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Hello everyone! 😎😜

I've been wondering all day whether to write something or not (hahah, even though I'm at the seaside, I still have to cook for the kids, walk the dog, and do a few other things at Hive), so I've only just gotten around to it.
I was inspired by @uwelang's post
@uwelang/nine-years-part-of-this-blockchain-community

Of course, today is the day, August 13, 2016, when I officially became a member of this, or rather the previous (Steemit) network.
I had no idea what crypto was, and to be honest, even now, I don't fully understand it, especially these new possibilities that are now emerging. I only follow all the news here, but most of the time (offline), I am busy with my field.

But I'm not a newbie to the internet either. Anyone who has surfed with Gopher on Aminet and Netscape Navigator as the first image browser will know what I'm talking about. Back then, HTML was coded by hand, in some text editor or even a prompt, as is fashionable now. You don't even have to search anymore, just ask some AI, which is now as common as shit...

I'll go back about 26 years, when I registered my first domain (ilbis.com), and then a few hundred more. However, the business didn't work out very well for me, so I gave it up, actually selling everything to a larger company. I still have that first domain, and currently, all the content I write here is being transferred there, thanks to @bambukah, and I hope he'll continue developing the script.
Maybe I should put some Hive ads there, but for now, it stays as it is.

But that's not what I wanted to say :)

Nine years is now about half the time I've been blogging. Since quite a few things didn't work out for me online, I decided eighteen years ago to just write about what was happening to me, to see if anyone was interested and how much I was worth as a blogger.
First, I encountered a few scams. I remember FanBox; they were really crooks. There were a few more in between. In fact, everything washed away. The last one was TSU, which wasn't actually a scam but simply an unsustainable business model. The owners announced that it wasn't working out for them and that they would be closing down.
Well, @uwelang was there too, and I think (I won't say 100%) that it was through him that I ended up on the Steemit social blockchain. From there, I also know @melinda010100, but she's a little younger here :)

I admit, the first year I was trying to figure out where I was going with this, posting some pictures, mostly flowers and kaleidoscopes, haha, and I remember when @melinda010100 reminded me that I had the will, but that I had to try harder, that I had to write and present more to deserve the rewards.
I took her seriously and realized what blogging is. It's not just writing, but also interacting with others. Since then, things have only gotten better, and my posts have continued to improve.
She's a wonderful person, and even now, after so many years, she still helps newcomers. So, I can't help but be eternally grateful to her for what I am today :)

And while we're on the subject, interaction and collaboration with other users in the social blockchain (which, for me, is Hive) is the essence, the foundation on which you can build, gain experience, and form your view of everything that is happening here.

Of course, I also experienced the drama with Justin Sun and then the fork on Hive five years ago. I didn't even think about it at the time; it was completely clear to me that I had to fork. Since then, my learning curve has been more gradual, but now I'm here and I know what I'm doing. I don't need anything more than that.

As you all know, Hive is not perfect. It never has been. There are always some frictions, but that's just how decentralized life is. I regret some things, such as the bots that could be used for advertising, which some interest groups and whales didn't like and mercilessly banned. Not everything was perfect, but that's part of the crypto game. Now there are bots, even the same ones, and almost everything is done as before, only more sophisticatedly.
After all, if you think that AIs are not sophisticated bots and will soon dominate all automated work (if they don't already), and that this will not happen on Hive, too, you are either a Luddite or a complete idiot.

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The other thing is more personal. I am involved with video and music, recording videos in an underground club, and working with hardcore and punk bands that mostly no one even notices, and who don't make a living from their music. I have uploaded more than 300 videos to DTube over the years, believing that it would be my online archive, but I was wrong. Everything disappeared. I hope that the same won't happen with 3speak.tv, where I've been uploading for three years. Now some models are telling me that if I upload this to 3spk again, it will be plagiarism.

WTF? How can it be plagiarism if DTube no longer exists? Well, I hope I'll be able, somehow, to sort this out.

Finally, here is my personal opinion about the future of Hive.
The first thing to note is that there are different interest groups within Hive (those with power, the whales), and they do not share the same views on where Hive should go in the future. Each pulls in its direction. That's fine, but it shouldn't be restricted; after all, Hive is supposed to be the pinnacle of online decentralization.

On the other hand, as an European, all these new possibilities, Distriator, Hive payment cards, and everything else that is coming, don't help me. There are always new rules and restrictions in crypto aimed at taxing us as much as possible.

The worst-case scenario is that once Hive becomes worth much more than it is now, with all these new NoKYC technologies, it will undoubtedly become a threat to large corporations and banks with their stablecoins, and they will try to destroy it.
Whether they will succeed and how, I do not know.

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Ugh, I've written too much, but hey, everyone has their moment (this anniversary is just right for something like that), and I'm not going anywhere. 😎

Thank you for your attention.

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