Vybrainium (VYB)! The New Hive Community & Layer 2 Token Is LIVE! No Downvotes Allowed!

The inventive people of Hive have once again ventured forth to explore the potentials that the blockchain provides with a new layer 2 token that significantly shifts the rules for post rewards. Let's experiment!

As someone who is both a designer and coder who also values personal transformation, I know that experimentation and evolution are absolutely essential to wellbeing and continued success. With this in mind I am always excited to check out the latest layer 2 communities and tokens for Hive as I am clear that it is within this spaces that evolution and improvements to Hive are most likely to take place.

Vybrainium is just such a project, a new token and reward pool for hive, powered by Hive Engine, that rethinks the Hive reward pool for authors and promises to evolve the Proof of Brain algorithm that was originally the key selling point of Steem, Hive's predecessor. Like many Layer 2 tokens on Hive, it currently uses a standard Hive website design (similar to Hive.blog) and shares many other features of Hive's layer 1 tokens too.

The Vyb whitepaper lays out what makes Vyb different. Here is a brief summary of the key points at this time:

• Vyb does not allow downvotes at all! This will come as great relief to anyone who has experienced being nuked to destruction by large accounts on Hive layer 1 who, for their own reasons, have decided they don't like you or your posts. While downvotes are sold as a solution to spam and reward pool abuses, they can also be used under the guise of these to affect political or personal agendas and soft censorship. The removal of downvotes puts and end to this problem, however, spam and reward pool abuses will need to be tackled in different ways.

• Community rules will be enforced via a global 'mute' feature, whereby those who go against the rules will simply not be visible in the community's site. Currently, rules include 'no self upvoting' and no circle jerk voting (though I am not clear on how this will be monitored/proven exactly and what will happen when there are disputes).

As the whitepaper describes, Vyb is specifically designed to overcome the problem of centralisation on Hive that has resulted in certain whales causing a serious morale and sentiment problem among significant portions of the community (all while claiming they are 'providing a service' to the community!).

As someone who has seen most of my posts zeroed for many weeks, with no proper explanation given and no attempt to debate or discuss the situation by those involved - I welcome the possibilities that VYB offers Hive and will definitely be making use of it's features.

So head over to the Vybrainium site, sign in with Hive signer as with other Hive sites - and get posting. Your account will be ready for you when you arrive and may contain some VYB tokens that you were airdropped, if you met the criteria for receiving them.

There doesn't appear to be a VYB tribe available in PeakD yet, but you can still post to VYB via PeakD or other sites if you prefer, by using the vyb tag in your posts. So really, you have nothing to lose - just tag your posts with VYB and carry on as usual if you like - to earn VYB tokens effortlessly. However, if you really value free speech and are interested in exploring a new vibe on Hive, then definitely get more involved and meet/greet those on the same wavelength!

Advanced Notice

In addition to Vyb's launch, a few other tools and solutions are en route for Hive users to tackle the downvote situation. Stay tuned for an announcement soon for the new site I am working on which will provide much needed insights into the voting behaviour on Hive Layer 1! I will also be enabling Hive users to more easily counter vote downvotes they disagree with and support those involved directly with great ease.

Wishing you well,
Ura Soul

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