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				<title>What to Expect on Hive in 2025?
gadrian (75)in LeoFinance • 2 days ago (edited)
I was thinking to put together a post with what we know about the timeline of developments on Hive and what we should expect on Hive from this perspective from what I know, including some speculations, which may or may not materialize.

1. Hive Core Development
This includes two sides: the core apps like HAF, Hivemind and example applications, and changes that need witnesses consensus to be applied, thus a hard fork. There are also changes to the blockchain level that don&#039;t require a HF. For example, the ability to break a full account history file into multiple files, and keep the ones you want from the most recent, as a node operator. Please excuse if my language may not be precise, since I am not a witness and only recall this info as a simple user (with a technical background).

Also the work of @howo is included here. He may have finished the implementation of the API needed as a prerequisite for being listed to Coinbase by this time. As far as I know, he didn&#039;t have anything major going on other than that, but he always finds something else to work on rather quickly on the core side.



In 2024, the major focus for the Blocktrades team was on core apps and their applications and non-consensus changes, rather than on changes that require a hard fork. Last update discussed about the updated core apps being launched these days (last week to be more exact, but things could have chanced). So that&#039;s a lot of work that finally sees the light of day at the beginning of 2025.

Another focus has been on creating an API library for Hive apps, called WAX, based on the new technologies that have been rolled out. I expect that work to continue on a regular basis even for maintenance and updating purposes.

The HF seems to be pushed more like toward Q2. At the same time, Blocktrades expects their Lite Accounts API to be rolled out.

Past Q2 - and even in the meantime whoever gets freed from app development - we&#039;ll see what they&#039;ll focus on next.

2. VSC Network - Custom Smart Contracts on Hive
I haven&#039;t seen any recent updates, but the last ETA we know for this L2 platform anchored by Hive which everyone expects is Q1.

Apart from the possibility of creating custom smart contracts to Hive using various programming languages, VSC is going to feature a DEX with connection to the EVM chains and BTC, for starters, working with native coins instead of wrapped ones.

There are many benefits that are expected to derive for Hive from the launch of VSC, but likely some of them will take time to materialize into the desired products.

3. INLEO
Question or not some aspects about INLEO, they are a HUGE driving force for the progress we have on Hive, on many layers.

Their marketing push in 2025 may be conditioned by the approval of the DHF proposal they currently have going on, but their development isn&#039;t. So we can be sure they&#039;ll have plenty of new developments in 2025, many of them described in the above mentioned proposal.

It&#039;s interesting that Blocktrades said we need to spend more DHF funds, not less, for Hive to prosper, something he learned from his business experience.

4. Splinterlands
Splinterlands has slated a couple of major projects in the Q1 and Q2 of this year. We are talking about a new game mode, the next version in the Land development, the mobile apps, validators, onboarding experience, and glamour and cosmetics. All big things! All impactful. If we count that Q2 starts with a new core set too, they have a lot going on.

I think it&#039;s still too quiet around Splinterlands when we think about to what is coming.

Note that they haven&#039;t even pushed any major marketing campaign yet, which has been funded by the DHF. My thinking is they are waiting to have at least the onboarding experience where they want before they kick start it. That includes the mobile apps. Maybe they want the validators launched before that too, but they should already be ready.

5. Distriator
The network of Distriator continues to expand. Their model certainly picked up, particularly in certain geographical areas.

What I&#039;d like to include here, though, is more of a speculation, based on what @starkerz mentioned in a podcast.

Currently, Distriator&#039;s cashback works for brick-and-mortar businesses and posting proof of purchase within 30 minutes of making the purchase, if I remember well. Matt said they are thinking to expand the model to purchases made online.

6. Golem Overlord
Golem Overlord is a game that started as a replica of TerraCore, but quickly developed to have its own identity and now a second game mode, PvP. It is actively developed and I&#039;m curious what 2025 will bring for this game.

7. Holozing
Not clear when Holozing gameplay will be launched, but it will most likely be this year. It is the most expected game on Hive in recent period. Let&#039;s hope everything will be fine.

Hive and Competition
Web 2 started to move in onto the monetization of the smaller-medium creators. We need to be careful. The market for censorship resistance isn&#039;t so big yet, but it&#039;s growing.

In fact, I believe each of us have our own battles to fight. For them, it&#039;s to stay in control and shape up the future of interaction online, for us, to become relevant in the social space online.

