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How To Increase Your Sphere Of Influence In Markethive

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How To Increase Your Sphere Of Influence In Markethive 

 

We have a lot to be grateful for within Markethive. It’s like stepping out of the rat race into an oasis of humanity at its best. As an inbound marketing, business-based platform with an inherent entrepreneurial spirit, we have all the tools to get our message out to the whole world. We have a social media interface with a collaborative ethos rarely experienced on legacy social media. 

We are starting to see new integrations in the blogging section in preparation for the customized, more intuitive interface and dashboard of Markethive and, of course, the Markethive Wallet that will facilitate the Merchant accounts for members as well as personal transactions, the Vault, etc. 


Image: Updated feature above all Blogs

As shown above, the new-look Blogcasting Hub is located at the top of all blogs in the system. Blogcasting is a term introduced by Markethive and is an enhanced broadcasting system. In the traditional broadcasting sense, only the people who physically subscribe to your blog or newsletter are usually notified of your updates via email. 

With this blogcasting system, your social networks are informed of your blog as and when you publish them. What this means is the potential reach is into the millions.  

For example, If I subscribe to your blog and have 20,000 followers across all my social media accounts, and you have 15,000 subscribers each with a similar following, your blogs have now been potentially seen by around 300,000,000 people. These are people who are not directly subscribed to you. It is known as a “reach” and is extremely powerful. 

 

WP Plugin Article Import

When you use the Markethive blogging system, your content can easily be distributed to your and others’ WordPress sites who subscribe to you. WordPress has been around for years and is a renowned world leader in Blogging platforms. 

It will be integrated into the new Page Making system where all member accounts will receive a WordPress site and be assigned an email for both POP email and default website with an option to assign it to your WordPress or Markethive capture page. 

Markethive’s “Blogcasting” is an excellent solution to the long-term problem of getting the word out legitimately to people who want to hear what you have to say. Blogging is the purest essence of inbound marketing and the core of what Markethive does. 


Image: Inbound Content Marketing Wheel

 

Blog System In Your Storefront Niche

Markethive has successfully combined all the technical and tactical aspects and requirements into one system and overcame the obstacles to make blogging a group process. You can mentor your new associates or offer your customers ongoing support through your Storefront Group. 

Connecting with them through writing blogs and articles consistently with exciting and relevant information will create an authoritative presence, perhaps meet a customer’s need and provide a solution that maybe can’t be recognized in a short advertising message. It can start conversations and is an excellent way to be invited into the consumers’ hearts and minds. 

It helps us be more human in everything we do and in every engagement. It’s about building relationships and connecting at an authentic and genuine level. The most human company wins, and the technology should be used to help your company be more compassionate, receptive, fascinating, and valuable.

Markethive’s Inbound Marketing platform delivers a blogging system built for the beginner, sophisticated for the intermediate, and a compelling platform that advanced professional bloggers will appreciate. The system is designed to develop a complete blog system effortlessly, and easily set up to be the engine that powers your WordPress blogs. 


Image: Drop-down menus on Blogging Platform

 

Blog Subscribe 

The Blog Subscribe feature is where other Markethive members can subscribe to your blog by checking the status of any medium displayed in the drop-down menu. Other sites are to be added, subject to alignment and collaboration of the parties in question going forward. 

When they subscribe (and the potential is 1000s of them), your blog posts are automatically posted to their newsfeeds, email, and any social media accounts they’ve checked. This provides a downstream of subscribers, fellow entrepreneurs at Markethive, who expose their connections to your message; they lift you, increase your popularity, and build more outstanding branding. 

When your blogs are shared and consequently clicked on, they move up in the search rankings. Your readers will want others to know if you're providing quality content. Of course, the only way to make sure your blogs contribute to your website’s popularity is to create unique content, provide answers for visitors, and then share your blogs wherever you can. 

Through the News Feed and Blogcasting Hub, you can promote any products and services globally with a reach into the billions. That is because when people do searches, if the content on your blog is what they are after, they will find you. A very high percentage of the traffic is non-member-related, so many of the people you address on your blog do not even belong to the site.

 
Blog Swipe

The Markethive blog system allows you to make your content available to all members when set on Public upon publishing your blog. The other options are privacy, comments, and swiping are to your friends only, or just to members of all the Groups you belong to, or a selection of them or just one (your choice). You can also set it to Private so no one can swipe your blog.

Why? There are many sound reasons for this.

Curating: 

Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. Markethive offers features to the groups you create and is the perfect blogging platform. 

The option allows others to reproduce your work with your permission and automatically take an exact copy of your blog to their Markethive Blog System. WordPress plugin enables your blog articles massive syndication to other Markethive members' WordPress blogs.

Simply set up a Curating Group for yourself and Swipe the blogs in Markethive as a collection of content you may want to use in your publications. The new Markethive interface will house a newsfeed specifically for curation to intuitively organize and further our reach. 

Proofing: 

You may have a group of members who want to edit, add, or rewrite your content. It is an active phenomenon in Markethive, offering mentorship to people keen to learn the art of writing and blogging, advancing their presence. 

You may get critiques when you produce a blog, so I just offer them to swipe it, edit and change it as they see fit, and then let me know. If I like it, I swipe it back. It’s all about perpetual learning and the ability to express yourself within a collaborative culture. 

The ability to swipe a Blog makes it so much easier to get started, and new bloggers go from poorly and rarely produced blog posts to 1 or 2 dynamic and excellent on-topic blog posts daily. In other words, thanks to the collaborative culture and mentorship, Markethive is now churning out a new breed of wonderful and dynamic bloggers. 

Cocktails: 

A Markethive feature allows you to create unlimited groups, each with a different cocktail of content curated, aggregated, or from multiple group memberships. So the options to produce unique content for unlimited WordPress blogs controlled from within Markethive are unlimited.


Image: Blogcasting Infographic

 

Ecosystem For Entrepreneurs With Respect

Markethive is blockchain-driven, being integrated on the Solana Blockchain. The Markethive coin is mined when members utilizing the platform as the system rewards you with the Hivecoin Token for using the platform as intended. 

It’s important to note that excessive non-productive actions and engagement for the sole purpose of accumulating the token are not rewarded. Measures have been put in place for fraudulent behavior, which is considered toxic for the professionalism of the platform.  

With all members' creative content in mind, distributed, peer-to-peer data, communications, broadcasting, and marketing foundation are advantages. With distributed decentralized cloud servers, the likelihood of a data crash, central server failure, hacking, and political unrest is heavily mitigated, delivering an extremely stable platform for each subscriber on their merit.

 

Another Advantage Coming

Blogcasting is a Blogging Broadcasting System introduced and enhanced by Markethive. When you use the Markethive blogging system, your content can easily be distributed to your and other WordPress sites. 

Markethive has also built into the system the ability to register your other social network accounts, with more being added as we move forward with the new interface. You can subscribe to your blogs and others, therefore literally distributing content to a vast reach into the billions. 

The added advantage is the Bounty Program that is currently in the works. This means you will be rewarded for registering all your separate accounts through the Markethive platform. Subscribing and following the many Markethive social media accounts will qualify you for the Infinity Bounty Program. 

CEO of Markethive Thomas Prendergast explains the workings and benefits of the upcoming Infinity Bounty Program. 

Regardless of your motivation and drive, Markethive will add to your objectives, broaden your reach, and build your sphere of influence further and more significant than anything before has even attempted to do.

