Welcome to the Hive blockchain! As you may have noticed there are a lot of things that you will need to figure out in order to start posting/using the Hive blockchain so I have put this Survival Guide together to possibly help those trying to navigate how to do so.

The first edition of the Hive Survival Guide can be found here: https://peakd.com/hive/@jacobpeacock/hive-survival-guide 

A French version of the first edition Hive Survival Guide can be found here: https://peakd.com/@laruche/traduction-guide-de-survie-de-hive 

It is worth noting that I will be updating this Survival Guide with the release of newer versions as I find new things that might be helpful and the platform continues to develop. If you think that something should be included in this guide please leave a link to it in the comments of this post so that I can review it for addition in the next version.

If you need a history lesson on why there is a new Hive blockchain then the following article provides a good summation of events: https://cointelegraph.com/news/steem-community-resists-takeover-hard-fork-launches-hive-network

If you already have a Steem account and just want a quick crash course on how to login into Hive with your Steem credentials then read this: [I Have A Steemit Account: How Do I Switch to Hive?](https://peakd.com/hivemarketing/@hivepeople/i-have-a-steemit-account-how-do-i-switch-to-hive)

If you are an absolute beginner then I recommend reading over the following guide so that you can gain some general understanding about the Hive blockchain: https://peakd.com/hive/@remotehorst23/hive-beginner-tutorial

Personally I highly recommend using the https://peakd.com interface and logging in via [Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/), or using the [Hive Keychain For Chrome, Opera, or Brave](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hive-keychain/jcacnejopjdphbnjgfaaobbfafkihpep) or [Hive Keychain For Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hive-keychain/) or [Hive Keychain On Github For Manual Installation](https://github.com/stoodkev/hive-keychain/tree/hive) or for mobile devices login using [PeakLock](https://peakd.com/hive-175001/@brittandjosie/do-you-use-steempeak-and-did-you-see-the-new-feature)

The official Hive sites are https://hive.blog and https://hive.io

PeakD Community on Hive: https://peakd.com/c/hive-163399/created

More PeakD information: https://peakd.com/hive-163399/@peakd/peakd-live

PeakD Witness page: https://peakd.com/me/witnesses

Detailed Witness information: https://hivekings.com/witnesses 

You can now give HIVE and HBD Tips via PeakD:
https://peakd.com/hive-163399/@peakd/tips-notifications-and-other-improvements 

Download and installation instructions for the Hive Keychain from Github: https://peakd.com/hive-keychain/@stoodkev/hive-keychain-1-8-4

How to use Hivesigner (Hive version of SteemConnect) 
https://peakd.com/hive/@good-karma/hivesigner-released-and-ready

Tutorial: Working with Hive Keychain and Steem Keychain. https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@deniskj/tutorial-working-with-hive-keychain-and-steem-keychain

How to use the Steem Keychain with Hive by changing the api endpoint: https://peakd.com/hive/@bitrocker2020/how-to-use-keychain-to-login-and-post-on-hive

How to view and change your Recovery Account:
https://peakd.com/witness-update/@engrave/review-your-recovery-account-if-you-dont-want-to-lose-your-assets

Hive Account Recovery: https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@netuoso/introducing-hive-account-recovery-hive-139531

Hive Account Recovery GUI:
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@reazuliqbal/hive-account-recovery-gui

Hive wallets for multiple platforms can be found here: https://hive.io/wallets/

Trade HIVE and HBD on the internal market:
https://wallet.hive.blog/market

Buy HIVE on BlockTrades: https://peakd.com/blocktrades/@blocktrades/blocktrades-adds-support-for-new-hive-cryptocurrency

STEEM and HIVE pairing on BlockTrades: https://peakd.com/blocktrades/@blocktrades/blocktrades-re-opens-support-for-selling-steem-e-g-steem-hive

