Week through Adrian's Lenses (20-26 February 2023)

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This is a very dense week in news, so I'll get right on it.

Week on Hive

CPTX.io Was Launched This Week

CTPX, another content discovery and promotion website tied with the Hive ecosystem was launched by the CTP team this week. This is their launch podcast.

Leofinance Alpha - Week 2 After Launch

The new open alpha UI for Leofinance, also referred to as Project Blank in the past, or Threads 2.0, was launched last week.

Engagement went through the roof and is still going strong. In a post or a #thread, Khal (@khaleelkazi) let us know that Threads (both from the main website and from the alpha website) is now responsible for roughly 10% of all recent comments on Hive.

A number of updates, fixes and future features not yet rolled out (polls?) were presented to us this week:

GOSH for Threads

GOSH is for Threads what POSH is for Twitter. Here are the details.

Splinterlands Updates

Splinterlands came out this week with a number of - let's say - smaller but important, updates.

Psyber-X is Now Free to Play

Psyber-X came out with a post announcing the game is currently free to play:
https://peakd.com/hive-168109/@psyberx/psyber-x-is-now-free-to-play

You also should not miss @bobthebuilder2 on CTT in a discussion with @starkerz:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@spknetwork.chat/iebvmstn

Ragnarok Presentation and Testing Call-to-Action

@theycallmedan presented Ragnarok at the stage it is now (by sharing his screen while playing), and asks for more hands to test it to isolate a few hard-to-reproduce bugs.

New Shop Accepting Exclusively HIVE & HBD

A new shop with delivery all over the world (according to the site) was launched. It accepts only HIVE, SWAP.HIVE and HBD as payment, and it was launched by someone who has been on HIVE for 5 years and still active, probably German. Task had a look at the personal account too.

Week in the Cryptocurrency World

Coinbase Launches its Own Layer-2 Network

Its name will be Base and will run on Ethereum at the base layer. The layer-2 will be centralized and fully under Coinbase control, even though the advertisement is that it will facilitate the development of decentralized apps:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-launches-its-own-ethereum-layer-2-network-for-building-decentralized-apps

Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists

Tokenization is catching on and big companies are toying with them. Here's Spotify trying to create a sort of subscription based on NFTs:
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/23/spotify-is-testing-token-enabled-music-playlists/

Banks May Still Service Crypto

The Fed, FDIC, and OCC have created no new risk management principles for banks dealing with crypto companies: servicing the crypto industry is neither illegal nor discouraged.
https://cryptopotato.com/banks-are-still-allowed-to-service-the-crypto-industry-clarifies-federal-reserve/

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Thanks for pointing out all the new stuff happening in the Hive ecosystem.
!PIZZA

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Not ALL! Only what I am aware of... :)

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It has been a very busy week on Hive! I will be referring back to this post several times. Great update, @gadrian!
!ALIVE
!BBH
!CTP

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Yes, it has been a busy week. I almost lost track of the updates. :)

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They seem to get busier too If I don't use the Start My Day feature in Simpleology I will forget stuff. I spent a large portion of the day yesterday getting ready for our tax preparation appointment this morning.
And I'll be working on my offline job for three days this week.
Have a great day😀

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So, does it work for you Simpleology? I haven't tried it.

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Hello, @gadrian!
I use the free version and I am able to have a list of recurring tasks that I add to my daily Start My Day brainstorm.
That's where I list all the tasks I want to do for the day.
I tried the upgraded version for a few months here and there but didn't really feel the need for it.
Right now I am good with the free features.
Thanks for asking.
!ALIVE
!BBH
!CTP

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@gadrian! You Are Alive so I just staked 0.1 $ALIVE to your account on behalf of @lisamgentile1961. (1/10)

The tip has been paid for by the We Are Alive Tribe through the earnings on @alive.chat, feel free to swing by our daily chat any time you want.

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Thanks for the info! Maybe I'll take a look at it, although I am quite organized. But I'd appreciate a boost in productivity.

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Thanks for highlighting the show. We have so many great things planned for all of Hive. Keep an eye peeled for what comes out on the account @psyberx

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Glad to do it! Seems like you have some great plans ahead. Looking forward to more news coming from you guys.

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Within the last week we have seen a new link to leo finance which is a very good thing. The biggest advantage of this link is that this app is now much faster and people can easily reply and comment. Thanks for sharing this informative Knowledge with us.

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Absolutely! Threads on Leofinance Alpha is much faster and overall an enhanced version of Threads on the main website,

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Nice summary! have a great week ahead!

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Thank you! A great week for you too!

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That's a nice HIVE shop that you shared! I hope we will see more of those with more and more different products!

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Thanks! I saw it first promoted on #threads before it launched. Then I saw it in Task's post after launch and took a look by myself. It's great they have access to a worldwide distribution.

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Awesome update, Adrian.

Thanks for keeping us up to date on the Hive world and beyond.

!CTP
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Thanks, John!

I have two purposes with these weekly recaps. One is to inform others and the other is to stay informed myself.

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There was a ton of things happening over on Hive. I am a bit surprised to see everything that happened over the past week and I didn't realize that Spotify was trying to use tokens for playlists.

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I didn't realize that Spotify was trying to use tokens for playlists

Me neither. I just saw the news yesterday.

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