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Hive makes it onto Yahoo Finance. They totally fuck it up.

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First of all it is great to see hive get some recognition as a possible Facebook competitor from Yahoo finance.

They have great taste and with 1.4 million twitter followers and a large audience it would be great to see hive noticed on their platform.

If only they hadn't fucked it up so badly.

You can read the full article here at Yahoo finance.

but the general theme is the top five web3 challengers ready to disrupt social media.

  • Niche.

  • Authencity.

  • Peepeth.

  • Steemit.

  • Hive blog.

I've never heard of the first three and don't have much regard for number four but even so it would be a positive to see Hive being spoken about on major outlets like this.

If only they hadn't fucked it up so badly.

Now I'm not a professional reporter but when I do write articles I do some research.

You know. So that I know what I'm talking about.

To have correct information and not just a heap of crap.

I would have though it was the minimum requirement in an article like this on a proper news outlet....

Hive Blog was re-launched by Justin Sun in March 2020 and it specifically uses Hive (HIVE-USD) as its base currency token. Through using the app users gain the Hive token by upvoting content. The amount gained by others depends on something called "Hive Power". The amount of Hive cryptocurrency token you have allows you to convert your accumulated stash into Hive Power. This means that your upvotes and comments will be seen as more valuable and will lead to creators gaining higher profits as a result.

That's the sum total of Hive in the article which starts with a blatantly incorrect piece of information and then followed by a few generic lines that wouldn't be entirely accurate either.

Such a poor article.

With that said their coverage of the other chains didn't seem to be much better looking at the steemit piece.


It might lead to good things though. It looks as if hive.io on twitter has reached out to the author and gotten some satisfaction from there efforts. This should lead to a better section in the article of hopefully a new article focused on hive and it's benefits as a web3 platform.

Hive.io

We would like to thank @BMcGleenon for a great chat and look forward to reading the amended article. 🎉

If nothing else it will have started a discussion in the yahoo offices as they scramble to avoid any more serious issues from their irresponsible reporting.

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