The News

Crypto fans are getting excited about Bitcoin going up. I do not hold any, but it tends to influence the general market. It does not seem to be having too much effect on $HIVE. It has been dropping in the @coingecko charts despite holding its price and even creeping up a little, but it has slipped from the 1000 Satoshi level. I am not sure why my chart is missing some data. There may be some restrictions on how much Coingecko let you download now.

I did not do a #FollowFriday post last week as things were a little busy. I have not seen much major news this week, but let me know if there is anything exciting going on with Hive.

Friday Follows

• I met up with @alessandrawhite and @bitterirony last week in London. They were over from Texas and will be back again next year, so we need some more meetups then.
• @mcsamm and @collinz wanted to come to the meetup, but we missed each other. They did get to a big crypto exhibition at the weekend and have posts about it. I went in 2019 with some of the old crowd, some of whom are not active on Hive, but @revisesociology was there.
• @embeyler is looking to revive the Beem Python library for Hive. It has not been maintained in a while, but a lot of people use it, including me.
• @demotruk and @dalz have been producing some interesting statistics about Hive. The trends they show are not too encouraging, but we have a solid core of regular users. We need to grow that.
• @ugochill has been doing some posts featuring musicians on Hive including @ravenmus1c and @ivanc (Black Eye Butterfly). There is some great music here that we should be supporting. Some of it can be bought for crypto.

The Dog House

I know some people enjoy this section of these posts, but I do not always have something to write about. I keep an eye on the Hive-DR Discord for cases that need attention. This week they found this guy. He has churned out ten posts in the last couple of hours with images that look to be machine-generated and the text may be too. Previously he has done single character comments to get votes on. This is adding no value to Hive and deserves no rewards. He is unlikely to make anything and may just be trolling us, but you can downvote it anyway.

The End

The end of the year is fast approaching. Have you met your goals? If you have a post about that then let me know and I will feature some in coming weeks. What are your expectations for 2024? Of course we want Hive to grow, but what are you doing to make that happen?

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