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By: @smooms
EDITORIAL
Sometimes you don't have any luck, but then bad luck comes along. That's exactly what happened to some of our editors this time, which delayed the release. But what lasts long and all that, eh?
And yet here we are again, starting our new issue fresh and lively with familiar categories. First and foremost of course, with the MVP, with which we have made a great catch this time, we would like to think so anyway.
Many of you probably already know what comes next. This category has become an indispensable part of HiQ. We are talking about "THE column". In this issue, our editor, @mary-me, who is popular with the entire editorial team, dealt with the summer slump while trying not to sink into it herself. Mission accomplished, danger averted and article published.
As our first cover story, we present to you the continuation of the CraftInk Lore. The Beninging is now over. What comes next will be unsurpassed in epicness. We don't want to anticipate too much, so you'd best read it for yourselves. Will be naisu.
The second cover topic is SlothBuzz, the smoking sloth. What sloths have to do with Marie and Johanna will certainly be revealed in this article. (Editor's note: Maybe not, but still no less worth reading. So what are you waiting for?)
Things are also heating up in the Apps & Tools section, for which we have to go back a bit in history. We once had a strange editor at HiQ who always wanted a Holo Deck. It's difficult, but both are available separately. There are CraftInk Holos and Ecency Decks. We report on the latter in this issue. Awesome? Awesome!
But let's digress into the wide world of Web 2. and To Twitter, to be precise. There's something fine there, too. How could this be interesting for Hive? That's what we asked ourselves and researched it for you. You can read about the results in this issue.
But there's no stopping there folks, WHOOP. Because we dug up some treasures - Treasures of Europe, so to speak. We sent our temporary intern community officer to the Treasures of Europe community for you and she came back too. Luckily she did because she brought back a solid article for this issue.
Our temporary trainee community representative was then given another ~~not so~~ secret mission. In this mission, she scoured the forests and came across the Hive Memorial Forest. You can find out what's going on in this forest in an exclusive report here.
The end of the issue is as you would expect: last month's gossip garnished with a pinch of Hivestyle for Hivians. Of course, the letters to the editor full of lyrical effusions from our readers must not be missing. But what must also not be missing is our...
... because what you should also definitely do is fomo into the Commentary Discount Sale 2/4. With a discount of 30% on the current HIVE price of HIQS (Editor's note: 0.511 SWAP.HIVE). That means you can buy up to 270 HIQS for the price of 0.358 per HIQS. Write the following
!HIQS HereYourDesiredAmount
in the comments. After 2 days, we will publish a post at @hiq.shares handling the sale. By the way, if the demand is high enough, we will increase the amount of HIQS to 540 HIQS, so that English-speaking and German-speaking readers can get their HIQS. We've done that before from time to time, but hardly anyone noticed. LOOL
PS: Vote HiQs Witness. Now. LOOL!
Buy CraftInk Packs and now have fun reading on! ★
TABLE OF CONTENTS
➀ HiQs MVP - @enginewitty ➁ The Column - Summer slump - but we stay
Cover Story ➂ CraftInk Lore - "CraftInk Championship Tournament" ➃ Sloth & Doobie merged
Apps & Tools ➄ Ecency Decks - Killer App?
Community ➅ HiveChat on Twitter ➆ Treasures of Europe ➇ Hive Memorial Forest
Hivestyle ➈ Gossip ➉ Hivestyle for Hivians ➀➀ Readers' letters ★
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By: @smooms
➀ HiQs MVP
"Pimp my Blockchain!". That's certainly what this month's MVP thought. Most Valued Poster? Read for yourself what else MVP stands for in this issue.
This user on Hive caught our eye not only as a fan and supporter. We were also taken with his projects. His token on Hive Engine is worthy of its name. But it is not only the token that is pimped.
On his Discord Server he regularly organises meetings where users can present their projects. He also made this stage available to us because he thinks we're so awesome. @enginewitty is definitely our Most Valued Pimp.
But also as a CraftInk Fomoist from the first minute, he is officially the first Hivian with a complete collection of CraftInk cards. Now all that's left for him is to get all the Holo cards. We wish him every success and keep on pimpin'.★
By: @mary-me
➁ THE COLUMN
Even if we go out in between to ~~smoke~~ touch grass, we are still the baddest FOMOists. The summer slump is omnipresent - but what is it really?
The term "summer slump" describes a period of time when there is less news or events, typically during the summer months. The summer slump results from the fact that many people go on holiday or otherwise relax.
After the pandemic madness, this is the first summer when people are going out again without sparing a second thought. It's not only the gastronomy industry noticing this, but also the internet. German-language Youtubers have recorded 40 % fewer views in recent weeks. Accordingly, there is very little happening on Hive.
In addition, crypto prices are also in a slump, which always results in little interest in the topic. Currently we are experiencing the complete opposite of a hype, which shows quite well who is really behind Hive and who is only there because of FOMO, LOOL.
