The News

This morning I saw messages popping up in my Ecency Decks Waves feed about a fake airdrop in the @leofinance Discord.

I had a look and found this in the announcements, apparently from an established member of the community. It looks like his Discord account was hacked and that is very worrying when it happens to a channel admin. I did not click the link, but it seems the site actually used Ethereum wallets. The mention of 'eth/gas' should raise suspicions as those are irrelevant to $LEO.

This hacked account was assisting people in logging in so they could be ripped off. I caught this message that was swiftly deleted by the crooks. Many people were kicked from the channel. I did DM some people who were chatting there to alert them. I expect others did the same. Other channels put up warnings. I might have expected to see more posts about this on Hive. I shared one I found to get the word out. If you see something like this with no posts from the project then you should be suspicious. There are genuine airdrops, but those will be well advertised and there will probably be conditions. If it looks like you need to dash to get some then it may be dodgy. Greed can be costly.

According to @ssebasv around $1300 of funds were taken before the channel shut down.

@bozz had some thoughts on how this could damage the reputation of the project. There will be some bad feeling from those who lost funds. @taskmaster4450 wonders if people will look to using Web3 alternatives for such discussion as they are more secure, but will they give up on the big platforms?

I ran my usual price check using @coingecko, looking back 90 days this time. $HIVE is falling gradually, but not drastically. Yesterday's #HPUD may make little difference to that as it will take $millions of trading to shift it significantly.

Friday Follows

• The big news this week was the announcement of @hivefest 2023, which will be in Mexico in September. I may not get to that, but it could suit those in the Americas. I am sure it will be a fun event as the others have been.
• @beautifulbullies has been combining her favourite topics of photograph and bulldogs with some lovely puppy photos.
• @blocktunes are doing great stuff with building options for musicians on Hive.
• Congratulations to artists @silviabeneforti and @paolobeneforti on the wedding of their daughter @noemilunastorta. I love that it had a David Bowie theme.
• @thetroublenotes have a new album out. Give it a listen and let them know what you think.

Those mentioned get a share of the post rewards.

Communities

• I would like to get an electric car and Hive has a place for those.
• The urban exploration community is popular for those who like to investigate abandoned buildings.

Hive Sites

• There are various ways to see what transactions are on the Hive blockchain, but Hive is Beautiful is one of the most fun. You see a group of circle appear for each block with an indication of what they are for. Splinterlands and Hive-Engine dominate, but there are lots of others dapps.
• HiveSQL allows you to run database queries on the Hive data. You can use it to generate charts or just to find users.
• HiveStats gives you lots of details of an account.

The End

I will be generating the latest #BritList tomorrow and I hope to see the numbers improve. It only needs one comment or vote for an account to be shown as active on there, so give your friends a nudge to log on. Even if they are not using their accounts they could set up automatic votes to earn something.

Have a great weekend.

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