Hive and AI
I don&#039;t see a relevant future of Hive that doesn&#039;t include AI, in different forms. We can choose a future without AIs on Hive (or parts of Hive), but it would be like in today&#039;s world one would choose to ignore smart phones, with all their good and bad facets.

Our text-based blockchain makes it highly suitable for training LLMs, which being a permissionless blockchain, probably has happened and will happen, whether we want it or not.

We may choose to set up our own LLMs or not, and under our own rules and preferences, but we can&#039;t really stop ANY other LLM from training on our data, if they want to.

LeoAI, INLEO&#039;s LLM based on one of the chatgpt models (they may have changed it) and additionally trained on Hive data, may or may not come out in full force in 2025. It is probably already used in production in certain areas (probably the &quot;for you&quot; feed), but the chat or the copilot-like (for posting) parts are not available publicly yet.

Ending Words
We have many projects that continue to be developed and if we make snapshots every year, we might be surprised how much they change in a year, or how many additional projects they work on (Peak Open projects are an interesting case, Hive Keychain is also continuously developed).

Other projects may not have a high development rhythm, but they are there, reliable, when you need them.

There are also the smaller projects, ran by 1 or a few people, often building communities around them. While maybe they don&#039;t look impressive to be in the spotlight, some of them have serious people behind, thinking long term.

What else do you think will put their mark on 2025 for Hive?

Posted Using INLEO

#hive-2025#hive-core#vsc#inleo#proofofbrain#hive-engine#bbh
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[-]steevc (79) 2 days ago  
There&#039;s so much going on and it can be hard to keep up. Some of the descriptions people give of their projects can be a bit technical and so it&#039;s hard to see the benefits. We do need to invest in development to move forward and it&#039;s up to the community to decide who they trust to do it.

The better $HIVE price is likely to get people excited and maybe stick around more. I&#039;m definitely using other platforms less as they get more annoying. What I definitely don&#039;t want to see is lots of &#039;AI&#039; generated content, but it can have uses to finding what we like.

Cheers!

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
It certainly can be a lot to track. And I agree, some projects may be important or useful, but if there isn&#039;t an easy way to present them to a wider audience, there is still the targeted audiences where they&#039;ll find people interested.

We do need to invest in development to move forward and it&#039;s up to the community to decide who they trust to do it.

Trust is a factor when deciding where funding goes.

The better $HIVE price is likely to get people excited and maybe stick around more.

Yep, Hive pumps made people excited again, and had the interesting effect (along with high trading volumes) to get us more listings and more eye balls from the outside, among people mostly interested in trading for the short term.

I&#039;m definitely using other platforms less as they get more annoying.

They are getting annoying, for sure.

What I definitely don&#039;t want to see is lots of &#039;AI&#039; generated content, but it can have uses to finding what we like.

I have no problem with AI-generated content with one condition: that it is made clear it is AI-generated. Also, if the quality is sub-par, not a well-trained model, a testing period, etc. it should have declined rewards. I would prefer the testing and adjustments of a model to be made on private servers, until it is ready to be made public on-chain, if it can be interacted with.

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[-]tht (68) 2 days ago  
Thanks for the useful post.

Hive may not be listed on Coinbase, but it wouldn&#039;t be a surprise if it were listed on a major exchange like OKX.

The Holozing game has been on our agenda for a long time. The expectation is high, I hope the game lives up to it.

A few days ago, the strategy game Crownrend was quietly announced. I started playing it and I think it&#039;s fun. The interest in the game is high.

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
but it wouldn&#039;t be a surprise if it were listed on a major exchange like OKX.

If we start pumping again on major volume, I don&#039;t see why they would continue to ignore such a business opportunity for them. It&#039;s not like they should expect business to continue to go up, with the rise of DEXes.

The Holozing game has been on our agenda for a long time. The expectation is high, I hope the game lives up to it.

Yep. I tend to believe it will be quite different from the usual card games we have on Hive, and with the support it has, it should be a success, particularly if they launch at least playable alpha or beta soon-ish.

A few days ago, the strategy game Crownrend was quietly announced. I started playing it and I think it&#039;s fun. The interest in the game is high.

I know. I play it too, since a few hours after launch. But I thought it&#039;s too fresh to include it on that list. We&#039;ll see down the road how the game progresses.

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[-]scion02b (56) 2 days ago  
I wonder if there is any central repository of Hive news. I&#039;ve been looking for updates like this. Thanks!

