We are looking for volunteers to help us write instructional blog posts for each of the points listed below. These guides will help onboard and educate new users in the Hive ecosystem.
If you have experience using Hive, basic knowledge of HackMD or other collaborative text editors, and good English writing skills, we’d love your help. If you've already written something similar, feel free to contribute or adapt your existing content.
At the end of this document, let us know in the comments which section you'd like to work on. You can submit your drafts using a HackMD link.
1. Try it Out - @katerinaramm
- Download the Ecency Waves mobile app and create a wave (a one-line text post with an image).
- For desktop users, log in to Ecency and make a wave.
- Leave a comment on this article.
2. Introduce Yourself - @eddiespino
Mobile Users:
- Download the Ecency app.
- Choose an avatar and profile background.
- Write an introduction post.
Desktop Users:
- Go to Ecency.com.
- Set your avatar and background image.
- Write an introduction post.
(Include explanations for navigating and posting on Ecency in both mobile and desktop.)
2a. Setting up the Profile and Settings -
3. Master Your Wallet - @starkerz
- Send 0.01 HBD to the person who onboarded you, with a memo. Take a screenshot.
- Send a small amount of HBD to a friend. Notice it's fast and feeless.
- Transfer at least 0.01 HBD to your savings (screenshot).
- Swap HBD to HIVE (via Ecency mobile or Ecency market).
- Power up 5 HIVE (screenshot).
- Explain why Powering up hive is important for increasing resource credit capacity (Bandwidth) and voting capability on chain
- Send HIVE to an exchange.
- Make a trade on the exchange.
- Send HIVE back to your wallet.
- Explore your wallet history and transaction types.
- Open Hive Keychain, explore transaction history.
- In Keychain browser, explore apps (Social, NFT, Tools, Finance). Pick 2 and write a line or two about each with screenshots.
- Add favorite apps.
- Practice tab switching, clearing cache, and returning to your wallet.
4. Master Being Social on Hive - @ibbtammy
- Follow 10 people (show how in Ecency).
- View your custom feed based on who you follow (screenshot).
- Search for and join 5 communities.
- Make a post in at least one community.
- Mute @pleasemuteme.
- Leave 5 thoughtful comments (screenshot).
- Upvote 4 posts or comments.
- Reblog your favorite post.
- Bonus: get someone to reblog your post.
- Engage in comment conversations.
5. How to Easily Earn HIVE - @seunruth
- Use @hive-echo to share your Hive content on Web2.
- Use Hive POSH to share content to Reddit and earn HIVE.
- Use GOSH to promote your content across Web2.
5a. An Easy Way to Earn Hive for Sharing Content - @coldbeetrootsoup
6. Master Video on Hive - @starkerz
- Download the 3Speak app or use 3speak.tv on desktop.
- Upload your first short video (1 minute or less).
- Learn about embedding media from platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and SoundCloud.
- Add a 3Speak RSS feed to a podcast app and listen there.
7. Master Posting Short Content on Hive - @bipolar95
- Log in to InLeo and post.
- Log in to Waves and create a post.
- Interact with the Waves feed.
- Post a short video on 3Shorts.
- Log in to Liketu and post a moment.
8. Master Spending Your HIVE - @eddiespino
- Swap HBD to Satoshis using v4v.app.
- Use HBD and v4v.app to pay for a product via Lightning (min. 600 sats).
- Use Keychain Scanner to spend HBD at a Hive-registered business (include map).
- Claim cashback with Distriator.com.
9. Play Games on Hive - @samostically
- Play Splinterlands and write a blog about the experience (optional).
- Play Moon Karts and blog about it (optional).
- Research and blog about other Hive games.
10. NFTs on Hive - @ravenmus1c
- Log in to NFT Showroom.
- Try creating and posting an art piece (optional).
11. Advanced Posting - @steemmillionaire
Beneficiaries:
- Add one or more beneficiaries to a post.
Payout Modes:
- Burn your post rewards.
- Donate rewards to the DHF.
- Power up your post earnings.
- Decline rewards entirely.
12. Account Creation and Onboarding - @meno
- Understand the need for Resource Credits for ability to post and HP/delegation to create accounts.
- Create an account using tickets, via HolaHive, 3 HIVE, or v4v.app with a Bitcoin Lightning payment.
- Create an account with Ececny "Sign up with Wallet" system so that the user can associate a Hive account with multiple other crypto accounts
- Learn how to become a recovery account.
- Understand how to recover an account.
13. Taking Part in Governance - @uyobong
- Read The Digital Community Manifesto and write a review.
- Research what Hive witnesses do; summarize in 3 lines.
- Vote for your first witness.
- Use all 30 available witness votes.
- Set a proxy account.
- Review and support a proposal.
14. Owning / Creating a Community - @wongi
- Create your own community.
- Get at least 10 subscribers.
- Appoint a moderator.
- Appoint an administrator.
15. How to Earn by Voting on Content -
- Explain how curation rewards work.
- Hive Power, value of the votes, and voting mana.
16. Contributing to Hive
- Attend a Hive meetup or conference.
