It's been a long year since our last blog update, but rest assured that in the background @crimsonclad has been busting her ass working hard on everything HIVE. She's usually the one that people see out and about, and I do a lot of the work in the background that needs to get done with managing the books and other less fun tasks.
I am so proud and thankful for the way we transitioned to HIVE and are growing with a very solid foundation!
Now, since we've not had a update for so long and because it's usually me that does the updates, you do deserve some details about this time period. Since you guys count on us to keep chain running and we've been doing it more quietly than usual, I thought I would share that I've had some personal issues this past year and thank goodness I have crimmy as a witness partner and friend.
Last June (2020) My wife left me and emptied all my bank accounts which hurt me pretty bad financially and mentally. Then, to start off 2021 I was involved in a pretty bad vehicle accident that wasn't my fault and had to undergo a few surgeries and lots of rehab. I was also on tons of prescribed painkillers. Now, I have never in my life been addicted to anything but caffeine and nicotine. But I am not gonna lie, after taking the prescribed painkillers for 2 months straight,I started noticing I was taking more than I was supposed to because of how good mentally and physically they made me feel. I finally forced myself to stop taking them and asked doctor to prescribe me non-narcotic painkillers like Tramadol..etc..etc... And after few weeks I was fine with tylenol and ibroprofen :)
I'm sharing this with you guys as a reminder that we're all human, and that as important as Hive is to our lives, there are going to be things that come up that will take your attention. No one can do it all alone, and this is why our community is so important.
It has been a challenging year for so many people, and it's been no different for me. Now I am back with crimmy helping on the visible side of things again and updating our Followbtcnews blog.
With that out of the way, on to the super positive stuff!
Just quick reminder about Followbtcnews nodes and a few of our contributions to the chain:
We run a main witness node with a fully provisioned second node for backup (both 64G DDR4 RAM 4x 1TB NVMe SSD) that have been recently updated as the chain continues to grow
We also run a public rpc node at api.followbtcnews.com
We pay the monthly server costs for the awesome chain connected chat client that @gtg has built and continually improves at https://openhive.chat/ . If you've never checked it out, you should definitely go get to know some of your fellow community members!
Over the course of this year, outside of doing a lot of developer outreach, exchange coordination, Hive "official" comms, creating Hive live streams, helping manage community servers and gathering places, crimmy has also done a lot of public appearances related to Hive and helped run some AMAs, big and small, with a couple more scheduled for the near future. If you'd like to catch up with some of these, here are a selection of a few events:
She's also hosted some interviews with Dapps and devs in our ecosystem on her own radio shows/livestreams where she often focuses on Hive, philosophy and tech teaching. Just a few of those can be found below:
CyberBuzz Radio : Community Q&A For the Upcoming Hive Blockchain Hardfork 25
CyberBuzz Radio: Aureal AMA - a Beautiful dApp for Podcasts with Blockchain/Crypto Social Features
CyberBuzz Radio: LeoFinance AMA with khaleelkazi and nealmcspadden - DeFi, BSC, Hive & Beyond
CyberBuzz Radio - VR, AR & DeFi: A Live Chat with dlux about Decentralized, Limitless Experiences
CyberBuzz Radio: HaveYouBeenHere, PinMapple & BuyMeBerri.es are Blockchain Dreams for Creators!
Finally, one of the big projects aside from being part of the PALnet crew is @NFTshowroom. Crim is one of the developers and core team working on Hive's rare art marketplace, and has done two talks at Hivefest 5 & 6 on *Digital Art in an Interconnected Ecosystem* which you can see below:
If you have suggestions for things that can make Hive better, exchange connections, developer outreach needs, or opportunities to educate, we want to hear them. We've put a lot of time, effort, and love into trying to create an ecosystem full of great projects and we're always willing to help if you need it.
Myself FollowBtcNews#0360 and crimsonclad#6006 are always available in Discord if you would like to contact us for any questions or just to say Hi!
Welcome back @followbtcnews!
Thanks acidyo Its great to be back man I really really missed everyone You can expect to see me alot like the ole days. I tell you one thing though. I a, lucky to have @crimsonclad as a witness partner and friend
Theres secret stuff going on with wizards of the coast and @mediaempire and @telosnetwork and hive gaming and stuff .
Glad to see you back, sorry about your troubles.
You back in good health?
Hey buddy, Good to hear from ya.. Yes my health is back to 99.9% :) Mentally and Physically..lol I have missed everyone tremendously
Hey man, thanks for all you do! While, I have never been married I certainly have felt the wrath of a woman scorned. This world in general went from being a vampire to a ravaging World war Z zombie. It is brutal. Sometimes the hits just keep on coming and the world just keeps on spinning somehow. Luckily, there is people we can lean on like @crimsonclad and in this community we can escape to.
How is your recovery going? I am sure you have heard of kratom, my friends in Vegas all had to switch to that once Pharma pills were better regulated🤣, Vegas kids I tellz ya! Pain killers held me back from a MCL and ACL reconstruction surgery after a color blind kid on my American football team blew it out Junior year on a Kickoff. Recovering is a bitch with these crazy pills they have. Float tanks and neurofeedback therapy might be very helpful if you look into that. Personally, I have found most water to cause inflammation but I live in Vegas. After finding and using Kangen water, my shoe size and hat decrease by one size and I slept so much better. Just somethings.
While, I do not have much to be thankful for, I can look to all your hard work and especially the work by Crim and everyone with PAL that has found myself often stepping back and being extremely thankful for my investment with Hive.
I appreciate your vulnerable post here with your honesty, Thank you. This was a cool post to read!
Happy Thanksgiving!
You've had a tough year but glad to see you're coming out the other end stronger. Thank you for all you and @crimsonclad do, it's greatly appreciated.
Welcome back.
Welcome back
Welcome back :)
Congratulations, good luck, we are with you.
Welcome back
Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, we still going to need to see a pic of you in a dress! 👗
ohh lordy.. Daggonit I was kind of hoping you forgot :)
Welcome back!
BTW, you should update your witness HBD APR to something, that has sense.
10-12-20%
I agree 100% and we will,, Crimmy and I have discussed it and listened to the community and we will be raising our APR for HBD
Welcome back.
Thanks for this post, I learned somethings here.
Good to see you again after those tough days.
You are highly welcomed boss
Forget the nodes and some new updates that you're finally back. But damn, are you sure you're really fine this time? Left alone and even emptied your back. It hurts so much for sure even though it has passed already?
I hope you're doing really fine and thank you for the updates. Be safe.
I am SO SORRY
this sounds like an extremely rough year. Hopefully this just gets better and better, each day, from here on out.
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Thanks for this post, I learned somethings here.
Awesome! An UPdate from you guys! Bookmarked for further reading! Thank you you guys! 🙌