The News

You may have seen that the $STEEM traders got a little excited this week. There was massive volume and the price nearly matched $HIVE, which went up a little. Those gains were soon lost. I expect some people made a profit from that whilst others will have lost. $BTC went up too and that will have shaken up the markets. I have no idea if this is sustainable. For $HIVE I am happy to see a gradual upward trend.

You may have seen that @leofinance has rebranded as InLeo. I believe that posts do not have to be finance related now. That was never the case for their Threads microblog. I use that for quick updates. I also use @ecency Waves as that is easy from their mobile app. Threads seems to have more users.

I am interested to see how the various Hive dapps are doing. SimilarWeb has web stats. Peakd is getting 646k views per month according to them. Some of the other sites get similar numbers. It seems 'the other chain' gets more. I think we need more incoming links to Hive from other platforms to drive traffic here. We should highlight the really high quality posts that may appeal to a wide audience. Personal gain should take second place to building the community.

Friday Follows

• @nuthman has a cool wallet page that gives you precise values of what you hold in real time. You can see the HP going up thanks to the in-built inflation.
• @nahupuku has been through a lot of hard times with illness and injury. He also lives in Venezuela where life can be difficult. He is still motivated to create music. He has built an amazing drum rig and plays with great energy. He just joined the drumming community that I created.
• The new @town-hall witness brings together some long-standing Hivers. They have a livestream coming up that brings a lot of project leaders together.
• @pibara has put out a library that looks useful to those wanting to create a Hive bot. I will see if my @proofofbrian one could use it.

These people get a share of the post rewards.

Meetups

• It is not a crypto event, but I am going to BarCamp London next month. They say it is open to any sort of discussion and tickets are free. It would be good to meet some fellow Hivers there.
• The Hive Blockchain Summit is on Sunday in Caracas, Venezuela.

The End

It is almost November already. I will be doing another #BritList soon. If people want a similar list for their country then I may be able to help.

Have a great weekend and Hive five!

The man behind:

@tenkminnows: Helping good Hivers level up @proofofbrian: A bot that checks for tag typos #BritList: A monthly list of Hivers in the UK