Full Speech by @ph1102 at the BuzzParty 2024 in Hamburg, Germany!

@ph1102: Thanks for editing the presentation and recording it! As I was super nervous, not sure if it is good or bad to see it on HIVE, but thanks for doing it!! 🙂 It's a pity that we didn't have a microphone for the audience as the Q&A section was amazing and powerful! Thanks, everyone for the great questions, and thanks @tibfox for organizing the event! You did a fantastic job with organization!!!

@jesuslnrs: I am very happy that you shared this video, I was looking forward to seeing @ph1102 in action, and boy did he do it well. I had years watching a bit about @achim03's videos on Liotes, but since I got closer to you guys it has moved me more, I hope to grow and be able to contribute something more. Loved the faces of @anna newkey and @mypathtofire, really enjoyed the chat, cheers to both of you. This meeting was very productive, I'm happy for all the attendees 🙏

@melinda010100: This was a fantastic presentation! There was not a single boring moment 😉 and listening to you convinced me to go right over and buy one more LENM. Thanks for the shout out for Ecency! Your Wednesday HHH Live show is excellent and anyone not attending is missing out. Ecency is happy to collaborate with Ourpick. I see do many great posts there that I would have missed otherwise.

@soyunasantacruz: Hi @ph1102 congratulations on representing hive and the liones project is not easy because of the responsibility that falls on your shoulders, I have watched him very well I think he looked confident and not like a rookie, his body language says he is a lion hehehehee. I appreciate the translation of the speech, you are doing very well, I appreciate all your effort and love to hive. @tibfox I don't know if you did the editing of the video, but it was very nice. I liked it. Regards.

@coquicoin: Great presentation @ph1102! I'm glad to be part of the Liotes project and it's great to have listened to this presentation where you explain all the aspects of the project. May Liotes continue to grow and may we continue to grow with it in Hive. Cheers!

@ironshield: Great speech and discussion about liotes. If you he was nervous, it didn't show.

