Ask Me Anything - Marky Edition - November 2021

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Have you always wanted to ask me something?
Now is your chance, there won't be another!
(ok, ok, there will)

Hit me up in the comment section with a question and I will do my best to answer it. I post a new AMA post every 2 months or so.

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What is an AMA?

AMA is a format popular on Reddit where one person offers to answer questions for a limited period of time.

How long will I answer questions?

I will usually answer them pretty quickly, and I should be around for a few hours. I will continue to answer them as they come in.

What type of questions can you ask?

I'm open to pretty much anything but my interest fall in the following categories:

  • Hive
  • Hive Witness
  • Crypto
  • Gaming (Video, Board, Crypto)
  • Popping off in Hunt: Showdown
  • Ape Mining Club
  • Photography
  • Development
  • Technology
  • Productivity
  • Movies & TV
  • Comedy
  • Memes
  • Waiting for GPUs to come in stock

Don't feel limited to the above categories, just things I generally know about.

Some updates

  • I am working on a new project I am will be talking about at Hivefest (Nov 12th - 13th).

  • I got accepted into GitHub CoPilot beta and have been playing around with it. It's pretty cool!

  • I'm still waiting for a GPU and refuse to pay scalpers.

  • I recently tried GFuel Ragin' Gummy Fish, it is not what I expected!


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If she wakes up, Kitty will be helping out answering any questions.


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So let's get this shit started!

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Did you watch Halloween Kills yet?
If so... did you think it was as shitty as my girl and I did? We nearly left the theater early last night. The film was ridiculous.

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Good evening

My question refers to a statement, from our Hive whitepaper.

...Additionally, Hive has taken steps to deter and mitigate 51% attacks at the blockchain level through
governance provisions, including delayed voting with any newly-staked HP...

In my opinion, this is not sufficient protection. Why not lower the number of witness votes per account from 30 votes to less than 5 votes?

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This would encourage vote selling and even more vote begging. No one person can massively influence witness votes, not even @blocktrades. You can move someone a few spots, but not take someone from 0 to a top 20.

For example, @blocktrades is one of the largest voters and has around 17.5MVests on his main account. To get someone in the top 20, you need around 105MVests. If someone was to buy that much stake (pretending for a moment it would even be possible with massively raising the price) it would cost around $7.5M USD.

A 51% attack would cost ~$46M in a fantasy land where you can buy that much stake without influencing the market. It would likely cost you 5x that unless you do it over years.

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Thank you for the quick reply.
I also agree so far, as long as it is an attack from outside.
So the limit is around 46 MVests. It will certainly increase over time.
But a 51% attack is already possible even inside the blockchain if few strong accounts participate.
I am aware that Blocktrades will never kick against the community. He has simply invested too much money, work and lifetime in the development of Hive for that.
But just to continue the thought experiment, you need this account.
Example:
Blocktrades owns 17.5 MVests
Freedom owns 23.1 MVests
Results in about 40.6 MVests

If Hive grows in popularity in the near future, then hostile groups could form within this blockchain and the 6 weeks won't help.

That was my thought, but I also trust the top 20 witnesses to avert such an attack.

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$46M USD not 46 mvest. It’s more than double. Also it’s impossible to get $46M of Hive without skyrocketing the price.

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Ok.
My concern was more a look at the development in the Eastern European countries of the EU. (Poland, Hungary)
Previously independent judiciary and press is under the control of the government, by law. This severely restricts the rights and freedom of the country's population.

Hive promises freedom for all thoughts.
I would like to see this remain the case and not be subverted.
46M USD and more is no obstacle for totalitarian states.
I realize that if someone tries to get such sums that the 6 weeks will help. But they don't help if it happens over a longer period of time and many accounts.
The price will surely rise sharply. And we are all happy about it. But I would rather have a hive worth 0.25 USD than to have my freedom restricted.

I think the issue of a hostile takeover, is not relevant at this point. There is no need for further discussion.
I wish you a good day.