The moment you join Markethive, you have an instant setup of your own “Viral Blog” ready for you to begin posting content and marketing your business, product, service, or even personal content. You’ll be up and running the moment you set up your account! Markethive nurtures the Rise of the Entrepreneur with the Divine Vision to put a great future in your hands.

 

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Also published @ BeforeIt’sNews.com https://beforeitsnews.com/promotional/2022/04/how-to-increase-your-sphere-of-influence-in-markethive-3034.html

 

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Less is more – then there is enough for everyone

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Less is more – then there is enough for everyone

And while many dream of the progressive life, for us it is quite ordinary. We live, think, learn, work, consume, eat, get sick and die the way we learned to live, think, learn, work, consume, eat, get sick and die, and in the course of time we get used to the strangest things.

But if I erase everything I have learned and look at the present as a stranger from the outside, I no longer understand the world:

Surreal reality is normality
We hang people on tubes, insert artificial joints and make their hearts beat artificially. We keep bodily functions alive while the soul may be on a completely different path.

We screen our bodies, but not the meaning of life.

We are not allowed to let people die, but we are allowed to keep them alive – are we not then allowed to judge their death by judging their life?

We don't have time, although everything goes faster.

We look at displays all day, but less at faces.

We have the best conversation, but have conversations less often.

We speed up, but go backwards.

We have it easier, but are getting heavier.

We are overfed, but underfed.

We are more comfortable, but get sick.

We have prosperity, but suffer from prosperity diseases.

We have become the tools of our own inventiveness – the world is becoming more and more complex, although life is supposed to become simpler.

Prisoners of freedom
Because we want cheap meat, we produce animals like matter and grow fodder crops, although people are starving. We are closest to ourselves and yet often miles away. We can be in any place at any time, but are rarely in the present. The world is getting smaller – we can even bring it home. Everything is possible – WE ARE FREE! But freedom makes us its prisoners. When everything is possible, we have a thousand possibilities and always too little time. We are the slaves of our time: separated from our families and married to work because modern life demands flexible people.

The dependence of freedom
We dissect the world under the microscope, but forget to marvel.

We feel omnipotent – yet we lose control.

We want to possess, but become obsessed with everything.

We root ourselves in the earth, but destroy it.

We are outnumbered, but consume the most resources.

We always want more, but overlook what we have.

We look for happiness around us and don't feel that we have it inside us.

We no longer have to be cold – we have even turned on the heating in the world.

We have the most modern machines, but we forget our own hands.

We consume products from other continents but cannot order our own garden – not even online.

We are free, but more dependent than ever before.

And although we are allowed to choose, we lament not having a choice.

Responsibility in globalisation
We – is the western lifestyle.

We – is the high standard of living.

We – is the model for many people around the world who have been at home in their unique cultures. Gradually they are disappearing into a shallow monotony.

Are these lamentations on a high level
or justified doubts about our form of society?

It is far from all bad, but much could be better if we were less complex and more simple again. In the constant striving for faster, further, higher, I long for a reversal: back to the roots and touching the earth with your hands again!

 

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Hard times – why they are important and how to get through them

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Hard times are no fun. They come unasked, unwanted, and yet we have to get through them somehow. Often they are even a key for our personal development.
In this article, you'll find four ideas about the mindset that will help you get through difficult times.

What happens when the framework of life starts to shake?
It's relatively easy to be happy and content when things in our lives are running smoothly. When nothing is jarring and everything feels like it should be exactly the same – or at least similar – to the way it is right now. When we have valuable people around us, a solid job under our feet, a goal and lots of plans ahead of us.
But what happens when circumstances suddenly change?
When the stable framework begins to shake, the ground sinks in,
the scaffolding collapses and happiness plunges down with us?
Does it stay with us down there?
Or does it give way to loneliness and hopelessness?

Difficult times are part of our life
Some affliction always occurs to life to make us wobble or even fall over: a great tragedy or the subtle feeling that we are not running in our own lane; that something is wrong.
There is no such thing as a life without depths.
They will come. And it's good that they come, because they are part of our lives. Depths and precipitation enable growth, cause change and make us rethink things.

Four suggestions on how to get through hard times better
Maybe we can see them coming, maybe they catch us off guard. But when they are there and at times we no longer know where up is and down is and who we are ourselves, and we wonder why fate is shooting poisonous arrows at us, the following four ideas can help you get through hard times with more purpose and gentleness.

1 – Embrace the feelings – even the ones that weigh us down
While virtually we express more and more with emojis, in analog life we like to shirk the unpleasant feelings. We don't want to feel pain and would prefer to run away from it, shake it off and just leave it behind. Unfortunately, this does not work.
In fact, the opposite is true: we cope with and process our soul pain by encountering and experiencing it. By looking at the emotions and taking them apart, understanding them and putting them back together, we can heal ourselves.
So allow yourself to feel the pain.
It's okay to hurt. Hard times are part of it.
Your tears are okay.
They are meant to be cried.
Cry them so you can laugh again soon.

Good times, hard times – life is duality
Because no life is solely pain, but every life is duality, you can only feel pain because you know what joy feels like. And because every element of life is as impermanent as life itself, melancholy will also pass away. Find the meaning behind it and give it the space it demands. Don't make it bigger than it is, but don't try to ignore it either. Embed it in the big picture – in this way you neither make your worries bigger nor smaller, but put them in relation – and that makes them smaller in the end.

Defense creates suffering, acceptance heals
Give the pain the time it wants to be with you. You are not alone. The pain is with you to help you, to free you, so that your life becomes easier again and finds its way back on track.
Obstacles, lows and turning points are lessons of life that we can grow from and become who we are meant to be in this world.
Nothing happens without a reason. But we often only understand the meaning behind the pain in retrospect, when we look at this phase in the context of our entire life. Even if we cannot make sense of every crisis, they are inevitably part of our being. We should accept them and the unchangeable – with everything that goes with them – and after a while continue on our way strengthened.

2 – Look for happiness within us – even if you don't believe you'll find it there
Especially in hard times, we want to give up the weight most of all. We try to distract ourselves and stuff the empty, unfulfilled needs with externalities. No matter whether it's with a shopping spree, a ready-to-eat pizza or a bottle of red wine – we wake up the next morning at the latest and the supposed fullness has been digested. The emptiness reappears because superficial happiness can never alleviate a profound pain. It may numb it, but it can't reach it, and it certainly can't dissolve it.

Your inner light shines even in the darkest times
Because true happiness comes from within – and not from a plastic bag, from the best kebab store in town, or as a genie from some wine bottle. Always. Even in our most difficult times. Even when we think that only empty, dark smoke rises from within, which we want to extinguish with all our might through some distraction, our inner self also brings forth light.

Rediscovering difficult times and happiness
Learning something new, being grateful and curious, playing or exercising, praying or meditating, spending time in nature or with loved ones can give us true happiness. Even in the hardest of times. Even when you don't believe in it.
So don't hide from the dark side of life. Start meditating or painting or learning something new. Do what is good for you, so you nourish yourself. That true happiness comes from within is a gift of life to each of us. You have your own source that no one can turn off – not even you.

3 – Be grateful – even for the small things
In the dark times, life is not only upside down – you also see nothing and forget some things that were long internalized, including our gratitude.
As soon as we are overwhelmed by our emotions, they override the rational thought processes. In hard times, we literally forget the good in our lives. Yet the beauty of gratitude is that it is simply a matter of perspective: every moment offers the chance to be grateful.