- Volunteer or speak at an event.
- Join webinars.
- Host your own Hive workshop.
- Onboard businesses using Distriator.com.
- Write or contribute to developer documentation.
17. Refresher Blog
- Answer a series of review questions covering all the above steps.
How to Help
If you'd like to help us document any of these points, please leave a comment below stating which one you'd like to take on. Then share your completed blog draft with us using a HackMD link.
Requirements to contribute:
- Experience with Hive.
- Basic knowledge of HackMD or similar collaborative text editors.
- Good written English.
- If you’ve already created similar content, feel free to submit or adapt it.
| Task | Assigned to | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Try it Out | @katerinaramm | Published! - Link to the post |
| 2. Introduce Yourself | @eddiespino | Published! - Link to the post |
| 2a. Setting up the Profile and Settings | @samostically | Published! - Link to the post |
| 3. Master Your Wallet | @starkerz | Published! - Link to the post |
| 4. Master Being Social on Hive | @ibbtammy | Published! - Link to the post |
| 5. How to Easily Earn HIVE | @seunruth | Published! - Link to the post |
| 5a. An Easy Way to Earn Hive for Sharing Content | @coldbeetrootsoup | Published! - Link to the post |
| 6. Master Video on Hive | @starkerz | Published! - Link to the post |
| 7. Master Posting Short Content on Hive | @bipolar95 | Published! - Link to the post |
| 8. Master Spending Your HIVE | @eddiespino | Published! - Link to the post |
| 9. Play Games on Hive | @samostically | Published! - Link to the post |
| 10. NFTs on Hive | @ravenmus1c | Published! - Link to the post |
| 11. Advanced Posting | @steemmillionaire | |
| 12. Account Creation and Onboarding | @meno | Published! - Link to the post |
| 13. Taking Part in Governance | @uyobong | Published! - Link to the post |
| 14. Owning / Creating a Community | @wongi | Published! - Link to the post |
| 15. How to Earn by Voting on Content | @hiventhusiast | Published! - Link to the post |
| 16. Contributing to Hive | ||
| 17. Refresher Blog |
Please join the 3Speak Discord: https://discord.gg/NSFS2VGj83
We have created a special channel for these tasks.
For questions or to get involved, reach out to us on the 3Speak Discord Server.
Let’s make Hive easier and more rewarding for everyone!
Hello, I'd love to take number 14; owning/creating a community. Having recently contributed to the setup of a new community using the Ecency frontend, I've gained hands-on experience with its inner workings and it will be an honor to assist.
To start, a blog post.
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We have created a special channel for these tasks.
I´ve created header pics for all posts. You can find them here:
https://peakd.com/hive/@ravenmus1c/creating-header-pics-for-a-new-post-series-or-the-journey-of-a-hivian
Hi! This is great, could blog about most of them but to pick one and do it well. I’d pick number 9. It should be nice researching and talking about games on Hive. I believe there should be so much to uncover there.
Some feedback on that:
When talking about Hive as a platform, it's Hive.
But HIVE as an asset is HIVE, i.e. blogging on Hive, but sending 0.5 HIVE
:-)
I would avoid tasks related to sending to exchanges (self-custody ftw!) and focus on the internal market instead.
On the other hand, educating people on how CEX deposits/withdrawals look might save some victims of arbitrage scams, etc. Also, touching the Active Key should be way, way after mastering the social side of things with the Posting Key.
Some of them aren't really good newbie tasks and could be confusing; i.e. I wouldn't require voting for 30 witnesses, but 25, and either that or setting a proxy, otherwise we'll confuse the user. Claiming account tokens is also not for newbies.
On the other hand - understanding Resource Credits - that's something good to know.
Thanks @gtg, we have updated the Hive HIVE comments here.
This list is an initial starting point, but agreed, we should prioritise non CEX swaps instead of exchange swaps, or at least make sure both options are included
Yes, some of the tasks you mentioned are somewhat advanced and we do want to keep this list for newbs only, so probably worth moving things like account creation token claims to a more advanced lesson set.
We'd argue keeping transfers fairly early on, as many IRL newbies are coming into Hive via SpendHBD initiative ATM and they need to know how to move money even before they post most of the time.
Especially "Claim account creation tickets." will need a bunch of staked hive which is maybe OK for a new User but as mentioned should be the focus only on getting warm with all the amazing things we have here. Ur totally right.
Interesting. Looks like a bunch of crossings with the hivebuzz.me Tour of a Profile.
Already 78 tasks a user can do.
Yes, The tour is a great starting point. Much of this (but not all) was taken from there. Now it needs breaking down into step by step instructions for desktop and mobile users in the simplest form possible. Each step should result in a blog being published so that the newbie can learn and earn #Learn2Earn
The idea is that they:
This should result in retained users and a track-able chart of on-boards vs retentions
The idea is of course, that as they complete each task and blog about it, they should simultaneously be informed from @hivebuzz that they have moved to the next achievement, so the learning process goes hand in hand with Hive Buzz status and tour program
I’ll be more than happy to help with Number 4. I have written about engagement on Hive before and I’d love to expatiate on it.
