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By: @smooms
EDITORIAL
We may be late with HiQ №28, but we are still stylish. Because even in such difficult times, when we are worried about topics (Editor's note: and writers), we have to remain consistent.
So also in this issue, fresh and uncut, our MVP of Hearts. Who is it? Just read on. There you will find out what "they" call him. He is definitely a worthy MVP.
Things are heating up again in the column. @quekery's blood pressure was raised by the diesel pools. Find out what made his blood boil in his unique column about APRs and brown pens that are already painting.
But we also went beyond our comfort zone when it came to the cover topics and shook the hottest shit out of our sleeves for you. (Editor's note: Practically shook. That was a lot of work. LOOL) On the one hand, we have for you the prequel to the (at least for us) long-awaited CraftInk story. It is entitled CraftInk - The Beninging and the first chapter can only be read here.
But something else has also secretly sprung up in one of our basements. The Hive Shop, where many are already happy about the fact that you can't pay with FIAT. You can read all about this wonderful project of the heart, where only one person worked on it independently (Editor's note: after all, you have to get something done on your own, right?) here.
Last but not least, our top-secret secret-weapons-reporter @solymi (Editor's note: You know. The weird guy who always does our @hiq.smartcast's. LOOL) agreed to write an Apps&Tools article for HiQ about LeoThreads. But it was so massive and comprehensive that it made it straight to the cover. A masterpiece of editorial art. Check it out.
But we've also got something great for our money-saving friends on Hive. The Saturday Savers Club, into whose elite circles our English proofreader @tengolotodo has gone and even written a detailed report about it. Directly in English. (Note from. @smooms: Great, then no one needs to deepl it in English anymore). So if you want to profit from his insider knowledge, just read on.
In this issue, @themyscira has also outdone herself and shed light on the Hive Book Club for us (but mainly for you). In @themyscira's Community Report, you can find out exclusively about the sweeter advantages of this stylish community.
But last but not least, the standard stuff should not be missing. In this issue, we have packed the sickest gossip and the most stylish hivestyle for you in the categories Gossip and Hivestyle for Hivians. The whole thing is then spiced up with a pinch of Readers' Letters and off we go to party. Ah and speaking of party...
Who wouldn't celebrate getting 1/4 HIQS at a super mega special price in the Commentary Discount Sale? For March, the first sale with a 40% discount on the current HIVE price of HIQS (Editor's note: 0.499 SWAP.HIVE). That means you can buy up to 270 HIQS for the price of 0.3 per HIQS. Just write
!HIQS HereYourDesiredAmount
in the comments. After 2 days, we will publish a post at @hiq.shares handling the sale.
PS: Vote HiQs Witness. Now. LOOL!
Peace out and have fun. ★
TABLE OF CONTENTS
➀ HiQs MVP - @theycallmedan ➁ The Column - Stress Level: Over 9000
Titelthema ➂ CraftInk - The Beninging ➃ New Shop On The Block ➄ Leofinance's firstborn
Community ➅ Saturday Savers Club ➆ Hive Book Club - Reading pays off
Hivestyle ➇ Gossip ➈ Hivestyle for Hivians ➉ Readers' letters ★
By: @smooms
➀ HiQs MVP
What do you call him again? Whoa. Wait a minute. After the teaser, I'm sure it'll come back to us. Ah we got it. @theycallmedan. This rascal makes it to MVP this time.
This first-class Hivian has been on our radar for a long time. As co-founder of 3speak.tv, he's no stranger to Hive, and you get to hear a lot about him on Hive. In keeping with the topics of this issue, for example, at LeoThreads, where he is already diligently tweeting his threads. Or threading? Be that as it may. He's definitely already using it. We think that's great.
He is also currently building his own side chain with the SPK network. Ashes on our heads... our MVP editor is unfortunately not as deep in the subject as he should be. That's a pay cut and a week of bread and water. (Note from @smooms: Too bad. 0/2 is still 0. LOOL) If you want to read up on the topic, we have an article in issue №25, where we go into the details.
We can also attest to the involvement in Ragnarok from dead certain sources. Anyone who likes games is basically already sympathetic to us anyway. Hopefully we can also welcome him as player number 1 at CraftInk at some point. ★
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By: @quekery
➁ THE COLUMN
Join @quekery on his journey through stress level 27384-9000. Will he survive this stress level? Or will he destroy his work laptop in the process?
Does this happen to you? You want to do something important, like writing articles for the HiQ, and then a "catastrophe" happens that occupies you so much that you can no longer do your actually important task (Editor's note: writing articles for the HiQ ...)?
Sure, I'm no stranger to procrastination (Editor's note: and the rest of the gang, LOOL), but all the work on projects takes a lot out of me and my schedule is very tight. As Paul would say now, "Ultra busy!"
Be that as it may. At the weekend, I firmly resolved to start the core work on the HiQ. (Editor's note: A very early one...) After I had had my first half cup of Käffsch, the next routine came after a fluff - checking our Discord, our markets and our diesel pools. A look at our Swap Alert channel gave me the first "shock". Fortunately, I didn't manage to spread my generous sip of Käffsch over the laptop just yet. The reason? A big swap through the SWAP.HIVE:INK pool, in the unfavourable direction for us. "Ok, don't panic, first check the pool on your favourite pool site Beeswap."
