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By: @quekery & @mary-me
EDITORIAL
Reading this issue doesn't cost 87.50 € an hour and it doesn't cost 50 € either. It also doesn't cost 99 € for our (also non-existent) AI to read it to you, LOOL.
The Investigative Journalists, aka HiQmour Hersh, have gone down an incredible Rabbit Hole: Vienna Gate! The Vienna Gate story prompted us to do a special issue around this topic. Since Vienna Gate is so extensive, takes place to a large extent on-chain and we were also involuntarily dragged into the issue (Editor's note: bribes and threats...), it is a case of public interest for us.
Our cover topic therefore highlights the case and the various facets of Vienna Gate. We wouldn't be HiQ if we didn't tackle a very serious and emotional topic with a pinch of humour and satire. But even if we exaggerate a little here and there, we still refer to hard facts.
Vienna Gate also contains a lot of sock puppet accounts. (Editor's note: Is this a tribute to JS?) Find out how to recognise sock puppet accounts in "10 tips on how to recognise @jnmarteau's sock puppet accounts".
The setting of Vienna Gate is mainly the German-speaking community and users have often been accused of Hate Speech. But what is Hate Speech? And how does Vienna define Hate Speech? And are these accusations justified? We clarify.
We also briefly touched on Vienna Gate in our last Editorial Post and we received some comments on it. These are covered in the Readers' Letters category at the end of this special issue.
So you see, this super special edition is a little shorter than usual. It should be noted that it does not replace a regular HiQ and that we will of course keep to the usual rhythm. Therefore, consider this special issue with the focus on "Vienna Gate" as a little treat for you in between regular issues.
Due to the serious subject matter, we have decided not to place any advertising in this issue. We would also like to point out that we have not lost our sense of humour and remain true to our reputation as a "satirical infotainment magazine". We hope we can shed some light on this and hope you enjoy reading!
And you know what else could brighten your day? The Commentary Discount Sale 3/4 HIQS with a discount of 20% on the current HIVE price of HIQS (Editor's note: 0.556 SWAP.HIVE). That means you can buy up to 270 HIQS for the price of 0.445 per HIQS. Write the following
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Peace out and have fun. ★
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover Story ➀ Vienna Gate - A coincident?
Gaming ➁ DIY Top 10 - Find jnmarteau acc
Apps & Tools ➂ What Hate Speech really is
Hivestyle ➃ Readers' Letters ★
By: @quekery, @smooms & @mary-me
➀ COVER STORY
We are on the trail of a huge story. Join us in the depths of Globalschool. Does the P in manncpt stand for Pinocchio? Or is it all just fake news? Decide for yourself!
On 25/02/2023, an unsuspecting HiQ editor was written up by @manncpt for being inundated with suspected hate comments. The reason? This Post:
author quantummaa permlink dear-hive-i-have-to-clean-my-name- title "DEAR HIVE! I HAVE TO CLEAN MY NAME !!!!! " body "I feel there is something that has to be written! I asked Jean to make me this account, for what I paid 99Euro which I found insane too much. He told me that I am getting some membership stuff, which I never wanted. I got into that because he was telling, me that this is for the Mammasittas network, and I trust Mammasitta. After I asked her, if he knows something about it, she told that she doesn't know anything. Nice, somehow it was cleared, but I was asked for more money, and then I started investigating. On the same day, his girlfriend was attacking me on my personal phone number on whats up, that because of me Jean cannot sleep since I told him some stuff. I kindly asked her to transfer me my 99 Euro back and I am out of their lives because I need serious people and not some children's running my future business. Then she shouted up, of course, she is here to attack but not to take care of financial stuff for his man. Next was that I was that Jean transferred 3Hive from this account, asking me on telegram if I am allowing him this, but not waiting for my answer. Today I saw he is posting with this account. I want to clear my name here. This is not my account anymore. I will delete what I can and I am out of this game. I feel sorry for every confusion which was made with this account and accounts similar to this one. I thought I can trust, but I was wrong. This is the second time that I am starting with HIVE. Both times I was disappointed. There is always somebody going behind somebodies back. I am done with the Hive Blockchain forever. Please learn from me and take care of newbies, because this is not the way it should be. I will share this article on my FB profile with the photo where I am prooving that I wrote that. All the best and good luck. Goodby Hivers! Julia Bakos " json_metadata "{"app":"peakd/2023.2.2","format":"markdown","description":"Goodby Hive and thanks for all your lessons I learned, and this is disappointment.","tags":["hive","community","cryprobrunch","hiveembassy","hivevienna","deutsch","goodby","thankyou"],"users":[],"image":[]}"
Okay, crass post and crass accusations. For all those who have not yet heard about the case, we still need to clarify a few things. And it would also be important to know whether the accusations are true.
Jean here means @jnmarteau, who is an old acquaintance of @manncpt. Apparently he sold Julia a course that cost 99 €. She was put in touch with Jean by @mammasitta, who, however, assumed that Julia would be given an account free of charge.
