Hi @guiltyparties if they are useful, why not give them an upvote once in a while! 😜 . Only joking!
I've nothing against funding athlete-focused activity or any of that. It's whether the funding is reaching them is my worry. I care about Hive like you and your team do and don't like seeing us being taken for proper fools. I get it that there will always be some element of skimming from the top so to speak but I'm against people really taking the piss out of not just you and the team but the entire Hive Community and being funded with much more funding than is needed for these type of events. Some of these allegations in that video are concerning. They say the street workout founder has no job but yet he can allegedly afford to travel and stay in luxury hotels just to recruit moderators. And also from the video the guys said he is laughing about it. Thinks we are all mad. We probably are. This looks like his full time job by the way which we as a community are paying for. Inflate the cost of event, hold an event for as low of a cost as possible putting the athletes in the cheapest place possible and live a luxury life from the balance left over. Produce receipts for the full value. Would it not be due diligence from the project team to review the Street Workout funding again as a whole? You probably have already? I know there are two sides to every story but it would be naïve not to take a look at it. Receipts for anything are easily manipulated in this day and age. It's not just one guy with a video here. There have been a few now and their stories are matching. I get it when it comes to big money in a poor community there is always some party that are not happy but sometimes the truth then comes out in the fallout. I understand you and the project team most likely have full time jobs but there needs to me more probing into these projects because if not it becomes too easy. This is the main reason for my posts. To ask the questions. It makes people think twice that nobody is watching them. A person in poverty gets 500 HBD for an event and they can't believe your luck. Some of these people probably never seen this kind of money in their lives. The month after they will ask for 750 HBD . Costs went up. They receive it.
"Wow wee this is unbelievable, maybe I can keep $100 HBD for myself."
Next month I will ask for 2000 HBD for an even bigger event, produce the receipts for $2000 and maybe have 1,000HBD for myself. Do you not think this is happening?
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Honestly, I mostly read on my phone without being logged in. Usually forget to go back and vote later.
It's a promotional activity and that's the disconnect. The athletes want it to be an actual organization that puts athletes first. That's the entire problem. The funds are all accounted for. There are just some things like Hive merch and transport which are the bulk. It's the same here at SWC, at a conference, at the B2B initiatives, there is no difference.
Venezuela is a very expensive place, there are big investors moving there, and we are not attracting them not because of the events but because there is an inadequate connection between when a person learns about Hive and their decision to invest in Hive. We keep having conversations about particular projects but our point of failure aren't the projects, it's the onboarding experience. We're solving account making and payment processing and there's still a long way to go.