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Being a bee for a month. Some thoughts on Hive ***Hello, awesome people from Read.cash! Good morning and good afternoon depending on where you are. I hope everyone has a great weekend.*** When I wrote my earnings report from last month, I mentioned that I had been posting on Hive and that I would do an article about my impressions there. I must clarify that I'm not an expert in the use of Hive and this isn't intended to be a guide or tutorial on how to use it. But some notes on my experience in recent weeks generating content in Hive. https://read.cash/@CoquiCoin/one-more-month-of-blogging-a-quick-recap-1a5fc87b My beginnings in Hive My first Hive post was in mid-August. I posted about it here and I was able to do it thanks to a user in Noise who kindly helped me by delegating me some HivePower since when I wanted to make my intro post, I didn't even have the resources to do it. This initially shocked me a bit, I didn't understand why in order to make a post I needed to have resources. And at first, I was overwhelmed by the entire operation of content management directly linked to the Hive blockchain. https://read.cash/@CoquiCoin/i-stopped-dizzying-the-partridge-and-posted-in-hive-4f8450f3 Like everything, when you are taken out of what you are used to, you feel a certain apprehension. And Read.cash and Noise.cash are so simple in that sense that Hive can seem complicated at first glance. Blogging platforms are associated with the Hive token blockchain, and they function running resources from the blockchain. For this reason, to obtain more resources, it's needed to put Hive token into stake, which is what is known as the HivePower. Obviously, when we start, we don't have any Hive. For those who are starting, there is a page with a faucet where you can claim some resources every hour, but the most important thing is that you can request the delegation of HP, which is like borrowing without interest. The page often runs out of resources, but with patience at some point, you make it. On the page, you get approx 16 HP delegated for a period of 7 days that you can use to publish while you generate your own resources. The page is giftgiver.site. https://giftgiver.site

So my first weeks at Hive, I was totally lost. I didn't even know where to start. I did a few posts, mostly photos that got nowhere. Until at the beginning of October, when my dear friend @carolinacardoza, who many of you know here in Read, came to rescue me. Carolina guided me in relation to the communities in which it was worth publishing and what I should do to have more visibility using the correct tags. Discovering communities So after her advice, I made the first post in a community that I love called TheWeekend, in which the posts have to do with how their name says it with the weekend. It's a community that greatly encourages participation and engagement. https://peakd.com/hive-168869/@coquicoin/a-night-of-pizza-and-beers-and-some-nightlights-una-noche-de-pizza-y-cervezas-y-algunas-luces-nocturnas As the weeks have passed, I've been discovering other communities related to my tastes. A community dedicated to coffee lovers, Silver Bloggers, and I just discovered, thanks to my friend @gertu13, a gardening community. The contests at Hive One of the things that have helped me move forward at Hive is the contests and the challenges. There are lots of them in the different communities and by putting a little heart into them, we can get some good results, which help us grow our account. Because each Hive that we win is more Hive Power that we can have, and on the other hand, they help us to meet other users. So last month, I participated in an Amazing Nature community contest that I won with a post about nature in Caracas. In the Silver Bloggers community, I was a runner up with the challenge of telling Halloween memories. And one of the contests that I've joined twice is that of Shadow Hunters in the community of the same name. And last week, I was one of the winners with the shadow of my son doing a handstand. I discovered this contest thanks to @ gertu13 who invited me to participate a couple of weeks ago for the first time. https://peakd.com/hive-106316/@coquicoin/sweet-halloween-memories-blog-of-the-week-silverbloggers https://peakd.com/hive-179017/@coquicoin/my-entry-to-the-shadow-hunters-smash-contest-round-191-a-handstands-shadow-la-sombra-de-una-parada-de-manos And these are just some of the many contests that are available each week, so there is something for everyone.

Channels on Discord If something bothers me about Hive, it's the insistence in every community that you join a Discord channel. I don't like Discord. And in general, I'm bad at group chats. And at first, I couldn't understand why they ask to join channels on Discord and don't encourage comments within community posts. But now, seeing how easy it's to run out of resources, especially when you are new, I understand the reason a bit. Who are the curators I'm not going to explain in detail how the reward system works in Hive. But generally speaking, those who vote for your post are called curators and they get 50% of what a post they vote generates, weighted by their voting power. This in turn is related to HP and their reputation within the Blockchain. So obviously when we make a post, we want to draw the attention of a curator with weight within the blockchain, who are also the ones who usually influence the voting of other users with similar interests. Learning about Pegged tokens The Hive ecosystem encompasses many applications, and the ones we use to generate content are just a few of them. When we publish content many times we are earning other tokens. I'm still very lost about it, but yesterday for the first time I entered the Hive Engine and discovered a number of tokens that I've been earning with the content that I published. To say anything about it would be to lie to you, so it's a task to be done and I need to research more about it. As for my goals in Hive, for now, the only one I have is to grow in HivePower. I hope this month I can exceed 100 HP. Of course, my heart is still here in Read.cash. And my priority is to publish here and above all to interact with my readers and read the articles of other users. But if I want to take blogging as an additional source of income, it's good to have more options. If you are in Hive and I don't follow you, leave me a comment with your user to do it and interact a little there too. To you, my dear readers. Thank you so much! Thank you to my wonderful sponsors. You all rock! And today especially thanks to @carolinacardoza that besides being my guide in Hive is my new sponsor here. Thanks with all my heart! **All images and writing are my own unless otherwise stated.** © **CoquiCoin**   You can find me also at ****Noise.Cash**** **⊛** ****Hive**** **⊛** ****Torum**** **⊛** ****Twitter**** https://noise.cash/u/CoquiCoin https://peakd.com/@coquicoin https://www.torum.com/signup?referral_code=coquicoin https://twitter.com/CoquiCoin Until next time! ;) November 6, 2021

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