But after what I saw it was almost heroic that I didn't unload a sip of Käffsch on my laptop. Our pool APR was down to 27.384% and the rewards were down to 79 dollars;. OMG, good thing I don't have a heart condition. Otherwise I don't think there would have ever been an article for the HiQ. "Maybe I don't have a clear view yet either due to morning ambiguity. Liquidity was much higher too, wasn't it? What's going on there?"
At stress level 27384, I first wrote to various people. Unfortunately, there were no responses. I was about to ask in the HE chat whether I had encountered a technical error. Then I did some calculations. How are the APR and the rewards from Beeswap calculated?
It's not the pool price, because otherwise the rewards would not have been 79 dollars, but almost 600 dollars. And it would be obvious to use the pool price on a pool front end...
In addition, if you swap your tokens, you also get rid of them for the pool price. (Editor's note: Apart from the 0.25 % fee and the slippage.) "Is it then the Hive Engine market price that Hive Engine, PeakD and Tribaldex also display in the wallet?" It wasn't that one either. Otherwise the rewards would have been worth almost 600 dollars; .... I was repeating myself. LOOL
The price displayed by the various HE wallets is also calculated by the last trades. That would be obvious if Beeswap took that. But in my opinion, the last trades are also worse than simply taking the ██████ pool price. Just because some trade was made doesn't mean there is market depth. It is also easy to manipulate the HE Wallet price. I have been a multimillionaire several times in my five-year hive career.
Yes, how does Beeswap do it now? It simply takes the current highest buy order. Without time reference. No average. No median. No whatever. I still can't believe it. And it's not like you can't manipulate this too. Make a token with no market depth, set a high buy order and add that token to a pool as a reward....
Well done ... ★
By: @smooms
➂ COVER STORY
The never-ending YKWCWMillu was yesterday. But even in today's world, a story is needed. Are we from HiQ going to make Hivestory? Or will it be something like EHON again?
Soon the time will come. CraftInk will release the first booster packs. (Editor's note: For more details, please refer to the account @craftink.) But how did the HiQ team get involved in the crypto game business in the first place? Here is the beginning of the story: "CraftInk - The Beninging". That's about how it all happened, I guess. (Disclaimer: Characters that might in any way resemble existing Hivians are pure coincidence.)
Chapter 1
HiQuarters - Today
"Finally our own office!" said Mary as she inspected the individual workstations, to which Queker replied: "About time. That was really exhausting, managing all the staff via Discord. That was always a rollercoaster of emotions on the last Wednesday to actually bang out an issue." He threw his core team buddies Mary and smooms a satisfied grin. smooms had already chosen a workstation where he sat and wrote his article for the upcoming issue. A fan fiction, it seemed. "Have you guys picked a spot yet?" smooms shouted over to the other two. "I wanted to go to the basement first and clean out all the shit the previous owner left behind," Queker replied. The previous owner was a strange guy who used the warehouse that the HiQ core team now used as office space for random stuff. No one knew what was going on. The residents who lived in the houses around the building often claimed to have heard loud noises. The strange guy was scary to them, so they never bothered with him and nobody knew what he was doing.
"The three of us should go and see if there's any stuff we can use, and for the rest we'll send for a skip and get rid of it," said smooms. "If there's nice hardware, it's mine. LOOL" The three of them went to the basement. The building, which had a floor area of about 420 square metres, had another basement that size. It stretched through 13 rooms. One could easily stand, but the doors were too low to get through standing upright. All the doors seemed to be made of white painted metal. Except one. The three of them were particularly fond of that one. It was made of dark wood, almost like a portal to another world. It seemed almost out of place. The door frame was decorated with blotch patterns that were engraved into the wood. The three had to find out what was behind it. "I've got a crowbar here. For shizzle." smooms said, and before the others could guess what smooms was going to do with it, he was already jamming the crowbar into the door. He levered it about two and a half times and the door gave its first crack. The three were silent. But the silence was broken by the sound of drums that seemed to come through the small gap left by the crowbar between the door and the door frame. Mary felt queasy. "Should we really go in there?" she asked. Her question was justified, because Queker and smooms were also uneasy about it, but curiosity won out. smooms gave the crowbar another jerk and with a BLAM the door burst open.
The drumming stopped and the three looked into a room that seemed to be completely empty except for a medium-sized stone chest. The walls were scrawled with the same blotchy symbol as was engraved on the door frame, and in between they could make out some strange-looking writings. They were not in Unicode Transformation Format, however. The stone chest looked like a huge block of stone with a stone slab on top. Queker took a step towards the chest and said, "Mmmmh?! Let's try pushing this thing open." All three grabbed hold and tried to push the slab and thus open the chest. But as much as they put their weight into the slab.... No luck... It was like the slab was welded in place. The three now examined the slab more closely. Was there a locking mechanism that prevented the chest from being opened? Most certainly.