Discover the good – even in difficult times
Even if you can't feel it at times, you know what people, events or circumstances you can be grateful for.
Think about it and look for the good in your life. Don't let pain paint everything black that was shining a while ago. Be grateful as best you can right now. And then be grateful when you feel better because of it.

4 – Be mindful – when you least want to be
Especially during the difficult times of life, I would like to be anything but mindful. I want to be able to fast-forward the days or weeks, and sometimes even the months, during these difficult times, so I can skip the stressful emotions and escape the now.
In this, the now is the only thing we truly possess.
Even though it's hard, we should accept that we are where and how we are right now: In the dark, perhaps on the most difficult stage of our lives.
And clearly it's not pretty there.
And of course we want to move on as quickly as possible. But this resistance requires much more energy than simply accepting the suffering in the now.

Simply accepting difficult times
Mindfulness is on everyone's lips, but it is far from being present in all lives. Practicing it helps to first simply take things as they arise: without judgment, concern, or objection.
Regrets about the past or worries about the future – we do that first. Things are as they are – with all their advantages and disadvantages. And often not as bad as our heads suggest.
You are here now:
In the here and now.
Walk bravely through the hard times, because they make life deeper, make you stronger and make you who you are supposed to be.

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How To Know A Vision Is From God

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How To Know A Vision Is From God

The vision of God - Universal Church of the Kingdom of God - Universal Church of the Kingdom of God

When someone comes up with a good idea, the temptation or natural byproduct can be glory or honor for the one who came up with it. However, when God gives us a vision, the vision is often something that would be impossible if left simply to our human ability

John 10:10 – The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Luke 4:18-19 – 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Not all visions are from God. The problem with getting your vision from other sources other than God is that while it may have an earthly appeal, it would lack divine/eternal dividend. In order to avoid gaining the whole world and losing your soul, the following are the acid test to show that a vision is from God:-

You will need God to know and fulfil it – if God is the source of your vision, then you will need God to fulfil it. Jesus, continually pointed to God has His source. The same thing with Paul, he pointed the Christ has both his source of vision and strength(Philippians 4:13). If you are the source of your vision, then you are the Lord of your life and then you are your own saviour and that means your vision is limited to your ability and God is ruled out. It is source that determines size. It is source that determines resource. So be wise to receive the vision for your life from God. From above scripture in Luke 4 you will see that Jesus made it clear that it is the Spirit of the Lord that has given Him the assignment and the vision was not self-made.

It should benefit humanity –   The bible says, for God so love the world,… God’s vision benefits all humanity. God does not discriminate against anybody. Jesus died for all and not for some.   If you are the only one that your vision benefits then it is not from God. Your vision should benefit all that believe and receive it. God loves people more than anything, so if your vision does not improve God’s most important treasure then your vision is worth very little. My question is if your vision gets fulfilled today apart from your family and you,  who and who would also benefit from it. The true worth of a vision is in the magnitude of its beneficiaries.  The vision of Jesus was centred on meeting the need of humanity so your vision should take after Jesus Christ.

It will give you fulfilment and peace of mind – Romans 14:17 – for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The peace of God that passes all understanding, will keep your mind and soul when your vision is  from God. When God calls He also  keeps. When He gives you vision,  he makes provision. He told the disciples, I am with you always even to the end of the age. Jesus asked the disciples a question after they returned from the ministry work he sent them, He asked  ‘did you lack anything when i sent you out ’ and they replied ‘’we lacked nothing, Lord ’. When then vision is from God, you will enjoy peace and fulfilment, in spite of any opposition.

Please share with us your perspective of Markethive. Do you believe Markethive is a vision? A project so huge only God could make it real?

Maranatha! 

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Analyst expects end of the current world financial order – This is why Bitcoin could be the big beneficiary

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Since the Ukraine war, the prices of many commodities have been rising rapidly. For Credit Suisse analyst Zoltan Poszar, the commodity bull market is a foretaste of long-term changes in the global monetary system: commodities will replace government bonds as the main components of the world financial order, China's currency will strengthen – and Bitcoin could be a big winner.

The respected analyst Zoltan Poszar, who is currently responsible for Credit Suisse's short-term interest rate strategy after holding advisory positions at the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank, by no means considers the Ukraine war to be a local conflict with little impact on the global economy. On the contrary: according to him, this conflict will bring about fundamental changes in the global monetary system, the first effects of which are already visible. The world financial order will not be the same after 2022 – Poszar expects a new system, which he christens "Bretton Woods III".

Poszar reckons with Bretton Woods III
In classifying the global monetary order since World War II, Poszar follows the common view of economic historians who distinguish between two periods. From 1944 to 1971, the Bretton Woods system provided for the US dollar as the anchor currency: The currencies of the 44 participating countries agreed in Bretton Woods (New Hampshire) on a fixed exchange rate of their currencies to the US dollar, whose value in turn was fixed at 35 US dollars per fine ounce of gold. However, the trade deficits of the USA grew so strongly over time that President Richard Nixon dissolved the gold peg of the dollar in 1971. This was the beginning of the era of freely convertible currencies that are hedged with liabilities in other nations' currencies on banks' balance sheets, which continues to this day. De facto, these are mainly US dollars outside the US; for example, China has dollar reserves worth more than three trillion US dollars. According to Poszar, this second period, which he calls "Bretton Woods II", has come to an end due to the global instability caused by the Ukraine war – now "Bretton Woods III" is following with completely different mechanisms of action.

Ukraine war leads to "regime change" in the world financial order
Poszar sees the global monetary order at a turning point. The Bretton Woods system was supported by gold, the second period (1971-2022) was characterised by "inside money" (especially US government bonds within the international monetary system) and in the third period now beginning "outside money" (gold and other commodities) will play the greatest role. Pozsar bases his expectation on the fact that for the first time in post-war history the foreign exchange reserves of a central bank have been frozen – namely in the context of the Western seizure of Russia's extensive foreign currency. Government bonds and foreign assets that were considered risk-free are now suddenly at risk of confiscation – a drastic change that Poszar sees as the beginning of a turning point in the global financial system: "We are witnessing the birth of Bretton Woods III – a new (monetary) world order based on commodity-based currencies in the East that will presumably weaken the Eurodollar system and also increase inflationary tendencies in the West," says Proszas in a paper he published.

China's position strengthened
Against this backdrop, Poszar emphasises the special role of China, which nowadays has enormous global economic weight thanks to its rapid economic upswing. So far, China has not imposed any sanctions on Russia and continues to buy Russian raw materials – at significantly reduced prices, since Russia can hardly sell its high supply of raw materials in Western countries. According to Poszar, the Chinese central bank could choose between two strategies to finance the mass purchase of Russian commodities: On the one hand, the People's Bank of China could sell US government bonds, which would increase inflationary pressure in the West and cause bond yields to rise. On the other hand, China could practice "quantitative easing", i.e. increase the Chinese money supply. This would in turn strengthen the position of the renminbi in the global world monetary system and especially weaken the role of the US dollar as the world reserve currency.

