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111.jpgThis post is going to be slightly longer than usual.

That being said, I would need to ask you, my dear readers, to stay with me for next 10 minutes to read through it as it is a very personal and important subject that I would love to introduce you to - our small non-commercial project.

INTRODUCTION to "project #HOPE"

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It has been over 3 months since, and together with @juanmolina and a few other amazing steemit users (@fucho80, @lanzjoseg, @jadams2k18) have come up with our own unique initiative. A new idea has been born and a non-commercial project called "project #HOPE" had it's birthday. And today I would like to share some of the details about our initiative, hoping to receive some extra attention and support.

The main idea of this project was to help small group of valuable content creators and curators from Venezuela to find ways of supporting themselfs financially. Please allow me to quote a part of my own post from that time:

"Instead of supporting you with $$$ I would like to try to help you secure some online job position (I have some contacts I could try to use) as a social media marketer or an author within the crypto industry. I would slowly pass some of my knowledge onto you and help you grow your follower base. You in return would continue supporting my own efforts of building a community on steemit.

I would support you financially with 25 STEEM (around 10$) weekly. Mostly to ensure that you can invest more time to progress with your own work on Steemit and you wouldn't have to work much as a cab driver / any other dangerous jobs.

This could potentially give you all more hope that your future will be brighter.

I will not require reporting and I will not act like I'm your boss. We need to make it clear - I want to support your growth but each one of you must be your own "driving force".

HOW DOES IT SOUND SO FAR?

Full article:
https://steemit.com/projecthope/@coach.piotr/project-hope-day-one

Project #HOPE'S INITIAL GOALS

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Within the first few weeks, we've managed to organize a small team and set up some initial objectives. We all seem to agree on the fact that the biggest problem we're facing on Steemit is the constant "shrinking" of our community. Quality authors are giving up on creating and publishing their content simply because they struggle with building their audience.

Which isn't that suprrissing. After all would anyone who continues posting quality content, knowing that your financial rewards will not be worth it and on top of that your posts are "invisible"? Noone reads, noone comments, it can be very discouraging.

I've witnessed so many great authors giving up and it was clear to me, that it is simply not possible to reward all of them financially. Those who came on Steemit because of money would most likely abandon this platform sooner or later. Dissapointed greately. And there is really nothing we can do to stop them.

However I also realized, that many people would actually stay if they would manage to build some sort of audience, get some visibility and exposure to their posts. Many of us care about engaging with others. Having some readers, who drop valuable comments is good enough for most of us to stay and continue our work on Steemit platform.

Wouldn't you agree?

WHAT WE MANAGED TO ACHIEVE SO FAR?

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Within those few months our entire team, though small has been determined to look for those authors, who not only create valuable content but mostly those who are engaging back with their audience. And we've focused our efforts on "curating" theirs publications (meaning: reading and commenting on their recent posts).

By now many of you already know @juanmolina , @fucho80, @lanzjoseg, @jadams2k18 quite well and I think we have all learned to appreciate their work.

FUTURE of PROJECT HOPE?

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All those 4 Venezuelans have enourmous knowledge and life experiences (two of them were even university profesors) but living in Venezuela during the current economic crisis isn't giving them many opportunities to earn enough to survive and feed their families.

So 3 months ago, I decided to allocate over 1000usd from my own personal budget and and buy some STEEM, which I'm using to support all of them financially on a weekly basis. Their only job is to focus on building their own accounts on Steemit and engaging with others.

Obviously sooner or later those resources will finish (we're already half way) and we all need to figure out what to do once we reach that point. We still have another few months ahead of us and my goal is to "stretch" this period as much as possible.

And guess what? I came up with an "perfect" idea and today I NEED YOUR HELP :)

JOIN OUR EFFORTS + PALnet airdrop claim

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Please do not worry. I won't ask for money :)
I would only ask about few minutes of your valuable time. And trust me - your support can make a huge difference for our small but dedicated team.

But before I continue, I would need to change the topic for a little while and tell you about PALnet platform and their current PAL coin airdrop. So please stay with me few more minutes. Ok?

Have you ever heard about https://www.palnet.io/ ? It's a platform visually very similar to Steemit. Just like other front-ends, it's build on STEEM blockchain but it uses their own PAL token to reward autors and curators. Pretty cool, right?