I have good knowledge of markdown styles as well.
There is a typo:
I think it should be: @coldbeetrootsoup
Good idea, congrats.
Really great initiative! I will be on the lookout for new Waves users and will encourage them!
I'm down for this, will try my best..
I'll work on this.
❤️ Perfect 🥳
Let’s do this. Although I have made a post and video on how to use 3speak before some long time ago so I’ll just focus on other area
I’ll like to work on mastering being social on hive
Add an entry in the hive-native wiki @propolis.wiki https://propol.is . Maybe just a link to your master post or put all the links in the wiki.
Sorry but i personally very reluctant to download apps
Hello, @threespeak this is amazing work you're doing.... I’d be glad and very interested in contributing to number 5....How to Easily Earn HIVE. I've recently been carrying these tasks on hive-echo on both reddit and Twitter
Thank you!
To start, a blog post.
Please join the 3Speak Discord: https://discord.gg/NSFS2VGj83
We have created a special channel for these tasks.
Hello
It seems number 16 and 17 haven't been assigned to anyone yet. I would love to take anyone of them. 17 if possible. And could you help me with the name of the channel that was created for these tasks on the server? Thank you.
This is super duper good. I'd like to know if one chooses a number title to write on, they'll complete all the sub headings?
Since this is the first job and an important step on the platform, I would like to talk about the topic of presentations 🤓.
More work for Hive 😃 Great 🥳😎.
I would like to write about introduction of newbies on HIVE.
A great initiative!
I don't think I'm capable of making a tutorial yet, so for now I hope to learn a lot from everything that will emerge from here.
Thank you so much for this kind of initiative!
Excelente.
Hello @threespeak thanks for assigning number 4 to me but my username was wrongly spelt so I didn’t get notified. It’s “ibbtammy”🙂
I can do 11 but one question, is it okay if I talk about how awesome comment rewarder is while I do so?
Also woudl you want a blog post or vid, or both?
Number 13. Taking part in Governance. Now where can we find this Digital Community Manifesto? I've never actually seen one being tossed around Hive. If this thing doesn't exist yet, it should!
I see 15 playlists on the Hive YouTube channel covering all of these topics with shorts.
great idea! here is a first short: https://hive.blog/hive-125125/@starkerz/arhlibxlnh
Hi, I'm in for now number 1
It's really a great initiative. I highly appreciate everyone's work. It will be very beneficial for the newbies. Thank you 3speak.
This is a great initiative to guide new users, and I would love to be part of it.
I would like to know if there is a deadline for submission.
Nice initiative! I would like to apply as the author for the Advanced Posting.
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A newbie can either choose any of this and do it or go ahead and do all of them
Hi, I want to start with the first one - is there a deadline?
If noone comes after that, I wish to continue with number 2, and 3 - but for number 3 I want to confirm that it is with ecency wallet (you will need both mobile and desktop version?)
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Thanks, will do shortly!
@starkerz
It is a very good initiative, I'm sure it will have good results. Very good how they divided the articles in sections, great.
I will take this initiative as a signal to do the same, but in Spanish for all Latam users.
I have several years in Hive and good knowledge in markdown, if I can help in something let me know!
Greetings and blessings,
// SPANISH //
Es una muy buena iniciativa, seguro que tendrá buenos resultados. Muy bien como dividieron los articulos en secciones, genial.
Tomaré esta iniciativa como una señal para hacer lo mismo, pero en español para todos los usuarios de Latam.
Tengo varios años en Hive y buenos conocimientos en markdown, si puedo ayudar en algo avisen!
Saludos y bendiciones,
I think num 12 should be fully emphasize the use of RC and HP with how the reward system on post works is a vital topic as lots of newbies ask questions related to these areas. I really love and appreciate your work 😊
yes, agreed, see task 12, we have updated task 3 to include a bit about RC's too
Hi, I would love to take up task 7 please.
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I would love to do task one : Try Out
Awesome initiative.
With 7 years of experience on Hive, I would like to contribute:
14
or
13
In that order, in case one is allotted already.
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Hello! I would love to do Part 10 NFTs!
So you want a blog post? Or also a Video?
To start, a blog post.
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Thanks alot! =) I joined.
Excellent blog intructional
An amazing ideology
Am ready to be a volunteer for it okay
@samostically Hello! I am making all the header pictures for the Posts. Can you tell me what games you are mentioning in your post? So I can put their logos onto the header pic. Thank you! =)
Hello, I’d love to help with number 16, Refresher blog.
Hello I'd love to take number 15... it will be of great joy to contribute my quota to this knowledge bank of helping newbie find their footing on hive ...
Yes, I understand why the idea of AegisPad FE with AI models hosted on a server seemed cool at first - cost reduction always sounds good. But if you dive into the technical side of the issue, hosting AI models requires serious GPU power, and a regular VPS simply cannot handle it. I once considered high-performance vps server such as Vikhost for a project - they are reliable, but even they can quickly become expensive if you increase AI workloads. Sometimes cloud-based AI services simply turn out to be more practical.