What is peak.com (where you posted your other article)? Does it also work like hive.blog? Are there other sites that have a payout in the same way?

The hive blockchain, where all of this data is stored, is accessible through different interfaces being developed by different people. hive.blog is the (open source) hive team core developers while peakd is a different group who took the source code further by bringing new features to the mix. Our work can therefore be viewed in a multitude of different ways which are always being developed by new people. For now I find the peakd interface the best user experience for a desktop computer.

Also, I made a password via ecency.com. I have no idea why I had to go through another site, and what ecency is. It is all still very mysterious to me. :-)

Ecency is one of those sites I just mentioned. Don't know why hive.blog can't offer new accounts. This seems counterproductive. Still, you made it in I suppose. Though understandably confused.

Many thanks for the Reich links! This is fantastic you were able to remember and find it so easily without needing the physical book. I look forward to checking these out in a quiet moment.

(BTW, today is the anniversary of Nagasakis bombing, and my birthday... Coincidence? Nah, I don't think so...)

No such thing as coincidence in my books!