Trade STEEM For HIVE on BlockTrades: https://blocktrades.us/trade

How to buy and sell HIVE on the Ionomy exchange:
https://peakd.com/hive/@timcliff/how-to-buy-and-sell-hive-tokens-using-the-ionomy-exchange

Invite people to join Hive: https://peakd.com/hive/@pharesim/announcing-hiveinvite

Tutorial: How to Remove & Make HivePower (HP) Delegations https://peakd.com/hive/@eddiespino/tutorial-how-to-remove-hivepower-hp-delegations-also-useful-of-you-want-to-make-a-delegation

SteemRSS is now HiveRSS and how to use it: https://peakd.com/hive/@torrey.blog/migration-announcement-steemrss-is-now-hiverss

HiveDesktop is a desktop application for the Hive blockchain:
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@holger80/hivedesktop-a-new-desktop-app-for-accessing-hive

HiveDesktop installers for Linux, OSX and Windows on Github:
https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/releases

HIVE Ticker Extension for GNOME desktop environment:
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@engrave/hive-ticker-extension-for-gnome-desktop-environment

Esteem desktop with Hive support: https://peakd.com/esteem/@esteemapp/esteem-desktop-2-2-5-hive-support-released

Get Esteem for iPhone, iPad and Android, Windows, Mac and Linux devices:
https://esteem.app/about#downloads

For more on Esteem read the Esteem FAQ 3.0: https://peakd.com/esteem/@esteemapp/faq

Hive-Now is a site for retrieving information and stats for a Hive account: https://hive-now.com/

Hive-Engine is Steem-Engine for Hive but with more features: 
https://hive-engine.com/

HE Explorer is a Hive-Engine blockexplorer:
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@reazuliqbal/he-explorer-hive-engine-explorer

HE Explorer on Github:
https://github.com/CodeBull/HiveEngineExplorer

Hive.Vote is Steemauto for hive: https://hive.vote/

A new Hive blockexplorer can be found here: https://hiveblocks.com

Another Hive blockexplorer: https://hive-db.com/

HIVE WHAT is a Hive blockchain Search & Directory:
https://hivewhat.com/

Hive2csv download Hive blockchain data in .CSV format:
https://hive2csv.lightproject.me/

Engage is a Hive Community management tool:
https://engage.hivechain.app/

Official Hive brand assets (images) can be found here: https://hive.io/brand/

Hive Image Kit: https://peakd.com/hive/@nateaguila/free-hive-badge-kit-and-other-ramblings

A list of current Hive projects can be found here: https://hiveprojects.io/

Hive dApps: https://hivedapps.com/

Hive developer portal: https://developers.hive.io/

Hive Javascript libraries: https://peakd.com/hive/@good-karma/javascript-libraries-are-ready-to-build-on-hive

HIVE compatible Steemfeed-JS: https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@someguy123/steemfeed-js-v3-1-0-released-easier-to-use-and-now-hive-compatible

Hivesigner Python Client: https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@emrebeyler/powering-up-2

Go-Hive is a Hive library for Go: https://git.sr.ht/~jrswab/go-hive

Hiveengine a python library for Hive-Engine:
https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@holger80/hiveengine-a-python-library-for-hive-engine-com

Hivescript is a script/json to keep app URL structure of all Hive apps: https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@good-karma/hivescript-for-canonical-links-and-seo

SuperHive is a  PHP blog engine for embedding Hive posts on a website: https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@bambukah/superhive-is-alive-hive-139531

### <center>**That is all for now!**</center>

The Official Hive Discord server can be found here:
 https://discord.gg/xHKUjeC

The Official PeakD Discord server can be found here: https://discord.gg/Fy3bca5

### Please keep in mind that the Hive blockchain and all its associated projects are new and there will undoubtedly be things to fix and stuff that does not work correctly as well as new features and new projects being developed. Give it time and please be patient with those developing the blockchain and the applications that run on it!

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<center>**Cheers and Happy Hiving!**</center>