Nevertheless, even the basement kids, who otherwise only hang out on the net, should go out and soak up some sun. When, if not now? This hiatus in cryptospace offers an opportunity to deal with topics that are otherwise often overshadowed.
The summer slump can encourage us to awaken our curiosity and pursue new interests, whether it's reading an inspiring book, discovering music or exploring hobbies you've always wanted to try. Instead of looking at the summer slump as an empty void, we could use it as an opportunity to broaden our horizons and develop ourselves.
So, enjoy the time until the next bull run - it will be stressful enough. Go out, meet friends and discover new things to be prepared for a time that won't be so relaxed. (Editor's note: And it will come for sure. At the latest when we produce the print edition for HiveFest8. LOOL) ★
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By: @smooms
➂ COVER STORY
CraftInk - The game of the ancient Maya. Delivered by magic and continued in the present. We are now in the year 2025 and the games are in full swing. But read for yourself.
Chapter 1 - The Tournament
The tournament was in full swing. The entire city of Inkopolis was full of people from all over the world who came together to play in this tournament to find out who will be the best CraftInk player in this world.
The aim was to collect points. There were 7 days to qualify for the knockout tournament. All you had to do was win a lot of fights by getting a score higher than your opponents. The best 16 players would then compete against each other. But what would the winner get?
The winner would get the opportunity to play against the HiQuarters Top 4 after winning the tournament. This consisted of the 3 creators of the game, @mary-me, @quekery and @smooms. However, no one knew who was 4th and last. There were speculations among the participants. There was talk of a player so good that he was even allowed to skip the tournament and was directly included in the tournament as the ultimate finalist. After all, it would have come down to him being in the final anyway. Others claim that it was a kind of CraftInk robot controlled by an AI that is unbeatable.
But all these speculations were futile. The only thing that remained was to win the tournament and defeat the 3 CraftInk makers and thus reach the ultimate final. Besides the title of "CraftInk Championship Tournament Worldchampion for Life", there was also a hefty prize money: INK worth 100,000 Inkopolis Dollars. But most people only wanted the prize money.
But not all of them either. And here begins the story of @bubblegif, who took part in this tournament with her dog Henry, the cocker spaniel with the dangerous scar on his nose, which he got in a nasty fight with a dangerous greyhound, to eventually meet the top 4 and thus the makers of the game CraftInk in person. @bubblegif was a luminary in her field. She had already delighted many people with her drawings and she hoped to offer her services to the CraftInk team and help design the images for the cards in the future.
CraftInk was her passion. She got her cards about 2 years ago in the form of Booster Packs as payment for a job she performed. At first she was disappointed, of course, because cash is a fine thing, but when she looked at the cards more closely and played her first games of CraftInk, she was hooked. She studied the games of the pros, put together her deck and started playing herself. In the meantime, she became one of the favourites for the title of CraftInk Championship Tournament Worldchampion for Life. She was only 5 points short of making it into the top 16.
So she wandered through Inkopolis looking for players who had not yet challenged her. Tournament matches were held on every corner of the city, but no one wanted to compete with her. The game was "best out of 3". That is, out of 3 games, one had to win 2 to get the point. In one game she stopped. One of the two knew her from a Twitch stream. It was @bechibenner, who competed with a Hacker/Dev deck. His officer card was "smooms". @bubblegif immediately recognised the fat circles under his eyes and the tired look on the face of the character on the card. However, she did not know his opponent. Who had the upper hand in this fight, however, was immediately clear.
The fight was already in the second round and @bechibenner was leading 1-0. The second round he was leading 10-2 when someone tapped @bubblegif on the shoulder. She slowly turned around and could not believe her eyes. The person tapping her on the shoulder was none other than....
Who is the mysterious person? Will @bubblegif still manage to get the points together? Will she be able to realise her dream of becoming a designer for characters on CraftInk cards? Find out all this and much more in the next chapter of the CraftInk story "CraftInk - The CraftInk Championship Tournament". ★
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By: @tengolotodo
➃ COVER STORY
Are you a Sloth or do you Buzz, or do you both, or maybe you even alternate between both? What is it with all these sloths running around our Hive? Find out as we explore Sloth.Buzz.
If you are an alert or even an inquisitive Hivian (Editor's note: Here at HiQuarters we are always alert. LOOL) then you might have noticed that over the last six months on Hive a new tag #slothbuzz has sprung up on some posts. Also you might have noticed that some Hivians were leaving !SLOTH as a comment on some posts. Were you such a Hivian we wonder!
So what is this Sloth.buzz?
Simply put Sloth.buzz is a Hive outpost with a buzzing community (Editor's note: Yes they have their own Discord server.) and Hive Witness.
