Greetings and Salutations,

I am a new member of the Hive Community, although I must say I have followed this project with interest for a while. I first heard about this community from a friend, who talks about it all the time. So I feel like I know a little about it.

This DPOS model created by Dan Larimer has evolved and appears to have been the prototype decentralized finance tool, although few actually discus it in the way. From a academic point of view the smart contracts which underlie the functions like delegation, staking, three token versions of the same token, your stable coin and interest paid for depositing in savings, and from staking are very impressive. These are decentralized finance tools, which existed before the term decentralized finance was first used. (incredible)

This blockchain's original code may have been derived from others, but the current form and functionality appears far advanced from the original projects. The use of resource credits to deal with issues with fast free transactions is smart, the design of hardware dependent scaling is also a wise and interesting fork in the evolutionary tree of proof of stake blockchains. The delegated proof of stake system here or in your family tree may well have been the inspiration for other impressive POS or DPOS blockchains.  Add to this the development of your side chain with tokenized sub-communities and the word impressive seems an appropriate adjective to describe the complexity and level of development of this community.

I am studying cryptocurrency and the blockchain, hoping to become Blockchain Certified, and then tackle certified decentralized finance specialist certification. I forgot I will also get the Bitcoin Specialist certification also. I have a full time non-blockchain job, but for three years this has been my passion.

I have a particular interest in decentralized finance, so when I joined I took that as my name. I have been studying decentralized finance or DeFi as it is called. It is a fascinating new ecosystem to explore, it's like the AI or Artificial Intelligence of finance. I think this is an entirely new frontier.

I know posting is big here, but I would prefer to interact, ask questions, and learn from the experiences of this community. So please don't mistake my lack of productivity as disinterest. While I have plenty to say, the goal here is to soak up knowledge. 

I think thats enough for now. I haven't thought of some cool way to end my posts, so for now I will try this one of my friends use to say...

Peace out.

@defigeek

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