You may have noticed that the crypto markets took another hit this week. Bitcoin is down to about $80k after the heady heights recently of $105k. $HIVE caught a cold too, but I do not let that get me down. I am earning every day.
I saw a few things happening this week, but 
@harbiter has an album out there now. I will be listening when I find the time, but I have caught some performances he has shared on Hive.
@alex-rourke just reached orca status on Hive. That is defined as 100M VESTS (the internal Hive currency that gets expressed as the inflationary HP, currently about 60k HP). We have hundreds of Hive orcas. Alex gives a nice description of what that power means. It gives you a say in what happens on Hive, but it is up to you how to use it. You may find people asking for your vote and that brings some pressure.
@coldbeetrootsoup team have been out spending crypto. I saw this done in Split at Hivefest, but have not done it myself yet. You need to find businesses who will take crypto and then you can use the 
@v4vapp to convert your $HIVE or $HBD to something like Lightning. I think I worked out how to do this within the Hive Keychain browser. You can find businesses on BTC Map.
@libertycrypto27 has a nice tutorial on changing your keys. This is an important skill for Hivers. If you think that your keys may have been compromised then you should update them. It is not that hard to do.I am using 
The Hive community has a built-in immune system that reacts to bad behaviour and bad attitudes. If you upset the wrong people then you may find your account gets a low or even negative reputation and your rewards disappear. That can be hard to take if you feel it was unfair, but attacking the community is unlikely to make it better.
You may have seen comments like these on some posts. I do not even know the origin of how whey got to this state, but the person in question is posting thousands of comments via several accounts that seem to be mostly identical. That fits my definition of spam and so some of them get downvoted. Of course I have muted the accounts so that I do not get lots of notifications. The comments are an incoherent mess of links and 'AI' generated junk that nobody is going to read. They see themselves as being on some sort of crusade to root out corruption on Hive, but it may be largely aimed at themselves for being annoying.
I did try engaging with this person, but they persist with the rants and I have given up. Their issues are nothing to do with me and I have better things to do.
Hive is not perfect and some people will use their power against those they dislike. We cannot control what others do, but that is the freedom of Hive. You can choose whether to support them of course.
I find it hard to care about this particular individual as they have chosen to be an annoyance. We cannot stop them posting, but they are not winning friends. No doubt they will respond to this and perhaps tag me on a post, but I will not be reading it. I suggest that you make use of the mute button where you see fit. An advantage of communities is that administrators can mute accounts generally to keep things on topic.
We are already at the end of February. That means I will be doing another #BritList post tomorrow. I have not found too many new entries this month. The number of active Brits is not going up. The price may be a factor, but I find Hive a better place to get engagement than the corporate platforms. I have cut back on using them as they tend to frustrate me.
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