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
Well... I don&#039;t consider it a central repository for Hive news, since Hive is decentralized and lots of things happen in different corners for one person to cover them, but I write &quot;Week through Adrian&#039;s Lenses&quot; every Friday which is primarily focused on Hive news.

Others provide their own interpretation of Hive news. @steevc writes such a post every Friday too.

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[-]takhar (67) 18 hours ago  
Thanks for this compilation! I think 2025 will also be an active year for Hive, especially in terms of developments, the VSC project and the continued growth of INLEO is what I&#039;m mostly looking forward to. Haven&#039;t had the time to delve into Hive games yet.

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[-]gadrian (75) 16 hours ago  
INLEO for sure will keep developing. VSC we hope to see it out soon so that users can poke around and &quot;break stuff&quot; lol. And for it to be included into other major apps on Hive.

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[-]basilmarples (65) 2 days ago  
@theycallmedan was talking about the Ragnarok game and saying hes giving out lots of rewards to contributers in 2025, so that could be a great opportunity for devs and testers to get involved in a project this year. Check out his latest 3speak post if youre interested.
Im super psyched for VSC.
Game changing potency.

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[-]gadrian (75) 21 hours ago  
Thanks! I listened to his video after publishing my post. I hope to see Ragnarok in 2025 too. It&#039;s been kind of on the back-burner for some time.

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[-]vimukthi (75) 23 hours ago  
HIVE is swapping places with Galxe for #1 spot in SocialFi and it is #7 in gaming blockchains. We might even make it to Top 100 out of all cryptocurrency if the markets prove favorable. All of that is going to create a great deal of exposure. The biggest missing piece at the moment is marketing. We need to go big and let ourselves be known to the world. Brave Ads can be very expensive; but effective at the same time. I have discovered many projects through Brave Ads.

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[-]gadrian (75) 20 hours ago  
Inleo has done a ton of marketing. But they are marketing Inleo and/with their partners, not Hive directly. I imagine some do not like that, as they did not like it with Splinterlands. However, it is what works.

I don&#039;t know what Inleo&#039;s marketing plans are if they don&#039;t receive the DHF funding or only part of it.

Splinterlands will start their marketing too.

About Brave ads, I&#039;m not sure. That&#039;s not a targeted audience, and, as you said, they aren&#039;t cheap. Matt said they didn&#039;t work well for Splinterlands.

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[-]vimukthi (75) 20 hours ago  
Blockchain should be marketed to developers and DAPPs should be marketed to users. Whales better open their eyes to this fact that has been evident throughout multiple market cycles. People use internet just fine without even knowing what JavaScript is. We need something users will engage with regularly. Microblogging and gaming are perfect for this task. These users could later become investors.

Matt said they didn&#039;t work well for Splinterlands.

I didn&#039;t know they had Brave Ads. Thank you for this information.

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[-]gadrian (75) 16 hours ago  
Blockchain should be marketed to developers and DAPPs should be marketed to users.

I have the same opinion. VSC could be marketed to both, when it is launched. Although, in the long-term, I expect VSC itself to be marketed to devs and investors, while apps that use VSC to be marketed to users, for example.

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[-]vaultec (65) 6 hours ago  
Keep in mind VSC has an end user product, for now called &quot;altera&quot; - which is an end user application designed to provide the experience of a traditional bank for Crypto users. That&#039;ll also be a source of onboarding and marketing opportunity

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[-]jfang003 (75) 23 hours ago  
I have no idea but I think VSC and the core development on hive is quite interesting. I guess AI will probably get involved at some point, but I don&#039;t know if that will happen this year.

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[-]gadrian (75) 20 hours ago  
The core development may not seem very exciting for the regular users, but it&#039;s good thinking about the scalability of the ecosystem when many more users will be around.

VSC, I guess we need to start using to get really excited about. &#x1f600;

About AI, we may very well see more rollouts of LeoAI on Hive in 2025, at least.

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[-]dlmmqb (72) 2 days ago  
VSC network will open many new doors...

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago (edited) 
We all hope so. And if things go well, it&#039;s so close.

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[-]danielvehe (76) 2 days ago  
This is a great summary. My focus is on VSC, Inleo and Distriator. I lost hope with Splinterlans.

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
Thanks! Let&#039;s see how this year goes for Splinterlands. It might surprise us, although something like 2021 is a too high level to compare with.

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[-]behiver (75) 2 days ago  
Great summary of expected developments. Appreciated!

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
Thank you! And I appreciate you coming over and your comment.

