The holidays are over (for many) and a New Year has begun (for many) but our what did you do over the Holidays prompt has certainly run long enough. Having said that...for anyone celebrating the lunar new year (which hasn't happened yet) or for any Eastern Orthodox Christians who won't celebrate Christmas for another week and a bit...feel free to post about your celebrations after they take place :)
This time we had a number of people writing.
@supernova004
@jjmusa2004
@monica-ene
@lightpen
@rare-gem
@emreal
A lot of the usual suspects and thank you all for your participation. Unfortunately as I was busy with a monster post which took up a huge amount of my time and holiday celebrations myself I didn't get around to asking the #hivepakistan crew to curate the posts. For that I'm so sorry and I hope to do better coming up. As a small consolation everyone has been 200 GLD tokens for participation in this post prompt.
A special note for @emreal who got my name wrong @targanfp I had to laugh a little at that one.
It seemed that everyone enjoyed their holidays. Some went away, some stayed home, some with family, some with friends although it seemed everyone had good food to eat and good memories to carry them forward. Thank you to everyone for participating!
<center<Now what is the post prompt for the upcoming week?
Good question.
As it is a new year I think I should throw out the prompt : Where should the community go for the coming year? What would make it better? What discussions would you like to have? What post prompts would you like to see? How can we make this more interesting for the people who are here? Should we try to make it grow larger or keep it as a close knit group of people?
Why I started the community
I may not have been entirely "up front" when I started the community. My goal for the past year has been to learn all that I could. Learn about posting, learn about earning, learn about communities, learn about the financial system here on Hive. In addition to that I wanted to learn about how people live, earn, spend and give around the world. As most people here are from Nigeria I've learned bout the Nigerian situation.
The whole point of a year of learning was to try to find a way to use Hive to make people's lives better. In that regard I've sent a proposal to @monica-ene and @jjmusa2004 to start a permaculture project with the whole focus being to help people earn some cash, spend it wisely, and find a way to give back to the environment and community at large.
IF they decide that its a project worth following up on then I think that this community may find itself being a showcase for the efforts towards this goal. About a project showing how people can Earn, Spend, and Give while living a frugal and fulfilling lifestyle. No guarantees it will work, but that's the whole point of documenting the struggle!
In addition to making this community a bridge between virtual writing and real world efforts I really want to work on the GLD coin.
Over the Christmas season I tried hard to make an NFT to give to all the contributors in the community as my gift to you. 10 NFT's were made but they are all stuck in the development and distribution stage. After talking with Tribaldex it seems I may need to spend a lot more money to make that dream a reality.
I also looked into getting badges for the members of the community. After talking to dlmmqb (don't want to tag him--he already has enough to read) it seems that making badges for the community is even more work than making NFT's.
In that regard I'm so sorry everyone, I have big plans, but sometimes they are more work or with larger learning curve than I'm current able to do.
So, I'll still keep seeing if there is a way I can make NFT's and NFT mining a part of what this community does. I'm still going to work on a way where members will be able to purchase virtual NFT's and get a physical product shipped to them. In the shorter term I'm going to look at making a mining pool available for your GLD tokens so they can produce income for you week after week. The goal of the mining pool will be to give members 1 GLD monthly for every 100 GLD staked. 1% monthly return.
I need to get 1000 BEE (400 HIVE) to activate a mining pool though so that may take me a little time. I'm still trying to move around real world money to create a virtual system on Hive.
Final message?
I do have big plans for the community. It may transform yet again to reflect a more real world mission..but that is still in the talking stage. I hope it develops to the point where members will be able to earn regular income from the GLD coin.
However happens I want everyone to know I'm so happy that you have joined me on this learning journey. I hope to hear your thoughts on what would make the community better, and what we should talk about in the coming year!
Thank you so much!