Currently PALnet is in the process of promoting their platform and building it's audience by well organized airdrop. You may wonder: how does it matter? how is it related to project #hope and all those venezuelans? Right? Trust me. It really is :)

Please let me explain the best way I can.

I would like to encourage each one of you to claim your own PAL tokens and delegate/stake them to @crypto.piotr (instead of selling them). I'm planning to use my PALnet.io voting power to upvote valuable comments of all 4 of those Venezuelans and in a way providing them with some extra means of surviving in the future.

It's kind of a win-win scenario.Our small team will bring more value into PALnet platform, since we will focus our efforts on building engagement and commenting on posts with "palnet" hashtag and encouraging those people to hold to their PAL coins (instead of trading it on the market).

At the same time @juanmolina , @fucho80, @lanzjoseg, @jadams2k18 will continue building quality engagement and will be manually rewarded with PAL coins and upvotes. That would allow them to become more financially independent and also ensure that our limited resources would last longer, allowing us to continue with project #hope.

HOW DOES IT SOUND?

ps. Claiming PAL tokens is very simple and you can find instruction below on top of comment section (airdrop will last till 7th July).

FINAL WORDS

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Currently it's all just an idea and I would gladly hear your feedback (I read, comment and upvote all valuable replies). I appreciate any help we can receive and on behalf of all those Venezuelans, I would like to thank you all for reading this post and for your support.

So please, drop a comment and let me know what do you all think.

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I would also appreciate if you could consider RESTEEMing this post.

I'm also setting 30 STEEM-BOUNTY on this post to show my appreciation to all those who would support our cause with interesting comment.

Yours,
Piotr

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From my point of view the platform / community Palnet.io has been consolidated in a very short time in a positive way the preference of many users of steemit.

Personally I have been part of your Discordapp PAL server (Peace, Abundance, Liberty) for about 1 year. This motivated by users like @isaria, @meno and initiatives like @msp-music that took me to know about this project before it came out on its own platform.

This initiative that our very dear friend @crypto.piotr raises, would be a way to give practical use to our PAL tokens since they will be used constantly and we will receive our return on investment instead of having them inactive in our account. At the same time you will be collaborating with this valuable action called Project HOPE that is helping families in need in Venezuela.

Again I think that this idea of Piotr will be well received by all his friends.

Dear friend @crypto.piotr, my regards, my respect for you.

Once again you demonstrate your capacity for leadership, your vision of the future and selfless desire to support those who need growth on this platform, your attitude is praiseworthy, worthy of admiration and imitation.

Precisely now that I am about to publish an article where I mention Project Hope as an alternative to get many creators to remain on the platform to you, this brilliant idea occurs to you.

Friend, definitely steemit needs a million piotr to give themselves the task of supporting content creators who are forced to abandon by any situation.

For my part, I reiterate my commitment to this platform, to cure quality content and to strive every day to achieve a more human, conscious and sensitive community in this ecosystem.

Congratulations leader, you are a great human being.

Precisely now that I am about to publish an article where I mention Project Hope

Share link with me once you publish it :)

you are a great human being.

Amazing to know that :)

Yours
Piotr

What an inspiring project you've got going! This benefits so many people I'm glad to be able to help out in whatever little way I can, which is mainly just through upvotes. I also enjoy that it benefits those negatively affected in countries like Venezuela.

I would like to help out some of the newer recruits to this program, not that the current ones don't need the help, but if there are new folks coming on board with this, I would like to help them along and gain some more traction.

Dear @cmplxty

I would like to help out some of the newer recruits to this program, not that the current ones don't need the help, but if there are new folks coming on board with this, I would like to help them along and gain some more traction.

I much appreciate your kind comment. Right now I'm trying to find ways of supporting in a long run those 4 guys and it's not easy, so I don't think I will be getting more new folds on board anytime soon :) However I absolutely appreciate your suggestion.

Have a great upcoming weekend buddy,
Yours, Piotr

Sounds good my friend, I’ll support them when I can then! If the program expands, certainly let me know.

Do you know about the Steem basic income project? That’s another amazing method of helping to support others. I’ve helped some folks on here, mainly swayzilla right now, by sponsoring them with shares in the project. If you send 1 Steem to them you gain 1 share and they give the person you are sponsoring one share as well. They then upvote you and the people you sponsor when the value of the shares gets above the .025 dust threshold.