@buzzparty: Transcription for this great presentation: click to open Well, it's hard to be the third one after two professional presenters, to do like a noob thing. This is my first time that I'm doing a presentation of the project. The project is like three years old, so we are not newbies. But we were trying to show how everybody can succeed, actually. So you don't have to be a whale, you don't have to be a huge name. You can just start building bricks and build something, which can mean after some time. But the thing is, it's always boring to do the slow growth thing. Especially on high people are not that much focused, and they lose attention after a couple of posts or a couple of failures. If you call it failures, they don't get engagement or things like that. Actually, I had the idea to talk about one thing, and when I was listening to the first two presenters, I switched things in my head. So the idea was to speak a little bit about decentralization and how we tried to explain the same thing in different ways. So if we ask for decentralization, if you ask for somebody who runs the Hive node, you will see the answer to decentralization that we are running Hive nodes all around the globe. So it's not centralized in one place, it's on different places around the world. And on the second step is that Hive is a DePos blockchain, which is again a different way how you can say that Hive is decentralized, because we have these witnesses which we are choosing, voting for them, and then they are representing our blockchain. So in a way, we have different people who are representing the same thing, and that's the way how it's decentralized in a way. And it wasn't enough for us because we are Hive, so we want more. We don't want just physical decentralization, we don't want other people to talk for us. We want to talk for ourselves. So that was the thing when we split from the old blockchain, as it was a running joke that Hivians are the honey badger of blockchain, because we didn't care about a guy who wanted to take over the community, because you can't buy community and community just moved to other places. And the thing with the decentralized communities is the biggest obstacle for creating, to go into decentralization is ourselves. So because we learned the thing to do in centralized way, as through all the history of humanity, we're always following one God, we're following one king, we're following one person. We always follow one person, and it's stuck in our head how we can't think that something else exists, so that we can actually think like a community, that everybody has its own vote and everybody can be a leader. And we don't have to have one leader, we can have more than one leader. And that's the point with the Hive, that we don't have one person who is leading Hive, we have many people who are leading Hive. But the thing with decentralization is that it's very hard to break our mentality and our thinking that we can do something differently. We were building that for thousands and thousands of years, and people are saying, I was just talking yesterday with some of you guys, and he said like, "This decentralization is impossible to do." But we can't expect that we can do, that we create this centralized community in a couple of years when we were building something for thousands of years. And we need that different mindset to create a different mindset. So in Liotes we try to focus on community and actually empowering other people to do their best. So to do more than they think that they can do, like I'm doing the presentation and I have no clue about doing that. So that's the thing how they can do. But the thing with onboarding is these questions that we ask when we come to Hive. Most of the people ask always, "What can Hive do for me?" And "What problem will Hive solve for me?" So I come to Hive and I want to create, I need money, I create posts and that will solve my problem, my financial problem. But actually it's not like that. It's the other question. What can we do for Hive? What can we do for others? It's always easier to break those first steps on Hive. You come to Hive, create an introduction post, you get some nice uploads from big whales. After a couple of posts you don't have that support and then you just fall down. Because you are focused on yourself, but if you focus on others you are doing people much easier. Because you provide something for another person. I had a company like 15 years ago and my co founder also is running a business company. And we always had the thing that you put the client on the first place. So you are thinking about him and not about yourself. And that was the mentality how we tried to build Liotes. And we come to these crazy Liotes missions. The thing with Liotes missions is that every Wednesday we create a post where we ask Hivians for opinion about a certain thing. It can be related to Hive, it can be related to something ordinary life or else. And Hivians are creating replying comments on those posts. The thing is that during these three years, because we are doing that every single week, we asked many many questions. So if you want to do a survey about a certain topic, you can just go through history on our Liotes blog page and you can actually find the question what you want to ask others and see how people are thinking. And I don't know why, but it just happened that people found that those missions, those posts, they found free to express themselves to answer what they really think about these things. And we asked some hard questions about downvotes. We asked questions about the type of content and those stuff. And usually people are not creating posts with those opinions because maybe they are scared about downvotes and stuff like that. But on these posts, they were actually generally saying their opinion about that. So that was really, really nice to see. And in a way, you get kind of a cut and you can see what people are really thinking about. And it's interesting that some of the comments were actually much, much, much better written than the own posts from those people. So they were putting more effort in the comment than they are putting in their own content. This was probably because people like when you ask them for opinions. So maybe opinion is good. Maybe it's bad. Maybe I agree. Maybe I disagree. But they like to be asked because they like to be in a spotlight. And the thing in Amsterdam when I was in a Hivefest two years ago, I was watching other presentatres. And I was thinking, wouldn't it be great that next time, on the next Hivefest, I take a place there and go out and I say, OK, let's say something from the audience and invite somebody else and put somebody else on the spotlight just because asking like a question. And also, we are rewarding meaningful comments, which is something that, in our opinion, is more important than the monetary value of comments or posts. Because people just like to like that they are appreciated with a comment. So it's not always just money, which is important. It is important, of course. But the comments are creating this kind of relationship that there is a human behind the keyboard, behind the computer who is writing this because I got often comments from people who just came to Hive Oh, it's nice. I got an upvote. But from whom did you get the upvote? So it's not coming from an imaginary person. Somebody clicked and gave you that upvote. So it's kind of appreciation of doing that. And meaningful comments are something that are very, very powerful for collecting followers. So if you want to get followers, if you appreciate other person, other person will appreciate you. So that's the simple logic. So there is nothing no secret sauce regarding that. We have another thing that is our pick curation. That is another sub project that we are doing every weekday. We create a compilation of posts which we upvoted. And we are doing that by our own Hive power because we started like a small project three years ago and we didn't wait for somebody else to give us permission to do that. And we got an idea that we actually have two tokens on Hive engine. One is a miner. One is a mine token and the miner's token you can buy for five hive. And we did differently things from all the others which did before us as we invested all the money that we sold those miners and we powered up in Hive. So all the Hive power at the beginning was actually our own Hive power that we sold these those tokens. Most of the other projects