Bitcoin as a new safe haven?
Poszar also sees bitcoin – along with gold and other commodities – as profiting from the new monetary order he expects. Bitcoin would emerge as a winner from the upheavals; but only if Bitcoin "still exists then". If it does, Bitcoin could rise to become an important asset protection, both from inflation and geopolitical instability. Recent weeks have shown that nation-based financial assets are far from risk-free, which could benefit decentralised financial transactions like cryptocurrencies. Jon Wolfenberger, CEO of Bull and Bear Profits, agrees with Poszar and considers Bitcoin "a great alternative with lower political risks". In recent weeks, however, even Bitcoin and Co. have not been able to escape the downward trend of most assets, with Bitcoin losing 14 per cent since the end of the year and Ethereum even 28 per cent. Gold, on the other hand, gained 3.7 percent (as of mid-March).

Papic thinks Proszar's forecast is exaggerated
Bitcoin's current performance is thus at odds with a supposed safe haven. Likewise, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western currencies such as the US dollar and the Swiss franc have appreciated enormously. Marko Papic, chief strategist at Clocktower Group, calls the expectation that the dollar could lose its status as the world's reserve currency "exaggerated". Papic does, however, expect a "multipolar" world financial order to emerge, in which the values of the currency will shift considerably. In this context, the strength of the Chinese renminbi expected by Proszas has been confirmed in the past few trading days, with China's currency appreciating strongly.

 

 

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The Central Hub Of The Markethive Economy – The Wallet

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The Central Hub Of The Markethive Economy – The Wallet

What Does The Wallet Do? 
What Does It Mean For You? 

 

The launch of the Markethive wallet is approaching, so it’s time to start beating the proverbial drum. It is the start of an exciting time with the advent of many integrations to follow the release of the wallet that will bring Markethive into prominence as an unprecedented platform. The combination of inbound marketing, social media, digital broadcasting, video, conference rooms, e-commerce, gamification, etc. 

Markethive is a blockchain-driven crypto economy, all-inclusive, with a distributed database system required for this decentralized, monolithic global project. We’re almost there with the release of the wallet that will initiate entrepreneurial sovereignty and open the floodgates of this divine enterprise with its plethora of systems and services, including the new interface and dashboard. 

We now have a complete working wallet with the Solana Network, and we also have a fully functional crypto merchant account. The Markethive wallet is being polished with the finishing touches, keeping mindful that it’s not just a simple wallet but a comprehensive, dynamic engine centralized for you that powers your platform and business.

Markethive is fundamentally a sophisticated inbound marketing and storefront platform, integrated with a social network, and not just another social media platform you see popping up to counter the media tech giants we’ve come to know as oppressive, censoring you and using your personal data for their own gain. 


Markethive Pay Transaction Example

 

Your Very Own Merchant Account

The Markethive platform is massive, and it lends itself to the cottage industry concept allowing members to monetize the various initiatives within Markethive. It also allows you as an entrepreneur and business owner to facilitate and promote every aspect of your business, including eCommerce payments, right from your business Storefront in Markethive. 

In other words, you will have a personal Merchant Account that you can plug in to your WordPress or Storefront group through Markethive. You will be able to utilize your chosen wallet address for payments relating to your business, and it will keep track of everything for you. You will not have to rely on APIs and third parties that can shut you down at a whim because you don’t go along with their agenda. 

 

The Functionality Of The Wallet

The wallet is not just a wallet to send coins out from Markethive to an exchange. It will house the functioning and tracking of the ILPs, your transactions, subscriptions, statements, payments, and the Vault. The Vault is home for your Markethive Credits, likened to a stable coin. 

You can fund your vault with Markethive Credits via various cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Hivecoin, Credit/debit cards, and a payment processor new to Markethive, wise.com. Due to the adversarial nature of PayPal, the processor will not be available. More updates will come as we finalize all the moving parts of this comprehensive mechanism.

With the tightening of crypto regulations by the unforgiving, anti-business sentiment of the US government, it is in everyone’s best interest to stake Markethive Credits instead of Hivecoin. If we were to stake HVC, the regulations require Markethive to report monthly all individuals' staked earnings. This would be a tedious, expensive exercise and not one any of us as a community or individual would want. 

As Markethive Credits are not classed as crypto, it sidesteps these regulations and allows us to accumulate Hivecoin passively. Utilizing the Vault by having an ongoing threshold balance of Markethive Credits is a form of staking. In other words, keeping any amount in the Vault above your monthly commitments (e.g., subscriptions) that are automatically debited from your vault generates interest. 

The higher the threshold balance, the more interest you receive, and it also increases your Hive Ranking, which also increases your interest. You cannot trade or sell your Markethive Credits; they are for purchasing services within Markethive, so the vault can be considered a debit card. 

Equally, it can be used as a bank account, except the interest received from banking your funds in the Vault would be considerably more than a regular bank account. With interest being paid to you in Hivecoin, it also has increased worth as the price of the coin rises. 


Markethive Wallet Example

 

Markethive’s Coin-Only Exchange 

Markethive is also in the process of setting up an offshore corporation to be able to facilitate a coin-only exchange wholly owned by Markethive, similar to Yobit. 

Why is it important to have our own exchange system?

Markethive has a tremendous amount of activity with its coin through its members, so the way to document that for other exchanges to view the millions of transactions is to have our own exchange. This makes it conducive for other coin-to-fiat exchanges to have Markethive on board and allow trading (buy/sell), invoking pre-eminence and increased market value. 

Markethive is not just building a non-purposeful meme coin like Doge or Shiba, nor are we creating a simple exchange. It’s a comprehensive, dynamic platform that will serve humanity on every level imaginable, helping us through these difficult times and into the light where our personal sovereignty will rise in harmony and abundance in the collective.

 

Benefits Of A Reduced Total Coin Supply 

Along with the integration to the Solano Blockchain, Markethive will drastically reduce the total supply of Hivecoin into the low millions (actual amount to be advised). This means the price potential for HVC, through supply and demand, will increase a hundredfold+ and benefit you as a Hivecoin holder.

Think of Bitcoin's total Market supply of only 21 million coins as opposed to the other altcoins with a supply into the trillions. (less supply, more demand, market price increases.)

It will also make Hivecoin kinetic and benefit you when building your business within Markethive with all the tools and services you and others need all transacted with Hivecoin. The implementation of a gamified system will draw people in, which in turn broadens your sphere of influence as you use the system. 

As this activity takes place, it expands the usage, awareness, and adoption of Markethive services, which then drives up the demand for the coin. It creates an alternative economy, a complete ecosystem for entrepreneurs of every caliber making a living online. It makes Hivecoin legitimate as it has purpose and utility, unlike so many other tokens out there that have very little to no purpose and a total supply into the billions and trillions.

 

 

Entrepreneur One Upgrades First Access. Automatic KYC

The Entrepreneur One members will be the first to receive access to the wallet. KYC (Know Your Customer) will also be implemented for all members. Notably, if you register a credit card within Markethive, you will automatically be KYC level two. Uploading your passport or driver's license and utility bill will be classed as KYC level one.    

What this means for you when building your business is that the people you are dealing with in Markethive are verified and legitimate. They are who they say they are, and your level of engagement will be much better and more genuine than on any other social network. 

It’s important to understand that the Entrepreneur One Upgrade will no longer be available upon release of the wallet. Existing, current E1 members will continue to enjoy the benefits of the upgrade, including receiving a 1/10th ILP for every year their subscription is active for up to ten years. The benefits are explained further in this article.  

 

The Premium Upgrade will also launch once the wallet is released, with many benefits for Markethive members. It increases your earning potential and allows you to monetize the initiatives Markethive has implemented. Click here to preview the features of the Premium Upgrade.

