The News

$HIVE has been dipping under 5c again, but is still running in parallel with the legacy crapcoin. I really have no idea where it is going, but I am not purely driven by what I earn here. I find Hive fun and I have a lot of friends here so I am not going anywhere.

There has been more news about premium features on @peakd, but it looks like you can still do most things for free. If you want to use the AI creation tools or post lots of pictures then you can pay the small fee. The fact that we get these great tools for free is great, but those features have costs. I have been contributing some rewards from my posts to them.

@tibfox posted about new features in @threespeak. Having chapters in videos is cool and you can also link to other videos. This is stuff that has been in Youtube for years. You can also opt to have ads in your videos to help the platform. Video needs massive storage and that can get expensive.

Friday Follows

• Last weekend I was at a Hive meetup in London. I was there with @shanibeer (who organised the venue), @adetorrent, @livinguktaiwan, @davidthompson57, @alonicus plus his other half. Some of them have posts with photos so check them out. We need more meetups around the world and they do not have to be anything grand. Just name a time and place then get the word out. Someone may turn up and it swill be fun.
• @chris-uk came close to losing his Hive account due to some hack, but is back. See below for more on how to recover yours. He posts a lot about what he is reading and I see he has been looking at @scrobble where you can log books.
• @epodcaster is preparing for a month of podcasts in November and I may participate too. 3speak is looking like a viable platform for that.

The Dog House

You may well have seen a lot of comments about a 'Hive airdrop'. That is something that never actually happens and it is a scam. These scammers are trying to get your keys so they can steal your funds. There should not generally be a need to enter your keys into sites you do not totally trust. You should be using Keychain and anything that wants your master key is likely to be dodgy. You only need that to do things like changing your keys and that is what the crooks will do to lock you out.

Please tell all your Hive friends to ignore those comments. Previously they have often used new accounts that may look like something official from Hive, but you will see they are new and do not have much of a reputation score. That will soon get knocked down as people downvote them. Now they are using accounts they have stolen which may have a good reputation. That is harder to reduce, but you should still be suspicious of any giveaways. People need to prove themselves to be trusted for that.

If your account is stolen then there may be a chance to recover it. Read this by @thekittygirl. It depends on having a recovery account who you can rely on to help you out.

I have said this before, but also beware of 'support' accounts on Discord who pop up on certain keywords and try to direct you to a private channel. Report any of those you see.

The End

It has been an 'interesting' week with major panics about PHP issues and insecure certificates that could let crooks fake web sites. The internet is very complex and the crooks are smart so you have to be vigilant. That is especially true with Hive where you are responsible for your own security.

Take care and Hive five!

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