Even though the chest itself was a perfect cuboid, the lid was decorated. On it, almost 3 dimensional, was a picture. It showed something that looked almost like a ghost. It seemed to float, for it had neither feet nor legs, and under its hood it had no recognisable face but only a void. Above it, written in squiggly letters on a parchment, was the following word:
I̴͜͡Ņ̷̛Ķ̸̛u҈̢͒͡b҉̡̃̕u̴̧͡s҉̢̛̏
Relatively centrally, at the lower edge of the slab, there was an elevation where the blot symbol was again embedded in the stone. Although the rock chest was completely clean, there seemed to be a little dirt in this spot. Mary had to touch the dirty spot. She smeared the spot with her finger, bringing the contaminated finger closer to her eye to better analyse the dirt. "Hmmm. That's ink!" she stated proudly. Why was there ink on the chest? A blot symbol smeared with ink. "As if you had to pour ink on it to get it open..." Queker remarked. "This isn't a fantasy novel. This is real life." - "Let's do it anyway," smooms said. "I'd say we'll do it, too." Mary's statement was decisive at that moment. From above, the three of them fetched an ink cartridge, stabbed the ball to let the ink drip out of the cartridge onto the stone, to be precise, onto the blob symbol. Against all expectations, the chest began to shake. The shaking of the chest extended throughout the room in which the three were standing, dust swirled up and the stone slab, which had previously sat rock solid on the stone block, slowly swung open.
When the quake stopped and the three of them got up again, they looked towards the chest, then at each other. "Queker, you look inside AAAAAAH!" smooms gloated, because according to unwritten HiQ law he was now exempt from the duty of being the first to look inside the chest. "Let three of us go there. In case something will jump out at us. That's enough paranormal activity for me for one day." The three walked towards the chest. From a distance they saw 3 stone slabs with something engraved on them lying side by side in the chest. As they walked towards the slabs and when they were within reach they could make out the motifs on the slabs. Almost simultaneously, the colour drained from the faces of the three.
On the stone slabs, the three caught sight of images of themselves.
smooms was the first to speak: "What's going on here?" he asked the other two. "Somebody must be having a laugh." said Mary. "How did these slabs get here?" asked Queker. The drumming noise started again. But louder this time, as it was no longer muffled by the door. It was coming from the slabs themselves. As if spellbound, the three walked towards the slabs, hands outstretched. At the same time, their hands touched their respective stone slab portraits. Then only a feeling as if their minds were being separated from their bodies. And everything went black. ★
By: @mary-me
➃ COVER STORY
Where do you buy your Hive Merch? We'll tell you: In the future at hive-shop.io! Even we will squander our hard-earned HIVE there. We shit you not. LOOL
A week ago, the account @hive-shop dropped its first post and set the whole chain abuzz. Hive Shop is a print on demand dropshipping store where you can buy Hive merchandise exclusively with HIVE, HBD and SWAP.HIVE.
Who is behind it
After the print HiQs sold very poorly, @mary-me thought about how to increase sales. The plan was to make a small online shop where you can order the print HiQs with just a few clicks. The plan matured over a few weeks and the result was a fully-fledged Hive online shop.
Technical challenges
@mary-me worked on it almost around the clock for the last three weeks. With technical support from @smooms, a backup only had to be made once because @mary-me crashed the database when installing a plugin. Apparently the CMS doesn't get along so well with Privex, which led to small errors again and again. But now everything runs smoothly and the shop is finished.
Another unexpected challenge was setting up the SMTP mail server with its own domain. @mary-me really wanted to use Protonmail, but unfortunately Protonmail does not YET offer this service, which means that the order confirmations and all other automated mails are now sent from no_reply@women-at-work.org (LOOL) and not from noreply@hive-shop.io as intended, which is a great pity. But as soon as Protonmail activates the service, this will also be implemented.
Payment
Setting up the payment system was easier than expected and is child's play with @hivepay-io. In the settings of the HivePay plugin, you enter the tokens you want to accept, the Hive username to which the payments should go, in this case @cashdesk, and that's it. In addition, it will also be possible to pay by manual token transfer in the future. It will then be checked manually whether the payment has been received and only then will the order be released and forwarded. There are no costs for the manual transfer, but with HivePay there are 0.5 % fees.
After clicking on "Place Order", a selection window opens. Select the desired token and confirm the payment via keychain.
Here you can see the transactions on the chain. @hivepay-io takes the payment, deducts 0.5% and sends the amount to @cashdesk.
(The amounts are different because the screenshots are from different test orders.)
Print HiQ Order
So how can you order one of the much sought-after print HiQs? It's very simple. Select the item, place it in your shopping cart, click on Checkout, enter your name and address and click on Place Order. (If you order more items, you will receive two separate shipments, as the print HiQ will be shipped directly from us.)
Cool, isn't it? So, if you don't have a Hive T-shirt yet or have always wanted a Hive mug, you should definitely keep an eye on the account @hive-shop. The grand opening ceremony is currently where you can get -10% off everything. There is also a competition where one lucky winner will get to choose a t-shirt of their choice and also get a voucher for -20% off their first order.
We are curious to see how the shop is received and