There's still time to upgrade to Entrepreneur One and be privy to the complete Markethive system that can be described as a cottage industry with money machines that champions everything else out there. You will be one of Markethive's early adopters and have a rare opportunity to cement your future of self-sovereignty. 

How can you forge your future as an Entrepreneur and get your share of ILPs with the Entrepreneur One Loyalty Program? 

By clicking on the Membership Upgrade tab on the main menu of the home page and following the prompts.

The precarious state the world is in provides us with the opportunity to take advantage of emerging technology to “unhook” from the global majority and its nefarious, corrupt systems.

Markethive truly wants everyone to succeed and have a sustainable business that’s making you a sustained income from anywhere in the world. That’s the Markethive promise, the vision, and what we’re building. 

Be with us at the Sunday meetings at 10 am Mountain time to learn more and stay updated with the latest Markethive news. You’ll find the link to the meeting room in the Markethive calendar.

God Bless you all with Light and Love. 

 

Also published @ BeforeIt’sNews.com https://beforeitsnews.com/promotional/2022/04/the-central-hub-of-the-markethive-economy-the-wallet-3033.html

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War in Ukraine is a Distraction from what is Really Happening

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War in Ukraine is a Distraction from what is Really Happening!

Commentary By:  Gordon King

The war in Ukraine seems to be escalating by the day, as NATO and most of the world are backing and supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia.  War is bad, people die, lives are destroyed, and many more are ruined.  Yet the world seems to be pushing for war instead of trying to work things out peaceably, and instead of attempting to work with both sides, the world (for the most part) is further infuriating the leader of Russia (Vladimir Putin) to fight even harder!

I’m not here to tell you which side to support or not support, or if you should support any side at all.  Both sides are bad, however, the world tells us that Ukraine is a peaceful democratic society, is that the truth?  The situation in Ukraine is complicated.  Ukraine put a president in power via a coup in 2014, with the help of the United States and NATO.  Many of the Ukrainians are Nazis (Azov battalion), fighting in the war.  President Zelenskyy has banned opposition parties.  The Ukrainian government has been committing genocide, killing its own people for years such as in Donbas.  There have also been reports recently of Ukraine using its own citizens as human shields against the Russians.  So, this is who most of the world wants to support?  Why?  Why such support for Ukraine when it obviously is wicked and evil and is committing such atrocities against its own people?

The United States invaded many countries over the past couple of decades, where was the outcry from the world?  Other nations are at war even now, where is the outcry and support from the world?  The hypocrisy is amazing!

Follow the money and the WEF.  This war in Ukraine is being used as a tool my friends, a tool to further along the Great Reset!  It’s also being used as a distraction from what is going on in the rest of the world.  Ukraine is part of the New World Order, Zelenskyy is a graduate of the “Young Global Leaders” program of the WEF (World Economic Forum), and it’s been reported that Vladimir Putin is as well, however, he would have been too old at the time the program even started.  Valdimir Putin is not going along with their plans, he is a nationalist.

War equals money, war equals power, war equals control, and war distracts us from other things.  As people are now focused on the Ukrainian war their eyes are taken away from what surrounds them.  They now seem oblivious to the state of their own nation.

In America we have many crises and many more arising.  Our Southern border is open for anyone to cross, with very little if any resistance, illegals are crossing by the hundreds of thousands!  This creates a burden upon our system, our economic system, healthcare system, housing, food, etc., but also our safety and well-being, not to mention the influx of illegal drugs.  Did you know that we now have the highest number of deaths in America due to drugs?  It is being reported that Fentanyl is now the number one killer of Americans.  Although I would argue that it may just be the number 2 killer with the Covid-19 injections being number one!

Our rights are being stripped away from us every day, yet most don’t seem to care.  Millions of Americans have lost their jobs due to the Covid mandates, Covid injections are still being pushed by the government even though there are more and more reports each day that they are killing us.  Many people have chosen to take their own lives by suicide then to continue on in this world, not to mention the psychological harm that it has done, especially to young children!

Inflation, created by our own government, is getting worse by the day.  Many people cannot afford higher prices at the pump or for food, housing, energy to heat their homes, and it’s getting worse.  America was energy independent under President Trump, but now energy dependent under Biden!  And what does Biden do?  He blames Russia for our problems and takes no responsibility at all!  What are the suggestions from the government?  Ride the bus, drive less, just work from home!  And don’t worry, the government is coming to the rescue once again, just wait patiently for your gasoline stimulus checks!

Threats of food shortages plague the world, as fertilizer shortages have increased.  Yet, the world is more concerned with the war in Ukraine, rather than mass famine in the world.  So, what will the government do next, food stamps for everyone?!  But where will the food actually come from if it isn’t there in the first place?  It’s also been reported that the government paid farmers to plow under their crops instead of sending them to market, as well as dairies being paid to dump their milk!

Healthcare has become a dictate from the state, people have lost their right to treatment of their choice.  The Covid pandemic (plandemic) and the mitigation techniques used are weapons against the people.  They tell us that they are for our own good, yet they are doing just the opposite!  Not only are they killing and maiming people, but they are dividing us against each other.

The Global Elite know just what they are doing, and it’s all a part of the Great Reset!  Tear down society so that it can be rebuilt to their liking, to their agenda!  Not only rebuild society, but depopulate the planet while they are doing it, via Covid-19 injections and war!  Focus people’s attention on the war in Ukraine so that they will be oblivious to the actions that they are taking against us.

So, what’s next?  I can see it coming my friends, I can see it coming.  Digital IDs, vaccine passports, digital currency, UBI (Universal Basic Income), healthcare controlled by a World Government, increased security measures meant to further take away our freedoms.  More control of us by the Elite.  

Destroy the middle class until there is only the Elite and the impoverished class, the peasants.  Take from them until they have no more, so that they must rely on the government for all things.  Remember the saying of Klaus Schwab: “You will own nothing and be happy”, and “You’ll eat much less meat” — Meat will be “an occasional treat, not a staple, for the good of the environment and our health.”  Sure, we will own nothing, we will eat much less meat, but what about them?  They will own everything and eat whatever they want whenever they want!

The war in Ukraine is being used as both a distraction and a tool against us.  Being used as a distraction so that we are unaware of what is really going on, used as a tool to institute their plans of world domination!  The Ukranian president is pushing for the New World Order, he is a proponent of it, and has plans in place for a digital ID, passports, social credit system, UBI, and digital currency already in place via their Diia app.

Amid war with Russia, Ukraine is quietly rolling out a central bank digital currency and social credit score model.

Why are so many people infatuated with the war in Ukraine when we have so many detrimental crises in our own nations?  Why is it that our own governments choose to ignore our own disasters and focus on Ukraine?  Why is there now such a growing hatred of Russians as there is for the unvaccinated?  Coincidence?  They will tell us that the instability in Ukraine along with the Covid pandemic (plandemic) are causing a need for stability and sustainability in all sectors of our lives, economics, healthcare, housing, food, energy, transportation, education, security, etc.  It’s all a plan my friends, a plan to change virtually every aspect of our lives!

Don’t be caught off guard, don’t be caught sleeping, know the truth!

The world is changing as the Elite tell us that it will, but is it really for the better, is it really for our own good?!  The closer that they get to achieving their goals the closer we get to the beginning of the Tribulation period!

Look up my friends, for your redemption draws near!

God bless my friends!  Maranatha!