Yes, you have read correctly. There is an accusation that Hive accounts + onboarding training were paid for. @jnmarteau and @manncpt claim that Julia bought the wrong package. (Editor's note: The AI package, LOOL. More on that later.) But both admit that payment was made.
On the homepage of @globalschool and @jnmarteau we even find some packages with prices between 87.50 € and 726 €. We have several sources confirming that these "Hive business onboarding courses" are penned by Jean. And in the case of the Globalschool packages, these packages are explicitly aimed at Globalschool students. Are we dealing with a Scheme network that is pushing Hive courses on EU-funded Erasmus students as a business strategy?
In addition to the courses for Globalschool students, @manncpt also has its own different courses to offer. These currently cost "only" 50 €. At @manncpt, participants of the CryptoBlogging Workshop get an account, a 50 HP delegation and a PowerPoint presentation.
One user reported that he was even given the impression that he could only attend the Hive Meetup Vienna if he took part in the paid CryptoBlogging Workshops beforehand.
So let's get this straight: Yes, paid Hive onboarding courses are offered by @jnmarteau and @manncpt. The prices range from 50 € to 726 €. Apparently the customers include Erasmus students and also private customers. It is difficult to say to what extent this is a scam. But there are indications that it is.
What we can say at this point is that the paid courses were not communicated transparently. @manncpt did not mention this in any of his HiveFest talks. It was also never communicated to us or to the visitors of the Hive Meetup Vienna. In public, the impression was rather given that new users come to the chain through his work with the students. Who would think of up to 726 €. At least we didn't, when we upvoted many accounts of @manncpt, @jnmarteau, @globalschool and Globalschool students in the last few years. It was only when Vienna Gate really took off that the prices were communicated to the community. Is there a cover-up going on here?
You think it doesn't get any crasser? Let's imagine for a moment that someone pays @jnmarteau to get a Hive account + "training". What would you explain to the newbee first in this training? Right! NYKNYC! (Not your keys not your coins!) And what did @jnmarteau do? He kept the keys of the newbees, posted with them, commented and even deducted rewards and assets.
To which the common HiQ reader replies, "Surely you're making this up?".
@cryptobrunches and @cryptococoon are accounts of @mammasitta, whose keys she already changed.
A glance at @jnmarteau's wallet already speaks volumes. You don't have to look very hard. @jnmarteau and @manncpt have even admitted it. Although there is always talk of a didactically sophisticated, ingenious concept with some brilliant ghostwriting skills and an AI programmed by @jnmarteau himself (Editor's note: more on this later), this is not plausible.
For example, @jnmarteau logged into Julia's account (Editor's note: Without her knowledge.), pulled assets and posted. He writes in his post that this was just an "oversight".
Julia posted on quantummaa she was a fake account. Why? I've posted 1 article on the wrong account. Let me explain @Quantummaa and @quantumra have the same setup. I am ghostwriting and setuping for more than 150 persons and organisations on various channels/platforms, this is kind of free lancer work but for free for most of people who dont have enought to pay as they tell me, so as long as I can get back my rewards I am ok to buy things rather to make it complicated to start.
Ghostwriting?
Ah yes, that's why assets are also withdrawn in temporal correlation. And these are then also sent back and forth between accounts by mistake. Who hasn't already done this? You onboard a user for 99 €, keep the keys (Editor's note: To log in by mistake.), then create sock puppet accounts called something like that, then send Hive and HBD back and forth to each other, and then still accidentally post in temporally close distance.
For Free?
We found this image in a post by @jnmarteau, which is temporally correlated to Vienna Gate and includes the same prices as @globalschool.
There are other comments confirming that 99 € did indeed flow in Julia's case, such as this one or this one.
So we have it: He charged someone 99 € for an account and an "AI package". He accidentally kept the keys, then accidentally made an AI post of his AI package and certainly also accidentally transferred assets from Julia to his wallet.
Whether @manncpt also accidentally keeps keys is unclear. But he defends @jnmarteau's actions. Coincidence?
Okay, keys were misused and money was collected for courses. But that can happen. What can also happen is that @manncpt tried to bribe us.
After Julia's post was published, many Hivians found abusing keys and collecting money for workshops not funny at all. After all, keeping keys contradicts the idea of a decentralised platform, and most of us onboard people for free.
Many users had questions and these were not answered satisfactorily. However, @manncpt felt harassed and threatened by the questions and did not want to deal with them. After all, it was the weekend and "he is not paid to respond to people's questions" and "he would rather spend the time with his girlfriend".
Apparently, he then had a brilliant idea. 2 teams are formed. While Team A (consisting of @sofibofi and @manncpt) will spend a leisurely weekend eating dumplings, Team B (consisting of HiQ's editors) will "moderate" the community's well-founded questions and accusations in a 24/7 act and spend a stressful, exhausting weekend. Afterwards, while Team A rounds off the dumplings' departure with a delicious BEER, Team B should also distract Hivewatchers from the valid lead and not have a nice evening at dinner.