were doing it reverse. I don't know what they did. But the most thing we did all. So there there is no profit from the miners that didn't go to the hive power. But after on we started with accepting delegations too. Every single day we are going through Hive and rewarding quality posts on Hive as other curators are doing also something that is differently from others is that we are assisting In adding valuable comments. So every curator which is currently in our project is actually adding valuable meaningful comments to every post which is a fortunate supported by our people as our Hive power is not that big at the moment. We have a limited number of curators but as our hive power is growing we will add additional curators to our project. Other initiatives that we are running we have this thing with Liotes ranking rewards. So every month we are rewarding people top 15 people from Liotes ranking. How can you get to Liotes ranking? First thing that you can contribute like going to these Liotes missions and reply on the comments. So you are just replying on the question that we ask every Wednesday. And for doing that you are getting points. The second thing is by buying one of the LEN miners that we are selling for five hive. After that we are doing the thing with the hive power that I said. The thing is that every single thing that you actually do on Liotes is rewarding you for what are you doing. So the second thing that we have is Liotes power challenge. This is a yearly thing that we following all the people who are inside our our community. The thing why is called community without the community. So the thing is that we didn't create a hive community per state. So we don't have Liotes hive community like a registered community. But doing these thing we have a lot of people who are coming to these posts and commenting. And actually they have created we have created a small community around the project without having a large community with rules and all of this stuff. And the Liotes power challenge is actually that we are following hive power of the of the people who are inside this this community. And we are publishing every month or twice per month. But how you are actually progressing. We are following your hive power. And in the end of the year because we are collecting the tokens and at the end of the year if you have powered up the most you get these LEN tokens as a reward. The thing with our LEN token why it's different than others is that all the LEN tokens that are currently in circulation are actually the tokens that are mined with those miners. So none of the tokens is minted separately. All the tokens are actually mined by these LEN miners. That's important to say even these rewards that we have created we are creating separate. We are calling them pots for a certain thing. So we have a pot for Liotes ranking. We have a pot for Liotes power challenge. And that pot is growing every single time when we create this post when we collect the author rewards. As everything that is inside the Liotes is actually going back to the project to grow the project. And the thing is that we are taking our admin cut on a second level. So if the community grows if community goes up then we are taking our profits. If community doesn't do well then we do not do well. But do well so that that's the difference. Also we are running a Hive witness for maybe three four months ago. We started one. We were hesitating with this. People are talking about Hive witness. They are always thinking that to be a hive witness you have to be a coder. You have to be a programmer. You have to be a developer which actually is not true as every single person has its own thing what you do on Hive. So you don't have to do all the things and you don't have to do the coding things. Every person is important because every single person is that small part of the chain that does something in its own way and contributing to everything. So we are running a witness for three four months and it goes well. We didn't miss any blocks until now. So that's great. Besides the Hive witness we are doing the Hive engine witness also Hive engine is a is a second layer blockchain or sidechain on on Hive. So we are running that because our tokens are actually on Hive engine and a bit of history we launched at 9th of March 2021 and we were a bit of we had the bad luck that we launched at the same time like a token from the Leo guys. So that was like a competition which was like there and we were like there so and it didn't go that well. But if you just look in the history you see that many of those tokens actually are now out of circulation and they are not working but we are still here. Of course you can check the token how it goes. The thing when we started we had the different idea how to do the whole project. We had an idea to contribute and collaborate with other tribes and to push them up. We had the idea about doing the Liotes shop where we did the the renting of tribe tokens and renting the splinterland cards and rising star cards which in those moments they didn't have a market which they have now. But in those moments they didn't have and we decided to do a diversified thing with the tokens that we are supporting. So the thing that with tribes many tribes are actually went very pretty pretty down and the thing with the diversification actually was a good thing as we added some of the tokens to the diesel pool. So if you want to do the thing with the diesel pool you have two tokens as I said before and if you want to promote your token you have to add the rewards to the diesel pool and we add some diversified token which was a good move as focusing on one thing and crypto is very hard because you can pick one project. But you never know how it will go so you can't trust to other person and that's why probably blockchain is the most important thing because it's trustless because you don't trust the person you trust the chain. So because of that we did different things and we probably missed some of these opportunities because the tribes are not anymore there but we had another thing that we pushed through. So we did the innovative things with the diesel pools that because we paired our mining token and our mined token in one diesel pool. Nobody did that before we did that before we did that because we wanted to create more liquidity for our tokens as all the liquidity was actually built up slowly day by day by these miners and any person now can easily come into the Liotes by buying these tokens or on the regular market or on the diesel pools as liquidity is growing every single day and you are incentivized actually to add your liquidity to diesel pool because you are getting rewards for that. Regarding collaboration from the very beginning we had a nice collaboration with the rising star game and at this moment our tokens are the only token besides the swap hive that you can buy actually directly rising star of packs with with the LEN token. So that's something that is unique actually for LEN and we have a great collaboration with ecency because ecency is actually giving points and besides voting for for a good post on hive. We are actually every single time rewarding people which we picked with additional points from ecency and also a ecency was good for us. So they actually gave me place to do the show on Wednesday. So I'm doing like a show for about hive on in this discord. So we had them as a guest in one of the shows presenting the CBRS philanthropy and that was a great thing. Another great show was where we were sharing about the different communities on hive. That was one of the most visited shows because we did it in dual languages. So it was in Spanish and in English. So we had a lot of people from Venezuela in that show. And in general, it's kind of way like educating others. How what are the potential? What is the important on hive and how can you actually build hive your account of hive and we are the questions. There are plenty of things. So I skipped many things before we were doing most of the things we were explaining to economics. We were explaining these things which can be boring. Maybe this was boring also. But the idea was more to explain why we are doing it and what can we actually bring to other hivians and how to how we want to empower others. So we are not that much focused to onboarding but more to keeping those people continuing to build on Hive. So that's kind of a mission of any curators probably here. So that is thank you.