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ENTREPRENEURS vs POLITICIANS – SOVEREIGN KINGDOMS vs ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT

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ENTREPRENEURS vs. POLITICIANS – SOVEREIGN KINGDOMS vs. ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT 

Could it be that the tide is turning for entrepreneurs to be accepted by an overwhelming majority to the political platform? With all that is revealed recently, and many corrupt politicians and bureaucrats facing indictment, perhaps it's time to let the entrepreneurs take the helm. Think Hunter Biden & Co, Burisma and Ukrainian connection.

We all saw what an entrepreneur could do for a country for a short time that has gone down in history as triumphant by many, all to be destroyed in one year when a political puppet with his cronies seized power in what many considered as a coup d'état.

Many entrepreneurs are stepping up to thwart the dictator-driven hierarchy that is not even an elected official. Such as the World Economic Forum headed by Klaus Schwab pushing for a one-world government, one kingdom of a new world order where "you will own nothing and be happy." And where all governments across the world are answerable to it.

One entrepreneur and investor, Peter Thiel, is stepping down from the board of Meta (Facebook) with a focus on helping elect Republican candidates that support former President Trump's strategies. Candidates such as J.D. Vance and Blake Masters, also entrepreneurs, will be directly backed by Mr. Thiel for the 2022 midterm elections. 

These non-politicians have all the hallmarks of entrepreneurship; they are critical thinkers and innovative individuals who focus on real people's lives and do not follow the dogmas that have manifested over the last few decades. They can empathize with their constituents on a simpler level; delivering their message the people can understand and follow through with positive action is just one example of what they would bring to the table.  

On the other hand, politicians deliver lip service with an agenda that suits them rather than society. We've seen it play out, especially in the last two years, in such a blatant fashion that it’s incredulous. Some politicians are also ignorant of emerging technologies to the point where they are apathetic and show disdain for fear of losing their grip on power. 

 

Some Get It – Some Don’t

Their skewed perception of world affairs results in poor, even detrimental decisions for us ordinary folk worldwide. In a recent congressional testimony based around interest rates, Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, was in the hot seat where questions were asked about crypto. 

Senator Elizabeth Warren rants about how corporations are causing inflation and how Russia is evading sanctions by using cryptocurrency in the second hearing. She even slammed cryptocurrency exchanges for refusing to sanction regular Russians; Powell stated that it was outside of his area of expertise.  

Senators Jack Reed and Kyrsten Sinema voiced their concerns regarding the global trend away from the US dollar, explicitly noting that some superpowers have accelerated their abandonment of the dollar in the wake of the Russia/Ukraine war. It’s most likely the superpowers saw that Central Bank assets are fair game for sanctions. 

Kyrsten also confirmed that US politicians are becoming concerned that their sanctions against Russia are doing more harm than good to the dollar. And Jerome essentially said that the damage to the dollar depends on how long this situation lasts. 

It seems the FED may have found itself backed into a corner that it can't get out of easily. As much as it's tried to stay neutral and avoid becoming politicized, politicians have been unscrupulous in using the dollar as a political weapon against International opponents. 

Notably, the international community has known this for some time, and many have been trying to move off the dollar for years. Many wars were started to preserve the American dollar as the reserve currency. When Moammar Gaddafi created an evaluated currency for Africa, western military power went to Libya and assassinated Gaddafi. 

When Saddam Hussein announced in Iraq that he would no longer accept the US dollar for oil, two months later, the war broke out in Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was murdered. The current conflict has accelerated this process, giving the edge to crypto and its benefits because it can be used to cut through the corrupt and fragile fiat financial system that is failing in every capacity. 

Some countries such as El Salvador have realized that fiat currencies are futile and have turned to adopt currencies that aren't controlled by any other nation. Currencies that maintain their value and can't be turned off for any reason. 

Jerome Powell’s testimony indicates that fiat currency’s days are numbered. We are heading towards a trend of decentralizing national currencies, and for many, favorably in the form of cryptocurrencies and not a Central bank-run digital currency. (CBDC)

Below is a snippet of the essential points of the second hearing relating to crypto from Guy at Coinbureau. 

To watch the full video of Guy breaking down Powell's testimony of both hearings into its most critical parts, giving you his take on what this could mean for the markets, click here. – 30mins.

 

The SWIFT System Weaponized

Since the sanctions on Russia by certain western countries and corporations, including the globally used SWIFT system. Founded in 1973, Belgium-based SWIFT is used by banks for cross-border financial transactions. It facilitates trillions of dollars of payments between 11,000 financial institutions in more than 200 countries making it the backbone of the international financial transfer system.

The Central Bank of Russia has since permitted its largest bank, Sberbank, to act as a cryptocurrency vendor to circumvent sanctions imposed by the U.S and E.U and a way to avoid the massive downward pressure exerted on Russia’s ruble.

The above decision, along with other contingencies such as India purchasing oil from Russia using rupees instead of dollars. And Saudi Arabia is working on selling oil to China in yuan instead of dollars. 

It’s worth noting that most of the world has not joined the sanctions against Russia, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Israel, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Pakistan.

In 2014, Russia launched the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), a Russian alternative to SWIFT. In 2015, China launched the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), a Chinese alternative to SWIFT. CIPS processed around $12.68 trillion in 2021. CIPS has 1,280 financial institutions in 103 countries and regions.

Combine the Russian System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) with the Chinese Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), and you see the foundation of a new Russian-Chinese cross-border payment system bypassing SWIFT speeding up global de-dollarization.

Interestingly, Russia has the ruble, which is fully backed by gold, unlike fiat with no intrinsic value except faith, trust, and acceptance of the people in their governments. India, China, and Russia have long had a different monetary system apart from SWIFT.

As recently as November 16, 2019, Vladimir Putin said, 

“The Dollar enjoyed great trust around the world. But, for some reason, it is now being used as a political weapon to impose restrictions. They’ll collapse soon. Many countries are now turning away from the Dollar as a Reserve Currency.”

What is happening here is that some misinformed or even corrupt self-serving decisions are giving rise to a multi-polar world, which is quite the opposite of a one-world government. In effect, the countries that have sold out to the United Nations supporting their Agenda 21/30 are creating their own demise.  

 

Are You Ready For Some Truth Bombs?

An award-winning journalist, and former newscaster, Lara Logan, drops a few truth bombs in this interview that rocks the world. The alternative media exposes the NWO, EU, US, NATO, the UN, CERN, the WHO, the CIA, the MOSSAD as all one big snake pit connected up the dark evil pyramid of the elite.

You are not hearing this on mainstream media as they are facilitating the agenda and narrative of corrupt politicians whose thoughts and strategies are a polar opposite to entrepreneurs with life experience and a humanitarian approach. 

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be . . . The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."

Thomas Jefferson

 

The Crypto Industry Takes A Firm Stand. More Entrepreneurs Stepping Up

The dollar as the Reserve currency all countries align is diminishing rapidly. The cry for regulation of cryptocurrencies by corrupt governments shows the corruption and mutiny within organized financial system bodies like the SEC, revealing how protected Bitcoin and Ethereum are.

Some governments asked entrepreneur and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to block Russian media outlets from its Starlink satellite broadband service. In a tweet he sent out on March 5th, Musk declared the company would not comply with the request "unless at gunpoint." According to Musk, the demand hadn't come from Ukrain, and he added, "Sorry to be a free speech absolutist." 