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46M USD and more is no obstacle for totalitarian states.

Sure but if someone jacks up the price to $10-50 to buy all that Hive, a lot will be very happy.

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My plan is to collect enough money to buy a sailboat to get out of the financial discrimination, in wich I currently live in. With a sailboat, I would not have to pay rent and regular, monthly bills, which are very high.

The sailboat would be around $1000 USD or $1500 USD.
Or at least I saw people in the USA buying sailboats with these amounts.

I live in Hungary.

Questions:
Can you recommend a website or place, where I can look for cheap and reliable sailboats?

I heard that it is possible to buy a sailboat for €500 EUR. What do you think about this? Would that be worth it?

Thank you for the answers.

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Oh man, I don't have a clue man. I once rode a sailboat when I was a kid in camp and they were goofing off and let go of the sail and the mast spun around and knocked me in the head, nearly drowned.

I find it very hard to believe you can get any decent boat that you can live off for $1,000 USD. You can barely get a Kayak for that price.

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I once rode a sailboat when I was a kid in camp and they were goofing off and let go of the sail and the mast spun around and knocked me in the head, nearly drowned.

A nearly fatal accident. That is a very bad experience. I am sorry that you had to experience that. Hopefully I will not experience anything similar.

I find it very hard to believe you can get any decent boat that you can live off for $1,000 USD. You can barely get a Kayak for that price.

I am thinking about a sailboat up to 20 feet. I know. That is not really a liveaboard, but it would be still better than my current rent financially.

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What do you think of Hive getting to Five before the ending of the first quarter of 2022?

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What are some of your future plans for StemGeeks? I feel like it's one of the more stable tribes out there given the content that gets created. Would you ever consider expanding into STEM videos on 3Speak or DTube?


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What are some of your future plans for StemGeeks?

I think the only real improvement most tribes can do is onboarding. It's the most critical aspect of every tribe and application. That being said, it is really freaking hard to do.

Would you ever consider expanding into STEM videos on 3Speak or DTube?

You can already use these platforms with STEMGeeks.

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In your experience, what makes onboarding so hard?

And how would you describe a successful onboarding? Like just creating an account and doing one or two things, or 'sticking' and somehow interacting some number of times over a period of time?

Thanks for the AMA BTW ;)

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Onboarding is hard because the Internet is an attention economy, and it is very hard (and expensive) to get someone's attention. When we have it, our onboarding process is overwhelming and we have a very big learning curve. It's overwhelming to most. You also have to break through the skeptism. For tribes it can be even harder as you now have to deal with Tribe and Hive and why you need a Hive account for a tribe that looks like a totally different brand.

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What are the crypto projects you're most bullish about in the short, medium and long term respectively

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What is it like to have a cat? I have never had one. I'm a dog person 😬

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I'm a dog person as well, but I have a cat.

Cats are very different from dogs, they don't come when you call them but every cat is different.

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Are you familiar with crypto.com exchange and their DeFi wallet or know someone who is? I have some stablecoin send questions I need help with.

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I am not, sorry.
It is possible I or someone else might know the answer if you want to just ask your question.

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Perfect.

I've never held ETH. I've been practicing swapping for stablecoins lately inside crypto exchange. As you're aware, to send the (in this case) DAI to my DeFi wallet I need ETH for gas. I've never done these things.

Fees fluctuate so I'm curious how much ETH I should hang onto to be comfortable with gas and is it necessary to hold the ETH in the DeFi wallet or on the exchange or both?

Much thanks.

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Is this your work ----> https://hiveengine.usehive.com/
If so will it be coming back online....available for use again?
If not do you know of a tool that can mine the data of the Hive engine chain / wallet for a chosen coin and display, entry prices, amount, averages, totals, price etc???

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Yes it is.

It likely won't be coming back online. There are issues with the Hive Engine API which have been breaking tools and affecting how accurate the data is.

