HivePakistan Curation Compilation February 10, 2025

I received this airdop about a month ago but was unable to claim because the gas fees on Ethereum were exorbitant. I believe it skyrocketed because the network was overloaded with people attempting to sell off the airdop to USDT and such. As a result, the airdropped token's price initially peaked at around $1.5 but then fell to around $0.8. Initially, the value of my airdop was 28$ at 0.8$, but I could not sell because the gas fee on Ethereum had risen to around 68$, which seemed like the most ridiculous thing ever. I had to abandon the entire claim process on Metamask. However, it reminded me of how seamless and free our transactions are on Hive ...

It all started when noticed that I was wasting time on the Google Discovery features which is all around you on Android phones and on Chrome. On my recently acquired Pixel 8 Pro, it is a given that google apps and features are well integrated within the phone and it works great unless you want to remove them. Some of the default apps cannot be easily uninstalled and can only be pause or disabled. I like using google chrome as an interface and I love google search and its integrated apps in the browser but one thing that is annoying is the Discovery features that just pop up news articles for you to read, first it started annoying me because most of those suggested articles where behind a paywall which if I knew before that the site for doing that I wouldn't even bother wasting my time to start and reading something I can't finish. For news I read written report from TV/News website that don't have those paywall just to keep a little bit inform on what is happening, I could argue this is also a wast of time. Default "new tab" view Below is a screenshot of the default new tab view and homepage if you don't change it on Chrome (running android 15), I have managed to change the homepage to the default google.com where the discovery toogle isn't there but it always shows on new tab and this is not customizable ...

I should have been asleep. It was 4AM on a Saturday morning after all. True, I get up at 4AM on any other weekday, but this was the weekend. A Saturday no less! I should have been asleep. Instead, I was rolling out of bed taking a quick shower and shoveling some Honey Nut Cheerios in my mouth before we got on the road to pick up our niece for a day of volleyball down in Pontiac, MI ...

I've been silent for the last few days here on Hive because I was (or am) experiencing a philosophical capitalist impasse about how I should use my time to create content, to write. Because as you well know, everyone knows, Hive isn't about talking about important things and people rarely read your "real" posts, I know, I know, there are 3 or 4 who read and respond, but the majority don't read and don't comment on anything, ever. In general, as I've said in previous posts, writing for platforms like Hive (not even worth mentioning Steemit here, which is a black hole where you shout into the abyss and the abyss never answers you) is an exercise in talking to yourself, just hoping to get some money out of it. But the fact is that I really do dedicate myself to writing "FOR REAL", with real content that often takes up a lot of time and in the end always brings in a few bucks, but always with that feeling of talking to ghosts. Then I heard again about Substack and a supposed "promise" that it's the trend for the future of social networks, and that it could make you a lot more money and, most importantly, make you money from people who READ you, who care, and who subscribe to your newsletter out of genuine interest. But come on, things aren't pretty and this isn't a fantasy world ...