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[-]davedickeyyall (77) 2 days ago  
Well since @blocktrades likes to spend DHF funds how about 20 HBD a day to cover my cannabis use on #themorningbowl?

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s what he had in mind, but we have seen some niche projects being funded indirectly via Value Plan. Purchasing cannabis for someone&#039;s personal use may not be among their top priorities though.

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[-]davedickeyyall (77) 2 days ago  
But... I&#039;m sharing the cannabis with the blockchain.. I do it all for HIVE..

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
I think it&#039;s a healthy doze of humor and irony in your words.

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[-]davedickeyyall (77) 8 hours ago  
Extra healthy.. like kale ice-cream

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gadrian (75)in LeoFinance • 2 days ago (edited)<br />
I was thinking to put together a post with what we know about the timeline of developments on Hive and what we should expect on Hive from this perspective from what I know, including some speculations, which may or may not materialize.</p>
<p>1. Hive Core D&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-4148"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitcoinmyk.com/activity/p/4148/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read More</a></span></p>
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My Hive Goals (Week 50, 2024)
gadrian (75)in LeoFinance • 2 days ago
This is a short sum-up table with the state of my goals in easier TLDR form. The table has only a general overview, with details expanded in the post.

Current State/Other Selection Criterion	Goals Matching the Criterion
Ongoing	3 (HBD Savings Bull Market End Goal, Posting &#038; Commenting Goal, Staked SPS)
Main Goals	3 (HBD Savings Bull Market End Goal, Posting &#038; Commenting Goal, Land Plots Unlocked)
Goals	4 (ZING Multiplier, LEO Staking, Increase Grain PP, Staked SPS)
Temporary Goals	1 (HIVE Purchased Below 20c)
Main Goals Completed	1 (Land Plots Unlocked)
Goals Completed	3 (ZING Multiplier, Increase Grain PP, LEO Staked)
Temp Goals Completed	1 (HIVE Purchased Below 20c)
Main Goals Replaced	1 (52-Week HBD Savings Challenge -&#062; HBD Savings Bull Market End Goal [replaced after week 33 of the challenge])


I include a link to the initial goal-setting post for 2024, for reference, if needed.

HBD in Savings at the Bull Market End Goal: 5,000 HBD
This multi-year goal morphed from what previously was the 52-week HBD Savings challenge, which was stopped (after week 33).

This is a longer term goal and I don&#039;t expect regular pushes toward the target, but rather no or low activity for most of the time, and bursts of HBD added in short time spans later on, toward the end of the bull market.

Given the pullback in the price of HIVE, I used my HBD from author rewards this way this week:

2/3 to buy more HIVE
1/3 added to the HBD in savings goal
Current situation of this multi-year goal (mostly intended for 2025):



HIVE Purchased Below 20c - Completed
This was a temporary goal, HIVE-oriented:

Buy at least 50 HIVE every week while the price of HIVE is below 20 cents
Final situation of HIVE purchases during this temporary goal:

Total HIVE Purchased: 705.731 (not updated with purchases after the goal was considered completed)



Posting &#038; Commenting Goal
I haven&#039;t missed a daily post this year yet. Reached 2005 posts published, which means I hit my target for 2024 without missing a post yet. I was more conservative when setting my goal, thinking I won&#039;t be able to post daily this year, but looks like I am about to do that...

Here&#039;s the situation so far:



I haven&#039;t missed any edition of Week through Adrian&#039;s Lenses in 2024 either, and I mention this since it&#039;s also part of my posting goal. Overall, I reached the 101st edition of the weekly roundup which debuted at the beginning of 2023. I still need to publish this news update post for the remaining 2 weeks to have this completed as well.

I also started the week with 21,104 comments made. Ended the week with 21186 which means I made 82 comments last week. I don&#039;t expect to complete this one.

Overall, I expect my social goals to be mostly completed at the year end, except comments made, which will likely be somewhere in high 80%.

LEO Staked - Completed
Goal of 25000 staked LEO achieved in week 42 (started from the beginning of the year).

Here&#039;s the final situation (not updated with new power ups until the year end):



I participated at the last LPUD of 2024 with 150 LEO.

Splinterlands: 200k Staked SPS
Goal started in week 39 with roughly 180k SPS (before staking liquid SPS).

I started last week with 196,018 SPSP and finished it with 197,361 SPSP, which means I added 1,343 SPSP last week and today.

