What is the Hive Blockchain? An Introduction

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A little while ago, @theycallmedan hit me up and mentioned that he spoke to an honors class at OK State with 40 students and 6 teachers in attendance. In it, he referred to a guide I created back when the Hive blockchain first launched in early 2020.

To be honest, I hadn't really looked at that guide much since back when I created it. Hive was brand new and LeoFinance (recently rebranded from SteemLeo) was regaining it's footing as we got ready for a new chapter - which turned out to be a blessing in disguise for our project.

After Dan mentioned the guide, I gave it a quick review for old time's sake and while it feels like a lifetime ago, there are some good bits and pieces in there that are relevant - especially today.

The Hive blockchain is bustling with activity over the latest run in HIVE's price from $0.10 - $0.40. I was a buyer (and HODLer) down at $0.10, so positive price action is always nice to see.

Hive is a great project but like many in the crypto space, it is plagued with nuances and intricacies that create a high barrier to entry for any noobie looking to dip their toes in the water.

LeoFinance has always aimed to solve these intricacies. In 2020, we launched Hive Lite accounts which allow new users to sign up to Hive though https://leofinance.io in less than 30 seconds using only a Metamask wallet or Twitter account as their verification/sign-in method. This is by far the easiest way to create an account now and didn't exist when this guide was created.

I took a few of the early clips from this old guide and put them together for the above 5 minute video. I think it makes for a pretty rough but easy to follow introduction to the Hive blockchain. In it, you'll find a brief explanation of what Hive is and how it came to be along with some quick highlights of how people use it and I finished it all off by throwing a clip in at the end which shows new potential users how they can leverage LeoInfra to create a Hive account in less than 30 seconds.

Enjoy and more importantly, share it with the new faces who are taking a peek at Hive during this bull run 🦁

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I don't think I can run out of explainer videos of Hive, the more updated, the better, this will def come in handy. Appreciate the effort.

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Great video buddy, good explanation

Thanks for the valuable information Khal, let's keep on rocking!

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A short video for you to watch

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Thanks for this great information :)

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Perfect these are the articles and training we need to attract new people to the platform. What seems super easy to us because we have been here so long could be a major confusing hurdle to others first coming to the platform.

Thank you!

I never get tired of learning about the Hive blockchain! I'm gonna share it as it may benefit others too!

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Very didactic explanation, @khaleelkazi.

Well done!

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awesome. Load it on youtube so I can share it there

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I think it's great to have as much explanatory content about Hive available as possible.

As the community continues to grow, it will also become more important to have content along the lines of "Explain it to me as you would explain it to your grandma!" guides.

For example, I run a community about cats and cat blogs. To ever possibly reach people external to Hive, explanations would have to be as close to "plug and play" as humanly possible. Most "ordinary" people have no idea what a blockchain is, and they don't care. LeoFinance is great because it has "sign up with twitter," but ALL of Hive needs that.

This is much help thank you very much!

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Might wanna change your profile pic at some point. :P

Thank you lol Been two yrs since I been on here.

I look forward to a boost video that explains will the full breakdown of how to have success in hive

I just learned we can share anyone's posts on FB and Twitter lol. Hay day time!

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very useful when I want to explain to people on other platforms like noise cash what hive is about. Saves me the headache to explain all the things :)

Great post! I love the sentence "One account to rule them all". This has been the cornerstone of my Hive vision and starting point when pitching it to others. Namely that you own your account, and it can be used across different sites that merely display what's on the chain, rather than them owning your account the way more or less all other platforms do.

It should also be a goal that's part of this vision to make it, as you say, where it feels incredibly user-friendly to be able to log on with the same account across all your favorite apps. However, we've got some way to go before we're quite there. Taking LeoFinance as an example, I find it weird to have to enter my Active Key or more in order to log in on my phone with a Hive account. This stops me, and most users I would have encouraged to only have their Posting Key on their phones, from using it.

Any thoughts on how you can make it easier for Hive account owners to quickly log in?

Very nice article!

Your work helping and improving processes within the blockchain has been evident! And there are more and more of them, thank you my friend, for that!

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