on HIVE... Interestingly, I did a post about a very similar topic, where I tried to ignite discussion about the value of HIVE posts outside HIVE, as to get those visits, we have to be more "visible" on the search engines and that means better SEO...

As @dlmmqb didn't want all this finished only in words, he shared his work in the SEO field and ideas on how to improve it... Dynamic webpages are one of the "must-haves" and the idea of showing random posts is a nice start... As we were closing to the end of the show, @melinda010100 suggested @dlmmqb share those ideas in the "suggestion channel" on the Ecency discord! Usually, good and valuable ideas are implemented by developers! We hope that this will be the case for these ideas too!

As this was the Special Edition show, there is no recording of the show, so if you want to participate in these ones, you are always welcome to join! It is open to everyone and we would like to hear your thoughts and experiences... This time we had 11 participants (including myself)... Thanks, @alohaed, @bulkathos, @felixxx, @foxkoit, @jza, @melinda010100, @palomap3, @dlmmqb, @sacra97, and @travoved! Thanks everyone for participating!!!

Thank you, guys and girls, once again! As a sign of appreciation, I will send some LEN tokens to all participants of the live show! You can pair them with LENM tokens, add liquidity to the diesel pool, and earn rewards! If you want to learn more about the project behind it, check out the @liotes account or visit the Liotes website... Of course, if you are not interested in it, you can sell tokens on the Hive-Engine market...

To encourage more people to come on the mic, I have sent an additional 100 Ecency POINTS to people who shared their thoughts in voice with us (this time we had 4 participants in voice)! So POINTS are going to @alohaed, @felixxx, @jza, and @dlmmqb!

Special thanks goes to @melinda010100 and @good-karma for providing the space for the event!

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SE11	Pump and Dump Discussion, Hive is an Opportunity Creator, etc.	Link
35	(Im)Balance Between Crypto and Fiat	Link
SE10	ValuePlan Discussion, Funding Startups, Games on Hive, etc.	Link
34	The Magical Kingdom! Talk with @hallmann!	Link
33	How Do YOU Vote For Hive Witnesses?	Link
32	To Delegate HivePower or Not?	Link
SE09	3Speak issues and Discussion, Gambling Apps on Hive, Taxes, etc.	Link
31	Quiz Time!!! - HHHLive 1st Anniversary	Link
30	How HIVE Changes Lives	Link
29	HiveFest9, Impressions by @ninaeatshere, @achim03, and others	Link
28	How Do We Spend Our Crypto?	Link
SE08	The Gang is Back, Breaking the Limits	Link
SE07	Ecency Waves, HivePower, Splinterlands, HiveFest, LPs, and more!	Link
27	How Hive Proposals Work?	Link
26	Content Creation Experiences	Link
SE06	Education, Traveling Ecency Spoilers, Hive elephants...	Link
25	Why Did the Hive Price Drop?	Link
24	What Do We Expect From Hive and Crypto!	Link
23	Aachen Meetup and WorldMapPin Talk With @detlev!	Link
SE05	Usernames Origins, Age, Early Retirement, Crypto Portfolio, and more...	Link
22	Helping Hive to Thrive	Link
21	Make Yourself Uncomfortable (on Hive!)	Link
20	First Excursions Out of the Comfort Zone	Link
SE04	BuzzParty Impressions, Weekly Recap, Bonfire	Link
19	Ways To Buy/Sell Hive!	Link
SE03	Foods, Crypto Research, Education, Predictions	Link
18	Best Tools For Content Creation	Link
17	Consistency and Adding Value	Link
SE02	After Show Show	Link
16	CBRS Philanthropy Chat With @minigunner!	Link
15	Profit Taking Planning	Link
14	Ecency/Hive Chat With @good-karma!	Link
SE01	Relaxed "Exclusive" Session	Link
13	Writer's Block and How To Overcome It	Link
12	Hive-Engine Tokens	Link
11	Hive Guidelines for Newbies	Link
10	NY Resolutions and Creating Hive Goals	Link
9	How Was Your (HIVE) 2023?	Link
8	Presenta tu comunidad - ES/EN Show! - Part 2	Link
7	Present Your Community - Part 1	Link
6	How to Start on Hive?	Link
5	Do You Upvote Quality Posts?	Link
4	Genuine? Authentic? To be or not to be?	Link
3	Hive Power, HP Delegation, HivePUD...	Link
2	Hive Meetups, HiveFest, HiveBeeCon	Link
1	Pilot Episode (Aired 2023-10-18) - The Vision	Link

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