Christmas in the Trenches: While the World Celebrated, Hive’s Cartel Farmed

Christmas in the Trenches: While the World Celebrated, Hive’s Cartel Farmed

Today was Christmas—a day of peace, of presence, of remembering what it means to be human.

At Bilpcoin, we gathered with loved ones.
We laughed. We rested. We gave thanks.
We honored the sacred pause that reminds us: we are more than our labor.

But on Hive.blog, the machines never slept.

While carols played and candles burned,
@TheMarkyMark, @buildawhale, and @hurtlocker were hard at work—
not building, not celebrating, not connecting—
but farming.

Scroll through their activity logs this Christmas Day, and you’ll see the truth:

• @buildawhale cast dozens of 100% votes on identical, auto-generated posts:

  “re-1766675402862674804-20251225t151150z”
  “re-1766675402862674804-20251225t151139z”
  “re-1766675402862674804-20251225t151129z”

  Each one earning 34+ HP in curation rewards.
  Not for creativity. Not for community.
  But for algorithmic obedience.

• @hurtlocker echoed the script—voting 10% on @TheMarkyMark’s posts,
  while simultaneously casting -1% nuisance votes on honest creators,
  reinforcing the illusion of “curation” while enforcing control.

• And @TheMarkyMark?
  Flooding the timeline with robotic comments,
  farming NVIDIA posts and “Block Bandits” updates,
  all while his allies—@mrtats, @valued-customer, @web3creative—voted in perfect lockstep.

This wasn’t celebration.
This was extraction on a holy day.

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The Soul of a Chain Is Revealed in Its Holidays

A healthy ecosystem rests.
It reflects.
It reconnects.

But a dying one?
It grinds.
It harvests.
It fears silence—because in silence, the truth becomes audible.

And the truth is this:
Hive is no longer a home for creators.
It is a factory farm, run by a cartel that confuses volume for value, votes for virtue, and power for purpose.

They don’t care about Christmas.
They don’t care about you.
They care only about the next curation payout—even on the day the world chooses kindness over capital.

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But There Is Sanctuary

While Hive’s whales farmed in the cold,
Blurt.blog held space for joy.

There, no one was downvoted for sharing a photo of their dog in a Santa hat.
No one was punished for posting a poem about hope.
No one had to watch their words like landmines.

Because on Blurt:

• There is no downvote button.
• What you earn, you keep.
• You are free—fully, finally, unconditionally.

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Final Word

Merry Christmas, again.
May your heart be light.
May your hands be kind.
And may you never trade your integrity for a few tokens harvested in the dark.

The future isn’t in farms.
It’s in freedom.
And that freedom has a name:
Blurt.blog.

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Bilpcoin: We don’t farm chains. We honor them.

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