I can also defend @crimsonclad. She's not taking a cent for herself, and those funds were just bridged through her to pay people. I believe she even loses some money dealing with her accountant/taxes because of that.
I attended 3 conferences funded by @valueplan. Great work has been done, and I'm aware that many meetings have been held with very big names out there.
Most of these ultimately don't materialize because common ground is not found (e.g. no EVM compatibility, they just want to extract funds from our DAO, their costs are huge, etc etc).
I must admit that we haven't seen huge results so far where it matters the most: bridging liquidity. It's not an easy task since Hive has no CEO, and regulations are not in our favor.
I think it would still be a good idea to do some name-dropping just to let the community know the size of the engaged projects and that a lot of work is being done behind the scenes.
But blogging all these updates takes time, and @crimsonclad's pro-bono time has a limit. My understanding is that she's also been offline for a month or two now due to family issues (see inactivity on https://x.com/@hiveblocks).
@simplegame can confirm the above, too, regarding the conferences.
Not pin pointing @crimsonclad in any way in this post . I know she’s number 2 on the YTD list because she looks after Hive matters in a number of different areas . She’s good and has Hives best interests at heart as she’s a genuine OG with HP to back it up .
I'm just getting back to things after a rather unfortunate injury, so I've been a bit out of it for a month or so! Thanks to all of you for the kind words, but yes, any transfers I accept from funding sources always have full descriptions in their public memos, are always fully paid by me up front, and usually reimbursed around a month or so later (depending on my financial status) when an invoice or receipt is provided. This year does look particularly egregious, as I middle-manned some funds for marketing work with players like Binance (one of the biggest transfers) and conference organizers.
It is a bit true that when I pay for costs up front, and then need to withdraw reimbursements to fiat, I'm incurring tax penalties. This is at current a bit unavoidable, so I'm doing my best to try to find a more safe and viable way to continue to contribute as it has had a small net negative impact on my financially- more and more options for paying with crypto or having companies swap or have their own wallets will definitely help in the future. Totally fine if you want to comb thru this stuff and leave me in there, it's part of what's being discussed in the post!
yes the work Crim does at conferences is great.
I would like to see a list put online somewhere so more people can get an opportunity to attend.
There was in Cali awhile back I could have attended but didn't hear about it.