And I do see that reflected on Hive as well over the past year ... I would love to see more data from @valueplan ... I notice that in 2023 there was a half-year report, but I could not find one for this year.
Let me put this to you this way. Your proposal is quite clear on what you consider a quality audience. "We recognize that Hive is not the right solution for everyone. It is best for individuals who are already financially stable, literate, have an interest in technology, have a business perhaps, and are able to positively contribute to the ecosystem." I am asking for the information that people in that audience are going to ask for, because I am that person, living in the fourth-most important country in the world for crypto adoption. I would like to see the half-year report for 2024, and I would like to see what was done with the 300,000 HBD done in Q3, which ends on the 30th. Now I can add just a little, so I know that if Valueplan's ask rate has been just about the same all year, that would give Valueplan a run rate of about 1,000,000 HBD a year. And in fact, since the proposal received a notice from HiveBuzz that Valueplan has just made its 21st post ("You made more than 20 posts!"), it was not hard for me to then go back and look at the previous 20 posts and add some things up.
Q1 Proposal: 300,000 HBD, in addition to 50,000 HBD as a bridge from the previous year
Q2 Proposal: 300,000 HBD
Q3 Proposal: 300,000 HBD
Q3-Q4 Bridge: 150,000 HBD
Q4 Proposal: 200,000 HBD, with Q1 2025 bridge funding included
So, provided that my reading and adding is right, that's 1,050,000 HBD through Q3, with the total for the year proposed to the community at 1,250,000 HBD. That represents a bit more than double of the 2023 ask, which my math says was about 600,000 HBD.
Now, in reading through those 20 posts, and comparing it to Chainalysis data, I see a good deal of that money spent without firm acknowledgment that Central and Southern Europe simply are not in the lead in crypto adoption, and of course the bear market of the last two years may have something to do with that. That may change in 2025 ... but there is still that 1,050,000 HBD that already does not have a half-year report in 2024. That came out in June last year. It is late September of 2024 now. That leaves me to look at the rally car upfront, driving around in regions of the world that the data says may indeed contain your "quality audience," but also are not the most likely to pick up on an altcoin in a bear market. Now I realize there is more to the story than the pictures, and as someone who regularly reads financial statements, I am intimately aware of that ... but that half-year report would have really helped.
Now, as I have said, if you have data showing that Hive is succeeding against those trends because of Valueplan, I would love to see it, and frankly, Chainalysis needs to feature Hive as its beating the odds story of the year if it is indeed the case -- we would be getting regions of the world that are clearly lagging in crypto adoption engaged in adopting Hive, AND we are doing things all over the world that whole governments cannot do in actually changing human lives through the power of this blockchain. Given the amount of community investment from Hive, through the bear, in Valueplan, and given what high DHF spending is doing to Hive inflation according to those Hive stats provided by @dalz (the key sentence in his post here is "So DHF payouts are the main way how HBD is entering circulation these days," and since HBD is not listed on exchanges, that of course has to be converted to Hive and drives inflation if it is being used for payouts around the world) I would be overjoyed to see that. I am a professional journalist by training, and I'm telling you: THAT'S THE STORY. I was an editor, actually, and that would have been front-page news in a crypto publication all day. That kind of story of success would also be worth every thousandth of the 1,050,000 HBD that Valueplan has received this year (I assume all previous proposals passed) and every thousandth of the 200,000 HBD being asked for now.
And I do see that reflected on Hive as well over the past year ... I would love to see more data from @valueplan ... I notice that in 2023 there was a half-year report, but I could not find one for this year.
Let me put this to you this way. Your proposal is quite clear on what you consider a quality audience. "We recognize that Hive is not the right solution for everyone. It is best for individuals who are already financially stable, literate, have an interest in technology, have a business perhaps, and are able to positively contribute to the ecosystem." I am asking for the information that people in that audience are going to ask for, because I am that person, living in the fourth-most important country in the world for crypto adoption. I would like to see the half-year report for 2024, and I would like to see what was done with the 300,000 HBD done in Q3, which ends on the 30th. Now I can add just a little, so I know that if Valueplan's ask rate has been just about the same all year, that would give Valueplan a run rate of about 1,000,000 HBD a year. And in fact, since the proposal received a notice from HiveBuzz that Valueplan has just made its 21st post ("You made more than 20 posts!"), it was not hard for me to then go back and look at the previous 20 posts and add some things up.
Q1 Proposal: 300,000 HBD, in addition to 50,000 HBD as a bridge from the previous year
Q2 Proposal: 300,000 HBD
Q3 Proposal: 300,000 HBD
Q3-Q4 Bridge: 150,000 HBD
Q4 Proposal: 200,000 HBD, with Q1 2025 bridge funding included
So, provided that my reading and adding is right, that's 1,050,000 HBD through Q3, with the total for the year proposed to the community at 1,250,000 HBD. That represents a bit more than double of the 2023 ask, which my math says was about 600,000 HBD.
Now, in reading through those 20 posts, and comparing it to Chainalysis data, I see a good deal of that money spent without firm acknowledgment that Central and Southern Europe simply are not in the lead in crypto adoption, and of course the bear market of the last two years may have something to do with that. That may change in 2025 ... but there is still that 1,050,000 HBD that already does not have a half-year report in 2024. That came out in June last year. It is late September of 2024 now. That leaves me to look at the rally car upfront, driving around in regions of the world that the data says may indeed contain your "quality audience," but also are not the most likely to pick up on an altcoin in a bear market. Now I realize there is more to the story than the pictures, and as someone who regularly reads financial statements, I am intimately aware of that ... but that half-year report would have really helped.
Now, as I have said, if you have data showing that Hive is succeeding against those trends because of Valueplan, I would love to see it, and frankly, Chainalysis needs to feature Hive as its beating the odds story of the year if it is indeed the case -- we would be getting regions of the world that are clearly lagging in crypto adoption engaged in adopting Hive, AND we are doing things all over the world that whole governments cannot do in actually changing human lives through the power of this blockchain. Given the amount of community investment from Hive, through the bear, in Valueplan, and given what high DHF spending is doing to Hive inflation according to those Hive stats provided by @dalz (the key sentence in his post here is "So DHF payouts are the main way how HBD is entering circulation these days," and since HBD is not listed on exchanges, that of course has to be converted to Hive and drives inflation if it is being used for payouts around the world) I would be overjoyed to see that. I am a professional journalist by training, and I'm telling you: THAT'S THE STORY. I was an editor, actually, and that would have been front-page news in a crypto publication all day. That kind of story of success would also be worth every thousandth of the 1,050,000 HBD that Valueplan has received this year (I assume all previous proposals passed) and every thousandth of the 200,000 HBD being asked for now.