I need an average of roughly 1,320 SPS weekly to complete this goal in 2024, which means this week was average.

Here&#039;s the situation so far:



Splinterlands: Increase Grain PP to 400,000 - Completed
Goal started in week 19 and competed in week 39.

Which is the final status for this target?



Final grain production was 411,721 PP.

The major bottleneck for me here is and has always been for land staked DEC.

Land Plots Unlocked - Completed
Goal completed in Week 18, with the following situation at the time:

73 plots were productive and 27 were still under construction.



All plots are productive as of week 35. Now I need way more DEC to stake better PP cards on my lower-end land plots.

ZING Multiplier - Completed
Goal completed in week 10 with 25,203 ZING.

Since then, I slowly grew my stash from staking and collection rewards (achievements) only.

We have a new Advent Calendar event. This time, we receive the soul-bound resource called Holo dust, every day we claim rewards. At the end of the challenge we&#039;ll receive an achievement too.

My ZING holdings are now at 59,103.

This was the final situation when the goal was achieved, I won&#039;t keep updating it:



Want to check out my collection of posts?

It&#039;s a good way to pick what interests you.

Posted Using InLeo Alpha

#myhivegoals#hbd#splinterlands#sps#spt#hive-engine#cent#bbh
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[-]jfang003 (75) yesterday  
It&#039;s nice to see that you are working on that HBD goal again. It looks like land is sucking up most of your DEC.

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[-]gadrian (75) yesterday  
I don&#039;t produce any DEC anymore... Not as long as I have the SPS goal still going, at least.

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[-]thebighigg (73) 2 days ago  
Great job! That HBD is slowly piling up! It will feel great to have 5K HBD!

Have the land plots in Splinterlands been worthwhile? I never purchased any and I&#039;ve heard mixed reviews.

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[-]gadrian (75) 2 days ago  
Have the land plots in Splinterlands been worthwhile? I never purchased any and I&#039;ve heard mixed reviews.

The rewards so far don&#039;t justify the cards or the DEC locked or the plots. This remains a vague promise for the future...

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[-]josediccus (81) yesterday  
Just over 2k SPS to hit 200k. Did you buy the 1k plus SPS you staked in the week before or did you earn them from involvement in the game?

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[-]gadrian (75) yesterday  
I usually end up buying 300-400 SPS every week to reach the minimum guideline every week to meet my target. The rest are earned.

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[-]josediccus (81) yesterday  
That&#039;s amazing, I didn&#039;t know, you&#039;ll probably get to that target sooner than later

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[-]gadrian (75) 22 hours ago  
I think I&#039;ll get to it right at the year end, as planned. The rewards don&#039;t fluctuate very much to consider a different outcome.

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My Hive Goals (Week 50, 2024)<br />
gadrian (75)in LeoFinance • 2 days ago<br />
This is a short sum-up table with the state of my goals in easier TLDR form. The table has only a general overview, with details expanded in the post.</p>
<p>Current State/Other Selection Criterion	Goals Matching the Criterion<br />
Ongoing	3 (HBD Savings Bull Market End Goal, P&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-4127"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitcoinmyk.com/activity/p/4127/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read More</a></span></p>
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				<title>Getting Ready for Sollar Energy
gadrian (74)in LeoFinance • 6 days ago
Renewable energy generation and usage has been increasing pretty much everywhere in the world. They are practically infinite sources of energy that don&#039;t need to replenish over long periods of time (unlike oil, coal, natural gas, or uranium), and they are friendly with the environment.

I&#039;m sure most of you know, but just for the context, this is what is considered renewable energy:

solar energy
wind energy
hydro power
geothermal energy
biomass energy
tidal and wave energy
green hydrogen (splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using electricity from a renewable energy source)
In our country, there has been quite a movement in the population to install photovoltaic panels on the roofs of their houses to capture the solar energy. It&#039;s true, this movement was amplified by government subsidies in a program that has supported people becoming prosumers. The program has been going on for some years, and renewed yearly so far.


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In my neighborhood, most houses have solar panels installed. I can&#039;t say just by looking at them how many were installed by accessing the funding of this program and how many on their own, or a combination of the two. For example, my immediate neighbors (their house next to ours), did both. They installed parts of the solar panels through the program, and then installed more entirely self-funded. One condition to participate in this program is to not be funded in a program from one of the previous years. Otherwise, everyone would apply yearly to extend their installed power at no or minimum costs.