If not do you know of a tool that can mine the data of the Hive engine chain / wallet for a chosen coin and display, entry prices, amount, averages, totals, price etc???

Likely would have to make it yourself.

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Would it come back online if there was a monthly subscription cost?

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It's more that the data isn't accurate and I don't like providing things that are not accurate. I can likely build a solution to fix the problem myself, but that's a lot of work and would require I run my own node and API to make sure it is accurate.

It's something I may consider, but I can't see it being worth the time.

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Fair. Do you know of any recourse to start gathering the data of purchased coins that i could start compiling the desired info?

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I believe the account history API is broken right now and doesn't provide accurate information so you would likely need to walk every block on Hive Engine to build up your state.

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Where does this account history API reside?
HE only provides only a small amount of data in the history...unless i am missing some button that shows more....all.

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Is this new project a game? I vaguely remember you saying that you planned to or wanted to work on a big game, like Splinterlands big. Is that it? If not, do you still have such plans?

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No, not initially at least.

I do have a have a project I want to build at the scale of Splinterlands. I haven’t got out of planning phase for it.

It is a huge project and commitment and there are other things I want to do first. Although I haven’t started coding it, I have done a lot of planning and thinking about it.

This is a project I started specifically for Hivefest.

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Ooh! Kitty! I kinda want to take a nap face down on the keyboard now...

I'm a little late to this party, so I'm going to throw out a question of incredible importance: Do you like cake or pie?

Still waiting for a reasonably priced GPU too btw, hang in there!

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I am not really a cake fan unless it is really good. So pie for sure.

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I hear that a lot about cake, so I totally get the pie preference, but now I’m super curious about what kind of pie?

And I’ll quit badgering you beyond that. I suffer from the whole Kat-curiosity thing lol!

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To be honest, I don't have a lot of pie either. I do make a pumpkin pie that is really popular. I have a list of people who request I make one for them each year. It's pretty unique.

I like stuff like chocolate pudding pie, banana cream, coconut. I do love me Cheese cake, which I'd say is more pie than cake.

I make a really good chocolate cake that I do love. The real difference is adding a cup of boiling water to the mix, makes it extremely moise and fluffy.

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A list! Good gourds that sounds familiar, instead of pies, I’m the cake lady round these parts. My German Chocolate and Apple Pie The Cake are the most popular. I hate dry cake so lots of kitchen chemistry magic is utilized. Although I am making @jacobtothe a dairy free apple pie for his birthday party this Friday, food allergies make everything challenging for sure.

Cheesecake is my favorite! I love pretty much every manifestation of it, in fact, I’ve got some freshly roasted pumpkin lurking in my fridge, I should totally make a pumpkin cheesecake.

Okay seriously, I’m glad you did the AMA, besides all the gazillions of Hive things you do, it sounds like you are a pretty great baker too, (that chocolate cake sounds awesome!)those pumpkin pie recipients are beyond lucky!

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Are there any articles that discuss how the beneficiary process works?

  • If I sent someone as a beneficiary, are they a beneficiary of ALL an article's rewards?
  • Does setting a beneficiary take from the author's rewards or TOTAL article rewards?
  • If posting from a tribe-specific front end, does setting a beneficiary only affect that tribe token's awards?

I've asked a lot of question in this article. Sorry, I couldn't help it.

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Are there any articles that discuss how the beneficiary process works?

Not sure, but I can answer.

If I sent someone as a beneficiary, are they a beneficiary of ALL an article's rewards?

It depends on the percentage set.

Does setting a beneficiary take from the author's rewards or TOTAL article rewards?

It takes all rewards, that's why I commented on the POB post. If you post on proofofbrain.io, it forces your Beneficiary to 10%, this is a Hive operation, so ALL rewards get shared.

If you post off proofofbrain.io, they are changing it to a forced 20% beneficiary (by their words) but this is not a Hive operation, this is a Scotbot (tribe) operation as your keys are not used. So this only shares POB rewards, meaning posting on Proofofbrain.io actually costs you more in the end than even 50% beneficiaries by posting off site.

