I opened my first account in 2016, back then I saw publications making a few thousand dollars each, that's quite the sight when you understand someone is just talking to strangers about their pets or how they do their makeup.

But is it really that shocking? I mean, how many of those 17-year-old influencers aren't making a couple of thousand dollars per shoutout on Instagram, let alone TikTok.

Using HIVE has shown to me how money really moves, how it can move, how it moves for entertainment, for knowledge, for truth, for business. It's all there if you really want to see it.

It is no secret that I love transparency. Because I love free speech so much I've missed out on a few opportunities. It's just the price I have chosen to pay.

In that reflexion about the price and value of different things, about recruiting, onboarding, HIVE and my time of study in it, the experience of seeing lives change for the better by just using social media, by just using a different website to interact with others, I have found some inspiration to share with you about what I think might be a good strategy to spread the word about the HIVE blockchain and its benefits.

First is first, "what is it going to cost me?"

Guys, guys, we can't just tell people that we're giving money away. We can't just start a conversation by telling someone that they can get paid to give away money. Is it the truth? The truth is accessible here, anyone can see what's going on. But you can't tell them that truth first, let them arrive to this truth on their own else they won't believe it.

I think, and I sure do hope I'm right because I haven't yet put it to test, that it might be best if we share the news about HIVE as if it's a secret or an exclusive club. Or at the very least, I think we should start by speaking about the cost of using HIVE.

Well, how much is it?

It's the cost of having balls. Cost of having ovaries. It's the cost of having one ball and one ovary if that's your reality. It's the cost of courage, the guts to share something that could later be attributed to you knowing that it can NEVER be deleted.

Can you edit on HIVE? Sure you can, but the original stays. All your crazy opinions, all your suspicions, all your accusations, all the dumb stuff you say because we all say dumb stuff, everything stays. At most, you can issue a retraction on the record and reference back to that comment/vote/transfer.

That is the price of using HIVE, might be cheap to use for some and unaffordable to others, everything else is profit in my experience, so far. I'll update you if anything changes!