This picture is NOT from the weekend in question. But this is more or less what happened. LOOL (Editor's note: @manncpt's face has been made unrecognisable for reasons of "victim" protection.)
We understand, of course, that one is reluctant to answer reasonable questions if it is not paid for. (Editor's note: We could take 87.50 an hour.) We were not offered dumplings with BEER or even 87.50 an hour, but @manncpt offered us an extremely (Editor's note: not) generous delegation of 500 HP. (Editor's note: With unknown period.)
please help deligate the hiq 500HP if you will moderate this for me. i can't anymore now want to spend the weekender with sofibofi. she mintet her first nft todayhttps://nftshowroom.com/gallery/sofibofi_schnecken_professor-snail
So what's the deal with @jnmarteau's allegedly self-programmed AI? DGM Dynamics, founded by @jnmarteau in 2020 in Brussels, Belgium, enables (Editor's note: according to Linkedin company description) organisations and companies to create their own AI architectures. The website advertises "1st text-to-web platform using AI" and in a YT video we are shown how to build an entire website with simple text input.
Further described on Linkedin, "DGM Dynamics develops unique innovative IT, cyber-physical, immersive experiences and all-in-one management solutions that combine Blockchain, IoT & AI to improve all aspects of the organisation and its capabilities."
It is also advertised that the "software" on offer automates, accelerates and tracks processes. It is also said to be able to generate legally compliant documents and help decision-makers reduce uncertainty in data-driven models.
That sounds promising, doesn't it? Well, not quite. If you read the description of the company carefully, it turns out that only "coaching, training & workshops for CEO COO CFO CIO CTO EVP SVP VP General Manager CXO President Senior Director Deputy Executive Transformation Leadership Change Agent of the New WorkSpace" are offered.
It is also worth noting that the website talks about "Pre-Order" and "Join the Waiting List". (Editor's note: Reminds us somehow of the CryptoQueen. Coincidence?) We must now assume that this "software" is not yet ready for use and that our dear @jnmarteau is only selling his "coachings, trainings & workshops" expensively.
The texts on Hive, supposedly written with his AI but looking rather self-written, have been flagged by Hivewatchers cracking down on AI content. LOOL
DGM Dynamics was founded by @jnmarteau in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2020 and, according to the company, designs AI and all-in-one publishing and ERP solutions. In addition, coaching, training & workshops are also offered under this company name.
Globalschool is, according to the imprint, a brand of DGM Dynamics. Globalschool was founded by @jnmarteau and is currently managed by @manncpt, who also manages the associated Hive account. Apparently, Globalschool is about "training" Erasmus students.
On their homepage we find packages for learners from 87.50 € to 726 € which seem to be about Hive courses and another package for 242 € which is about 3D modelling. I.e. 4 out of 5 packages are only about Hive.
When asked, @manncpt told us that neither he nor Globalschool get any money from the EU. (Editor's note: This question is important because taxpayer money could be flowing for "onboarding" and sockpuppet accounts.) If they do not get funds directly from the EU, then the question is how the "school" is financed.
The only option left is for Globalschool students to either book 3D modelling courses for 242 € or Hive courses between 87.50 € and 726 €. The students themselves, however, receive EU funding. If we now add 1 + 1 together, the case is quite clear to us. The students use part of the EU funds to book training.
They are promised to be able to build a lucrative business with Hive. It could also be ascertained with some of the onboarded accounts that at least @jnmarteau keeps a copy of the keys and then posts on their behalf and transfers assets to his wallet.
We consider the likelihood that this could be a fraud scheme, for example to skim funding budgets from Erasmus students, to be very likely. The justifications of @jnmarteau with regard to the keys seem flimsy. And @manncpt's statement regarding EU funding is also implausible.
He only said that he or Globalschool does not directly receive EU funds, which of course does not exclude indirectly. So was there an attempt here to deliberately deceive the questioners? 🤔
Option 2.0 is a registered association founded in January 2015 and based in Vienna, Austria, whose chairman is @manncpt. On @jnmarteau's Linkedin page, he refers to himself as the president of the association. The associated Hive account can be found here.
YUM Leadership GmbH, headquartered in Munich, Germany, was founded in October 2018. The company is led by @manncpt's father. Until December 2019, there was an Austrian branch, which was led by @manncpt and @jnmarteau. By his own account, @jnmarteau acted as CTO and CIO. (Editor's note: This is an edit due to this comment.)
Gov-As-A-Service is @jnmarteau's latest coup. This company was founded in January 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. He himself is Founder and we could not find anyone else involved. According to the information on Linkedin, this company deals with the "liberalisation of the public sector and public powers through decentralisation".
Possibly there is a connection here with a PM sent to us which says: "We are losing important allies in Brussels [due to the shit storm on Hive]."
It is also interesting that @jnmarteau presents himself as the founder of Hive Europe and **