STEMGeeks has an aggressive 50% reduction of rewards if you do not use STEMGeeks.net, but it never takes any other rewards than STEM. It is purely a Scotbot (Tribe) reduction.

You need to be wary when a Beneficiary is set via a Hive operation as that will take a portion of all your rewards.

If posting from a tribe-specific front end, does setting a beneficiary only affect that tribe token's awards?

Most tribes don't force a benefiary, POB does. I don't think any others do. But other tribes (namely LEO and STEM) take a portion of rewards if you do not post on their front end. This is not a beneficaries operation, this is a Scotbot (tribe) operation that affects their token only. Out of all the tribes, I believe POB is the only one taking beneficaries.

You can see this on https://hiveblocks.com/@proofofbrainio

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I've asked a lot of question in this article. Sorry, I couldn't help it.

No worries.

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I really appreciate the response. I'll just say that I kept searching for the answer and couldn't find any. There's so much depth to this place and there doesn't appear to be a repository of information available.

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Are the top 100 accounts being diluted by the inflation as a whole, or are they maintaining their percentage of the whole?
And the top 10?

At what point does future inflation, say the next 10 years, stop being a significant threat to their oligarchy?
Has it already stopped?

It may become harder to sell the hive if some significant selling doesn't occur out of these accounts.
Who buys into a game they can't compete in?

What do you think of burning flagged rewards?

Congrats on the nft sales.

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Are the top 100 accounts being diluted by the inflation as a whole, or are they maintaining their percentage of the whole?

No idea, I really don't look. I suspect they are doing fine as most of the stake is voting.

And the top 10?

Same as above.

At what point does future inflation, say the next 10 years, stop being a significant threat to their oligarchy?

What oligarchy?

It may become harder to sell the hive if some significant selling doesn't occur out of these accounts.

No one seems to be having any problem selling.

What do you think of burning flagged rewards?

100% disagree. I think any incentive for flagging is a generally a bad thing.

Congrats on the nft sales.

Thanks!

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What oligarchy?

Our stake is configured in a pyramid.
Pyramidal structures beget hierarchies.
Any cooperation between those at the top of the pyramid constitutes an oligarchy.
It's just the way of things in hierarchies.

I prefer a more horizontal distribution, but good luck getting that past the crapitalust indoctrination in most people's minds.

So, specifically, those who's interests lie in a certain circumstance will exhibit similar behaviors even in the absence of actual verbal communication.
Each knows what benefits themselves and act accordingly.

Ergo, to stay in power on oligarchy will form, or those in power will cease to hold power, at some point.

My question is, have we reached the point that the top however many accounts will never change absent wholesale selling by those with the most?
Is there enough inflation left that the current concentration of power will dilute in the next how many years?
Who are those accounts not diluting, by earning enough to stay ahead of the inflation?

I ask because the reputations of our largest holders will impact the rest of us, and there remain some that I think will benefit the hive by selling out.
I'm trying to find mathematical proof of that, but lack the sql skillz to get at it.

Your response here will determine, for me, where you lie on the gradient scale.

Do you favor the current power structure, or would you like to see the current centralized power structure leveled out to where the actuality is that no select few control the coin?

I know it is said that no one person holds more than 1% of the power, but I don't believe that for a second.
People that reset the chain to guarantee themselves 80% of the coins don't relinquish control this easily.
Not when the influx of the masses stands to make trillionaires of them.

It may become harder to sell the hive if some significant selling doesn't occur out of these accounts.

No one seems to be having any problem selling.

Lol, ain't that the truth.
The price keeps dropping.

Not what I meant, though.
What I mean is that the club of folks that can lay down a few billion to bootstrap our coin further may be dissuaded from participating due to the rumor mill.

If hive is to become a top ten coin vetting of who gets rich is certainly gonna take place.