The sanctions to squeeze Russia's economy and sever the country from the global financial system have forced companies and financial firms to halt business. But many of the world's largest crypto exchanges – including Binance and US-based Kraken and Coinbase refused to ban Russian clients, despite a plea from the Ukrainian government. 

They said they would screen users and block anyone targeted by sanctions. The standoff illustrates the ideological difference between the traditional financial sector and the world of cryptocurrencies, whose origin lies in the ideal of liberty and distrust of governments. The crypto exchanges argued that cutting off a whole nation would counter Bitcoin's ethos of offering access to payments free of government oversight.

 

A Turning Point In History And The Rise Of Kingdoms

The world’s state of affairs may look bad to some, but it's a turning point in history, with Russia now seeming to lead the way out of the Matrix, leaving behind the corrupt financial system and mainstream media. This is perhaps the start to implementing a free world outside of the matrix of the cabal that we have been trapped in for centuries.  

We now have what can be considered separate kingdoms of sovereignty emerging that are all fundamentally on the same page and supporting each other. It includes social media marketing cryptocurrency ecosystems that can help an expanding community in times like these where the world has reached a level of volatility unprecedented. 

Unlike the tech giants, Markethive will not be or will ever be involved in sanctions that hurt people at the very core. Every individual from every country is welcome to the sovereign kingdom of Markethive and escape the tyranny that surrounds it but will not penetrate it. 

Aptly recognized as the Ecosystem for Entrepreneurs, Markethive stands for freedom of speech, critical thinking, self-expression, and liberty, cultivating the entrepreneurial spirit to keep it alive. Perhaps it’s time to get the entrepreneurs back into government—empaths with substance and have no agenda except to help humanity thrive. 

 

An Individual Thinker – An Entrepreneur Of Medieval Times

I will finish off with a quote from Roger Bacon, who was born in 1220 and died in 1294. A scholar with a background in experimental science, philosopher, educational reformer, he later became a friar and was subsequently condemned to prison for daring to speak his mind and his penchant for millenarianism. 

He also predicted the hot air balloon, the flying machine, and the magnifying glass. He was the first person in the West to give exact directions for making gunpowder.

Bacon displayed prodigious energy and zeal in the pursuit of experimental science. His studies were talked about everywhere and eventually won him a place in popular literature as a kind of wonder-worker. Bacon, therefore, represents a historically precocious expression of the empirical spirit of experimental science. He is what I would call an entrepreneur of medieval times. 

“True knowledge stems not from the authority of others, nor from a blind allegiance to antiquated dogmas, but instead is a highly personal experience. A light that is communicated only to the innermost privacy of the individual, through the impartial channels of all knowledge and of all thought.” 

 

 

 

Note from Editor; This article is an alternative view to the mainstream narrative. After much research, I felt the need to put it out there. After all, there are two sides to every story. 

 

Also published @ BeforeIt’sNews.com https://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and-politics/2022/03/entrepreneurs-vs-politicians-sovereign-kingdoms-vs-one-world-government-2529469.html

 

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Ukraine: The Digital War on Tanks and Propaganda

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The war in Ukraine is a war in real-time transmission, a war for information. And it is a war that raises two questions: Can an aggressor in the information age be forced into a quasi-digital military retreat? What good are the promises of the tech giants?

The power of shared images
Images have power, information is effective – that's nothing new. Just how great this power can be is being demonstrated again and again these days – in both good and bad ways. This has mainly to do with the fact that in many cases it is unclear how much images can be trusted. Too often, there are posts that are manipulated, taken out of context, or just plain wrong. One of many examples is a video purporting to show the "ghost of Kiev." It shows a Russian plane being shot down. However, it is actually from a video game. Just recently, a video of the Ukrainian president apparently calling on his own soldiers to lay down their arms made the rounds. It quickly became clear that the video was a deepfake – fortunately not a very good one.

Taken as a whole, however, it is almost a harmless example of a war that has become a war in the information age. The attack on Ukraine began long before Vladimir Putin sent out the first tanks. Misleading information was the first decisive step towards the invasion of Crimea and the Donbass as early as 2014. Deliberately used to bend reality, not only with regard to Ukraine, but with regard to the entire world.

Russia has long dominated the information war
For years, Russia has dominated this information war. This was also made possible by the social networks and their failure, indeed their refusal, to take action against this kind of disinformation. Only now, against the backdrop of the military offensive, have the platforms reacted. Late, too late as many say, but perhaps with some effect. Because in the end it is precisely these networks on which the images can also develop their effect.

Selensky's communication battle against Putin
The more or less direct communication of Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj alone could not be more different. While the Russian president, even when talking to his own ministers, only shows up at absurdly long tables (the background, by the way, is reportedly Putin's downright panic about a covid infection), Selenskyj can literally be experienced directly on the front lines. With every photo, every video, the images of the aggressor acting from the palace and the heroically resisting attacked person solidify. Selenskyj, meanwhile, already spoke directly to the people of Russia in an impressive way at the beginning of the war. That deepfakes are used as a means to discredit Selenskyj's powerful images comes as little surprise.

The importance of sovereignty over information channels should not be underestimated. It is not least about international support, whether in politics or business. Above all, however, the messages are directed at the people in the affected countries; it is about the morale of the soldiers, the willingness of the citizens to suffer. The Russian government is well aware of this. It is not for nothing that the Putin regime has now blocked Facebook, Twitter and a number of Western media sites. The official reading, in which, among other things, the term war is banned, is to be enforced by force. Nevertheless, more and more people in Russia are using social networks to inform themselves about the war against Ukraine. Protected network connections (VPN) are widespread in Russia, through which access to Facebook and Twitter is still guaranteed – even if this is often not legal locally.

Best documented war in human history
The development also has to do with the fact that the conflict in Ukraine is likely to become the best-documented war in human history, as described by expert Daniel Johnson. Johnson writes, "What is coming out of Ukraine is simply not possible on this scale without citizens and soldiers across the country having easy access to cell phones, the Internet and, by extension, social media apps. A large-scale modern war is being broadcast live to the world minute by minute, battle by battle, death by death. What's going on is already horrific, if you look at the information that's already been released on the first day."

In this regard, the Ukrainian government is using social media in particular with a speed and virtuosity that does not make Putin's official propaganda spectacle look good. Selenskyj himself, in particular, has risen to the status of social media war hero in a very short time. Of course, he uses his experience as an entertainer, actor and director, and the staging (if it is one) always looks authentic: Selenskyj still gave his first speech in a suit, but he has long since been seen primarily in a military shirt. His videos are internationally oriented, he shoots in Ukrainian, Russian and English, with clear words without political clauses. As a result, the president gains hundreds of thousands of followers every day, and more than five million people already follow him on Twitter.

The impact of this presence should not be underestimated. Selenskyj increases the moral pressure on foreign countries and fights in his own country the false information deliberately spread by the Russian side, for example, about an alleged escape of the president.

Tech companies ask for help
But it's not just politicians who are using their channels to draw attention to the situation in order to mobilize support for Ukraine. The country is also home to some well-known tech providers that have taken initiative in their own way.

Readdle comes from Ukraine and has apps such as PDF Expert or the Spark mail client, which is particularly popular with Apple users, among others. These days, Spark users repeatedly encounter a screen with the hashtag #StandWithUkraine and a request for support for the people in the country when they launch the app.

