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#### You start earning something right away on Hive

There are no 1000 subscriber thresholds like on YouTube or anything like that. You can start earning on your content from the first post on. Just post it to the right <a href="https://peakd.com/communities">Community</a> and it will be noticed by curators with large amounts of Hive Power capable of giving valuable upvotes. The quality of your content determines what it will earn.

#### You don't necessarily have to worry about search engine optimization at all on Hive

If you have a self-hosted blog, optimizing it for search engines is something you have to work on continuously because the rank of your site depends on your efforts alone.

#### Hive rewards you in its native cryptocurrency

Hive is a blockchain and it has a native cryptocurrency to reward its users for various types of valuable activities. Content rewards, both content creation and curation, are paid out according to the balance of upvotes and downvotes on content by stakeholders. Value is given to the HIVE token by cryptocurrency traders on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. On top of the usual content monetization methods, you can earn the native cryptocurrency. 

#### Hive offers a massive early adopter advantage

Consider the massive amount of work you have cut out for you when you start blogging on a popular platform or if you host your own blog in your own domain. To get any traction at all, you need to attract seriously large crowds of viewers. If you want to earn ad revenue between hundreds and thousands of dollars, you need millions of views. To have millions of views takes years of hard work and it may never work for you.

On Hive, the token inflation of the blockchain that is the back end or the data storage containing your posts, keeps going regardless of view counts or anything of that nature. What drives the monetary value of the tokens is the fact that they're being traded on several cryptocurrency exchanges globally. HIVE is considered a so-called altcoin, or an alternative coin (to Bitcoin), and it derives much of its valuation from having a trading pair with Bitcoin. Speculative trading on altcoins has driven their valuations much higher than their actual use currently justifies. 

How does that benefit you? Obviously, by Hive being a much less competitive environment than conventional platforms or self-hosted blogs. It's like using a platform that rewards its users generously and that has ridiculous amounts of venture capitalist funds backing it while still having a small user base. 

#### You can cross-post your material from other platforms

Because Hive only stores text (because storing binary files on a blockchain is not feasible), many Hive users who create vlogs, embed their videos on YouTube in their Hive posts. They interact with their followers on Hive but the videos are hosted on YouTube, which means you can easily monetize your videos on YouTube while getting Hive rewards also! It's so easy to do that there is no rational reason not to do it. There are successful Hive users who post great content on cryptocurrency and investing on YouTube and cross-post to Hive. Hive rewards tend to be even better if you post your content to 3speak.online, which is a video hosting service integrated with Hive.

#### There is no censorship on Hive

Because Hive is a blockchain, there is no single entity in control of it. No one has the ability to remove your content from the chain. Your follower relationships are also stored on chain, which means that no one can cut you off from your followers, which can happen on centralized mainstream platforms.

#### How to sign up?

General information about the ecosystem: https://hive.io/about

How to sign up: https://signup.hive.io/