The News

People were getting excited this week as the $LEO price shot up. You can see it looking to overtake $TRON (yuck) in orange.

I did not have $LEO on the chart before as I could not find it on Coingecko. There is something called LEO, but that is different and much bigger. I saw that the LeoFinance wallet said it was getting the price from there and @khaleelkazi confirmed it is actually listed as $BLEO on there.

Talking of @leofinance, their site has had some major updates this week with improved notifications and listing of posts. It is not just limited to seeing the finance posts now.

Friday Follows

• I have been enjoying lots of drumming posts from @giampaolo19 who is experimenting with effects. I love seeing what audio setup people have and I created a community dedicated to that.
• I love seeing Hivers collaborate on projects. Poet @raj808 and @nickyhavey did that on a spoken word piece that was performed at a poetry evening.
• I also think people should be free to criticise Hive. @killerwot did that in this post. I agree that marketing is a weak point. We really should have far more users by now, but what can we do to improve that?
• I read about the wedding of @noemilunastorta from her mother @silviabeneforti, but she has done her own post about some of the celebrations. Congratulations!

These people get a share of the post rewards.

The Doghouse

Last week I wrote about the Leo Discord getting taken over to promote a phishing scheme. This shows that scammers are taking notice of this platform. I saw another sign with a couple of Leo Threads from this account.

This looks like some fake job site that I am not going to click on. If it were that easy to make lots of money with 'no prior experience or skills' then we would all be doing it. If there is a job then it may be illegal. That account has zero HP, so will soon run out of resource credits and may find its reputation sent negative. Of course they can set up more accounts, but without HP they cannot do much. That is part of the Hive defence measures. As I understand it if the blockchain gets really busy then the cost of transactions will go up, so that makes it harder to spam effectively. We will see more of this, so report what you see to those who can do something about it.

Hive Sites

• NFTMart is a place to buy items for various Hive games. I just use it for @risingstargame as it makes it simple to find cards and do a single transaction to buy them. I can also sell on there.
• @splinterlands players can use PeakMonsters to manage their decks. I use SplinterRents to rent out my cards.
• I use Tribaldex to manage my 'diesel pools' of various tokens, but you can also use it to buy and sell Hive Engine tokens.
• There are various sites to track what is happening with your account, but I use Hive Now that gives simple details on votes and rewards.

The End

I have done #FollowFriday most weeks for years, but I am happy to see others use the tag or their own variations for promoting other users. I do encourage use of the beneficiaries feature when doing that to spread the rewards. Let me know if you do such posts.

Hive five!