I haven&#039;t been able to apply yet, mainly because we wanted to redo the roof first. Which we did. Its shape, more than its quality was an issue for us regarding the installment of solar panels.

Now we are ready to apply to the program that will start shortly. I started to gather the needed documents, and tomorrow I&#039;ll probably have the last missing piece, but I&#039;ll go over everything one more time afterwards to make sure.

The online application itself to this program is a very stressful event, as everything ends in a few minutes and often not all applicants get funded. For example, not all applicants from last year were funded, and from my understanding, if they apply again, they have priority. My neighbor caught this funding in the 3rd year... But my brother-in-law caught it from the first year, so it matters how quickly you move when entering documents.

Compared to previous years, in this year&#039;s program it is mandatory to install batteries as well. Which I think is a great deal! It reduces the dependency on the national electricity grid, and if consumption and production balance out over different times of day and seasons, one can opt out of the national grid. I know people who have done that. It also increases the decentralization of the electricity production and storage, which is important in so many ways given the high dependency we have on electricity in our modern times.

If everything goes well, I&#039;ll probably have my solar panels installed and working by... next year? Oh well... much better than after 3 or 4 years, lol.

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[-]jfang003 (75) 5 days ago  
I think we are moving towards making more energy with things like solar but I wonder if it can keep up with how technology evolves. It requires more and more energy for things like AI. The process by the government is quite slow. My parents got the panels installed but the battery is still on hold after half a year.

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[-]gadrian (74) 5 days ago  
They surely won&#039;t make a dent for the AI or POW electricity needs. For them, a different kind of approach is needed. But it helps decentralizing the electricity network a bit, at least for home consumers.

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[-]libertycrypto27 (79) 6 days ago  
@tipu curate

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[-]tipu (67) 6 days ago  
Upvoted &#x1f44c; (Mana: 8/48) Liquid rewards.

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[-]gadrian (74) 5 days ago  
Thanks for the curation!

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[-]josediccus (81) 5 days ago  
So are you trying to say you can actually get the solar installed for free through a government program, or is it that it&#039;s cheaper when you apply through the government?

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[-]gadrian (74) 5 days ago  
It is subsidized 90% to install solar panels and batteries. The max sum of the subsidy is roughly 6680 USD this year, but one can surpass that amount at their expense, so it&#039;s not a limit, other than for how much you can get for nearly free.

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[-]josediccus (81) 4 days ago  
Oh, I understand, but it&#039;s still a bargain, and a food offer

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[-]gadrian (74) 4 days ago  
Absolutely! That&#039;s why it is so popular.

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[-]alokkumar121 (81) 5 days ago  
It&#039;s good to go for the solar energy and even in my country govt is encouraging people to install rooftop solar system. Glad that you&#039;re planning for this and with program subsidy it will be a better deal for you. Share more about it once you get it done.

I am also planning this next year and there are certain conditions I need to meet if I go for the subsidy and if not then I can got anything on my own.

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[-]gadrian (74) 5 days ago  
It&#039;s definitely a better deal than doing it on your own, even if it takes longer and it involves many procedures, documents and a few stages to complete. But, that&#039;s usually the case when you deal with the govt. Good to hear you&#039;re planning to install your own rooftop solar system.

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[-]theringmaster (63) 6 days ago  
I can imagine how stressful the application process would be. I hope the process goes smooth. I think I&#039;ll start considering solar pretty soon

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[-]gadrian (74) 6 days ago  
Yeah, it surely will be and hopefully I&#039;ll get the funding.

I think I&#039;ll start considering solar pretty soon

My sister should already receive money as a prosumer instead of paying for electricity, but they don&#039;t consume much electricity at home except maybe on week-ends. But the investment is paid back after many years if you don&#039;t have access to such a subsidy program.

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[-]theringmaster (63) 6 days ago  
That&#039;s a very cool program in my opinion wow... Everything will go well for you brother

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[-]gadrian (74) 6 days ago  
It is, or it wouldn&#039;t be so popular, often in the ranks of the middle class.

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[-]theringmaster (63) 5 days ago  
I guess so too brother&#x1f914;

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[-]bisolamih (60) 6 days ago  
Solar energy is something that so many people should consider now
It’s not that it is getting popular but it feels good to get energy from nature which is sun
It’s better

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[-]gadrian (74) 5 days ago  
Solar energy is abundant (when or where there is sun), and can help create more clean energy, for sure.

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[-]mfontom (64) 6 days ago  
Congratulations

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