Mac Paw has gone one step further with its Cleanmymac suite. The menu icon now includes a Ukraine flag. The news info for the latest version says: "With this version we stop selling our products to users from Russia and Belarus. Ukraine is our homeland, and we want to protect it in any way we can. Despite the war, Cleanmymac is stable, and our team is safe. We try to keep calm, stay focused, and are optimistic that Ukraine has a peaceful future ahead of it in independence. And we are deeply grateful for all the incredibly encouraging news you have sent us."

Truth should save lives
Another tech initiative is focusing on information. Consulting group One Philosophy and IT company Empat, with the help of volunteers, have launched the "We are Ukraine" website – a "collection of truthful information, facts, examples of Ukrainian resilience, and opinions from Ukrainian and world democratic leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine." The posts are designed to be shared as often as possible.  The motto: "Save lives by spreading the truth about the Russian war on Ukraine."

The same approach is taken with different means by the Call Russia campaign. With the help of the website, Russian-speaking people living abroad are to be put in touch with Russians on the ground via telephone, so that they can then talk to them about what is happening in Ukraine. A guide for the conversations is provided, because they are unlikely to be particularly easy. "The call will be very difficult. People have been exposed to Putin's propaganda for too long, and it's not easy to change their minds," the website says.

The role of tech giants
The longer the dispute goes on, the clearer it becomes that fundamental change will only be possible if the people of Russia force it themselves. For that to happen, it will almost certainly take the anger of the oligarchs, for whom sanctions are ruining business. But it will also require a lot of information among the population, information beyond Putin's propaganda. At this point, the tech giants and social networks in particular have a duty. They must now show what their promises of commitment to democracy and against disinformation are worth.

Google plays a role in this process that should not be underestimated. Google search results for Russian queries related to Ukraine have so far been dominated almost exclusively by a handful of well-known Russian pro-Putin propaganda publications such as Izvestia, Russia Today and Ria News, many Russian speakers complain.

Admirable actions such as those of Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova on linear television are the absolute exception. For Russian speakers, many of whom already feel isolated in information bubbles full of propaganda and conspiracies justifying the war, it is crucial that they have access to accurate, verified, and balanced information about the war if they seek it, writes SEO expert Olya Ianovskaia, for example. This, she says, is not the case at the moment. This is another reason why Putin's state narrative dominates the Russian Internet.

Other tech giants, meanwhile, have become more active. Facebook has restricted access to the accounts of major Russian media outlets such as Sputnik, Russia Today and gazeta.ru. Tiktok, for example, has begun removing video content posted on the platform by Ria News, one of Russia's largest news outlets.

Twitter is launching a version of its site as a Tor Onion service, optimizing it for the network to protect privacy and circumvent censorship. The Tor network has also been added to Twitter's supported browsers page.

Telegram plays a special role, if only because of its strong distribution in Russia and Ukraine. The company, founded by exiled Russian billionaire brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, has become "a key weapon in a digital propaganda battle," analyzes the British Guardian. The app has established itself as a leading news source outside of state-controlled media during the Ukraine war, becoming a 24-hour news channel for civilians, journalists and even the military. "We don't want Telegram to be used as a tool that exacerbates conflicts and incites ethnic hatred," Pavel Durov lets it be known, but otherwise leaves it at rather general advice: "Check the data posted on Telegram channels at this difficult time, and don't believe them."

Public pressure must grow
If it were that simple, I'm sure we'd have fewer problems. But it isn't. Of course, someone like Pavel Durov knows that. The past shows that only public pressure by users can really bring about change. If the fight against disinformation is not to be left to the thoroughly commendable initiatives of pop singers and athletes, then this pressure must grow. In the best case, this will help to end the war in Ukraine more quickly. In the very best case, it even ensures a lasting change for the better. From today's perspective, that certainly sounds naïve. But there is a chance. And opportunities are there to be seized.

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How Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Are Sidestepping The Russian Censors

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How Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Are Sidestepping The Russian Censors

As the Kremlin has tightened its grip on the world’s biggest tech companies and its own media, Ukrainian startups have turned to hijacking their own apps and tools to inform people in Russia and Belarus about the war.

Over the weekend, Kyiv-based stock images company DepositPhotos emailed clients with links to two collections of photos—one showing what’s happening in Ukraine 

Kyiv Ukraine Feb 2022 War Ukraine Armed Local Resident Carries — Free Stock Photo

and another showing Ukrainian supporters around the world at anti-war protests. DepositPhotos, which was acquired in October by U.S.-based Vista, appealed for Russian customers to read outside the country’s propaganda-dominated state media.

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“Many people in Russia are not aware of what is really happening,” Vadim Nekhai, vice president of VistaCreate and DepositPhotos, tells Forbes. “And the origin of this idea is to send a message to all of the Russian people what’s really happening.”

Inside Russia, the invasion of Ukraine has been dubbed as a “special military operation” while the few remaining independent Russian media organizations have been threatened for reporting on the invasion and civilian casualties, according to Human Rights Watch. Moscow has also taken steps to rein in social networks, which have been throttled inside Russia over Meta’s crackdown on the Facebook pages of state-owned media. Russia has sought to pressure tech companies for years with fines for “illegal content” but a new law requiring companies to set up an office in Russia, will give the Kremlin even more influence.

When asked if Nekhai has heard back from anyone that got the email from DepositPhotos, he said the company received “mixed feedbacks,” but said about half of the people understand, but other complained that what’s said in Russia contradicts the reality of the situation.

“Even if a small percentage of our clients or users will actually listen, it will help,” he said.

The Ukrainian team behind viral face-swapping app Reface decided to harness its 200 million downloads to sidestep censorship about the war within Russia. The app has sent push alerts to around 2 million users in Russia with the message “Russia has invaded Ukraine”, with photos and information about the conflict, and videos created using the app are now watermarked with Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag.

“We understand that Russia has limited access to trustworthy media sources so we sent push notifications to all Russian users showing the real situation, and encouraging people to protest,” says Dima Shvets, CEO and founder of Kyiv-based Reface, which has been backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

Shvets says the app—which has been used by Elon Musk, Snoop Dog, and Dua Lipa to overlay their faces onto some else’s in videos and photos—had earnt a wave of 1-star reviews for its campaign but the Reface founder was undaunted. “We are risking everything, we’ve already got a lot of 1-star reviews, but it’s such a small price to pay compared to our lives and freedom,” he says.

The war in Ukraine has also inspired startups in other countries to take a stand. MessageBird, a Dutch Twilio rival, has cut off its Russian clients, along with British email marketing startup Omnisend, while money transfer service TransferGo also plugged the plug on Russia.

Along with the startups, other assistance has come from both tech giants and volunteers. And after a band of volunteer hackers began forming to help the invaded nation, websites for Russian websites including the Moscow Exchange and The Kremlin began going offline, leaving some to wondering who might be responsible. In the past few days, Ukraine has also called on companies such as Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Google to do more to assistant including cutting off business in Russia. Meanwhile, some supporters have given cryptocurrency as Ukraine’s official Twitter account asked for donations.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is among those that have responded to Ukraine’s request. When officials asked the billionaire over the weekend to active his Starlink satellite internet dishes, he agreed. And today—less than 48 hours later—Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation, posted photos showing a shipment had arrived.

“The first batch of StarLink satellite Internet stations has arrived in Ukraine,” Fedorov wrote on Facebook. “Thank you Elon Musk and all the partners of free Ukraine! We continue to fight on all fronts!”

Marty Swant

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