What NFTs could mean for the Entertainment Industry
It has been hard for me to post on Hive of late. I am not sure what the reasons are but I definitely feel a lot of attraction to this social phenomenon, especially with Splinterlands going viral. This game has kept me engaged with Hive and thinking about coming back to it as my blogging home.
I wish to avoid being a perfectionist and think that I have worthy things to say and maybe I lack the time to polish them but let me say these things nonetheless. I encourage anyone to post on Hive, even if it is just a sentence and not worry about other people think or even the financial reward. Being downvoted is not so much an attack on the quality of one's content but merely an adjustment reflecting what someone else thinks your post is worth. It is something that I have not had to worry about in a long time and yet, it is a mechanism that implements a meritocracy as far as the Proof of brain (POB) concept.
The more you post, the better an author you become, so it's useless to procrastinate when you feel like you have a lot of amazing things to say. Sometimes it gets confusing with the different interfaces. For example, my friend might be confused if I tell them that both Splinterlands and PeakD are web sites that I used to interface with the Hive Blockchain.
Yes, something so simple might confuse my friend who does not have the same in-depth understanding of the concept of Blockchain as I. Let's imagine that I told that friend that when Hive forked from Steem, I decided to buy some Splinterlands cards with the Steem which are currently worth much more than if I had left it as Steem. All of this requires rudimentary knowledge of the stock market for my friend to understand some of what I mean.
They might still be grasping with the fact that when this type of fork happens, both cryptocurrencies retain decent value as it happened in this case.
I am not in the habit of torturing my friends with crypto babble. Furthermore, I believe that it is important to be mindful that Hive is populated by people with varying levels of knowledge, which brings me to the self-explanatory "not your keys not your crypto" idiom. Essentially what this means is that in order to truly be empowered by Hive, you must circumvent the role of modern financial institutions and become a part-time banker.
Everyone who has made that leap deserves to post whatever they want and hopefully find communities that inspire them to create quality content. Quality people tend to create stimulating stories, fascinating works of art and well-researched journalism. All of this is present on Hive in one form or another. Look around, it's all yours for the taking!
How exciting that Hive values proof of human interactions without going the KYC route of Voice. I gave Voice a try, I like it, maybe if it had financial rewards, perhaps currency I could use in Upland, it might retain my interest but there are too many amazing things going on here. POB is the killer app because it has enabled me to sustain my endeavour for this long, any future fun I have is just a bonus.
Keep buzzing everyone, you are beautiful and worth it! Keep sharing your adventures, don't be self-conscious and believe in your strengths, success is just around the corner.
I leave you with my musing on the latest @taskmaster4450 #speak video where I imagine a young Madonna, releasing NFTs ahead of each album to give perks to her fans and try to figure out what the use cases will be for this technology.
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