It's the brainchild of @slothlydoesit & @patlebo. Slothlyd reckons that he is the community man or the social sloth. He's the one behind most of the posts for Slothbuzz. Patlebo is the Dev and he's the one making sure the witness node keeps running (Editor's note: Here at HiQ we know about that too. LOOL), he's the one working on the website and he's the one that's pushing all the awesome updates that come through sloth.buzz (and cryptoradio.fm!)
One could say that Sloth is the Sloth and Pat is the Buzz! Or more accurately Sloth breaks everything and Pat fixes it! It sounds to us that Pat is the one who actually does the work! LOOL
How does Sloth.Buzz help Hive?
@slothlyd and @patlebo have been hanging around the cryptoverse for a few years but it was only at the end of last year did they really realise what Hive has to offer and vice versa and so they jumped in with both feet. (Editors note: Do Sloths have feet or just toes on a paw?)
Sloth.Buzz is aimed at supporting small creators spread their buzz with a big emphasis on Fun!
Everyone feels a little sloth sometimes, whilst being full of buzz other times! Hence they amalgamated the two and created sloth.buzz.
Fair play to them, unlike so many of these bigger communities on Hive where you seem to be ignored until you are Hive famous, sloth.buzz actually treat you like part of the sloth family as soon as you start to socialise.
They are big on memes and seem to be continously running a meme contest either in their Discord or on Hive or both!
Move over Pulp Fiction, here comes Sloth Fiction. LOOL
They love hearing your stories, seeing your creative works and giving you some support doing what you love! They have their main discord community where they have channels set up to highlight the communities' tweets, streamers going live pings and they auto-share all the content posted to Sloth.Buzz! (Editor's note: And most importantly, there's even a CraftInk Channel, LOOL.)
What content can you post to Sloth.Buzz?
Sloth.Buzz's main focus is you! They like to pride themselves that their 'niche' is whatever makes a sloth buzz!
There are areas where they try to support small creators and in particular these are: * Art * Music * Photography * Gaming * Crypto * Memes + Fun
Get involved with the community and they and other buzzers will support you.
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They were running a Zealy campaign during May where you could win HSBI and their HE Token SLOTHBUZZ let's hope they bring it back for June.
After all it will take a HiQ sloth a couple of days to find their way over to @slothbuzz! LOOL ★
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By: @quekery
➄ APPS & TOOLS
Will Ecency Decks be the next killer app for hardcore bloggers? Or is it much ado about nothing? We tested the new feature for Ecency's heart and kidneys.
It has become difficult to keep track of the Hive blogging experience. Keeping an eye on following, managing LeoThreads, monitoring alt accounts, and so on.
Wouldn't it be EPIC if there was an app that concentrated our Hive blogging experience into one place? "Bullshit" you say? One can still dream, can't one? Okay, we're just trolling a little bit. After all, this app already exists with https://ecency.com/decks. But can Ecency Decks really do everything the hivestyle heart desires?
What is Ecency Decks? If you think you can use it to manage your CraftInk decks in the future, you're thinking in the wrong direction. (Editor's note: Or maybe not?) With Ecency Decks you can manage a part of your Hive blogging experience, so nothing with gaming or anything like that.
On the page you can see various columns that you can move, delete or add new ones. If you want to add a new one, it looks like this:
Since we as hivefluencers have an extremely large number of accounts, we also have a lot to manage. For example, if you want to stalk @hiq.redaktion's blog (Editor's note: Which we would definitely recommend.), then click on User, type in hiq.redaktion and click on Blogs. Then you can add a new column with Add new column and add your notifications.
In addition to All, you have many customisation options such as votes, replies or reblogs. (Editor's note: HIVESTYYYYLE) Ecency notifications can even show you Hive Engine transfers. (Editor's note: HAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNDDDYYYY)
With Waves you can display LeoThreads or dBuzz posts. This can save you a few tabs.
Of course, you can add communities, search queries and wallets. You can change the order of the columns, edit or delete them. The editing options depend on what content you have in the column. For example, if you have a blog in a column, you can change the content to Replies or change the type of notification in the Notification column.
Once you have decided which columns you want, you can save them in a deck and also jump back and forth between the different decks.
Overall, we liked the idea of Ecency Decks very much. The implementation is already impressive. There are also more features planned for the future that really make you want more. You can read a foretaste in the announcement post.
However, we also missed some functions in our test. For example, it is not possible to store your following feed in a column. This is a function that we definitely want to see and that we cannot live without. Also, during our test, "Topics" did not work, i.e. retrieving certain tags in a column. If you add "Topics" to a column and click on a tag, you are redirected to the Ecency page and do not see the topic in Ecency Decks.
Perhaps both functions can be achieved through a search query. But these are 2 important functions that we sorely miss. Of course, it is possible that we will soon be blessed with them. Nevertheless, we think that we need something like Ecency Decks and wish for quality-of-life updates that enrich the daily life of Hivestyle. We'll keep