What do you think of burning flagged rewards?

100% disagree. I think any incentive for flagging is a generally a bad thing.

Good to know.
You would rather feed the currently popular than spread the wealth to everybody?

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Our stake is configured in a pyramid.
Pyramidal structures beget hierarchies.
Any cooperation between those at the top of the pyramid constitutes an oligarchy.
It's just the way of things in hierarchies.

I prefer a more horizontal distribution, but good luck getting that past the crapitalust indoctrination in most people's minds.

How is it a pyramid, there will always be people who have more money, who save more money, doesn't spend/sell it all. I'm part of the Oligarchy because I didn't sell every penny I got? Sounds more salty than factual.

You want more "horizontal distribution", buy some Hive, save it. Most people are dumping everything they 'earn' then complaining people have more than them.

How do you think an economy would work if everyone had the same amount and no one was allowed to do more than any one else? I seem to remember an economy that works like this...

Having money is not a sin. I think it is ridiculous to think because some people have more money than you it is an Oligarchy.

I am a bad person or part of some Cabal because I am the 16th largest stake holder?

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How is it a pyramid, there will always be people who have more money, who save more money, doesn't spend/sell it all.

Yes poor people have poor ways, but definitely a pyramid.

I'm part of the Oligarchy because I didn't sell every penny I got?

Maybe, depends on the evidence that gets presented.
The answer could change over time, too.
Rich people have rich ways.

Sounds more salty than factual.

Cheeky, for sure.

You want more "horizontal distribution", buy some Hive, save it.

More accurately I would like a more horizontal distribution of the inflation.
Who has what is not as much a concern, to me, provided we can level the field at some point(preferable sooner rather than later).
If they are not voting stake in excess of XXXkhp, that suits me.
1000mv is a climbable hill.
A not unattainable goal.

The question arising is how many folks are gonna be willing to buy in while doing so makes a select few folks extremely wealthy.
Example, who is gonna buy enough pay tokens to be somebody, while making me a billionaire on paper?

My conclusion, the more level the peaks the more likely somebody buys a mountain.
How many people can afford to buy in to match you, let alone the people taking out the most from the pool?
Who buys in seeing that the game is an endless feeding of the insatiable?
But, were more restraint being shown, perhaps new investors would overlook the disparity in equity.

Most people are dumping everything they 'earn' then complaining people have more than them.

Yeah, they will really cry when they find out that hive is the best investment on the market.
Excepting maybe silver and working farms.

Not a security, not a premine(for all intents and purposes), not an energy hog, 3 second no fee transactions, seriously, people selling now are shooting themselves in the foot, imo.

Were we to set up a cultural norm that one powers up everything until the account has 1mv I think we could put a halt to much of this selling in proportion to the energy put into engineering the more desirable behavior.
Perhaps goals delineated by reputation, ie, a 70 rep account should have several mv.

Getting everybody on the same page would take some effort, but once established, changes to the behaviors should result.
We just need more 'community consensus'.

How do you think an economy would work if everyone had the same amount and no one was allowed to do more than any one else?

You can take 'not allowed to do more' off the table.
Either the ideas sell as a better choice, or they don't get chosen.
No enslavement in my utopia.

Clear example #1.
Clear example #2.
Accedemic treatise #1.
Workers explanation.
Further reading: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Emma's essay, if you read nothing else.
No need to burn books when nobody reads anymore.

Having money is not a sin.

I agree, the sin comes in in how it is used.

I think it is ridiculous to think because some people have more money than you it is an Oligarchy.

Yes, more evidence would be required to conclude such.

I am a bad person or part of some Cabal because I am the 16th largest stake holder?

Not necessarily.
Time will tell.
If we care to devote the attention to finding out.

I'm sure most folks in the upper echelon are doing the best they can, but I'm also sure some are misguided in their attempts at utopia.
I'm not sure all of them care about others enough to be that broadminded.

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