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Hi @cmplxty

Thx for sharing that info about SBI. I tried it in the past but I found it a bit hard to understand :) I may try again :)

Cheers
Piotr

Dear @cmplxty

Thank you very much for your support and for your contribution, no matter how small it may be for the Venezuelans, it is a great help, here in Venezuela we multiply it in order to help other more destitute people who do not have access to the network and do not know this world of opportunities.

Greetings from Venezuela

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Can you and your followers please stop wallet spamming everybody? I understand that it's working for you, but you need to think bigger picture. How would it be if every active Steemian spammed your wallet on a regular basis with their posts?

I can't speak for others, but I wouldn't mind 50,000 STEEM users spamming me 0.002 STEEM every day ;-)

I suppose there are worse things...

I got multiple spam messages about this post, from different users.

Great reply, I don't really consider it spam it's just info in a wallet, I'm no one here anyway.
When I first joined I got flagged, banned what ever you want to call it, I called "censorship" for liking content someone else in power did not approve of and got on a hit list from them until my post disappeared. I'm hear to read content and now I can only delegate to continue to grow.
I like this project and will spend some time today to look into it and help.
Peace
Pappy

Dear @immortal1663

Thank you for your valuable comment. I also do not consider memos a spam, however I respect the fact that some people have different opinion and do not like receiving them. Especially if those people have some decent amount of SP ;)

When I first joined I got flagged, banned what ever you want to call it, I called "censorship" for liking content someone else

That's just awful. Steemit is full of local warlords who are bulling others. :/

Have a great upcoming weekend,
Yours
Piotr

It's me again @immortal1663

Did you by any chance claim your PALnet tokens? I would appreciate if you could consider delegating/staking them to my account. Aidrop will finish in 2 days.

Hope I can count on your support :)
Piotr

I did not get the time to look into this my friend. I do have funds, is it possible to purchase PALnet Tokens and stake them with you for this project?
Sincerely,
Pappy

Hi @pibara

Does Steemit even have 50k active users? Any idea?

Yours
Piotr

lol, a stat I saw today said Steemit has over one million accounts. Problem is, with most of the big boys having multiple accounts (some I've seen have about 50), the stat becomes meaningless.

I did look at PALnet but when I saw so much of it centres around communicating via chat, I withdrew. I do not like that chat site and I do not have time for chatting, so that they can sell my chats to marketing companies.

Dear @arthur.grafo

Problem is, with most of the big boys having multiple accounts (some I've seen have about 50), the stat becomes meaningless.

You nailed it. I honesly wonder how small is really our steemit community.

I did look at PALnet but when I saw so much of it centres around communicating via chat,

You don't need to enter chat. Just:

a) login in http://palnet.io/ (it's build on STEEM blockchain, so you will use same login details)
b) login in steem-engine.com
c) claim your tokens -> to do that you would need to open steem-engine.com and go to "wallet". In the left-top hand corner you will have PALnet (blue colour) logo. Click on it and claim your PAL tokens.

I would appreciate if you could consider delegating/staking them to my PALnet.io account. It shouldn't take more than few minutes of your time. And really, entering chat is nod needed.

Aidrop will finish in 2 days. Hope I can count on your support :)
Yours, Piotr

This is how far I managed to get:

I don't know what to do now, as nothing seems to be happening/working on the page

Hi @arthur.grafo

Thanks for trying. I also do not know what to do now. I appreciate your time.

Piotr

I was hoping I would get some advice before closing the pages. I cannot wait any longer and I doubt I will be in time for an airdrop, since it ends soon.

Best of luck with your project.

Completely agree!!!

Dear @josephsavage

Can you and your followers please stop wallet spamming everybody?

I'm sorry if our ways of communicating is upseting you. I will make sure not to bother you again in the future. I hope you understand, that sending memos is one of very few tools people on Steemit have to promote their content.

I've seen many authors who gaved up because of lack of engagement. So I sometimes wonder - what's worse for Steemit? Authors giving up or a bit more memo spam, that does actually work well for many.

I respect your opinion but I'm still having my own doubts.

Yours
Piotr

It is only effective because so few people are willing to do it.

I've read your post as someone resteemed and I have found it in my feed. I would not read it if I realized quick enough it's from the person who has sent me a spam transaction.

As I have found the project worthy, thus I have delegated my steem to you. However, I hope you will find better ways to find attention than these wallet transactions.

Dear @hotbit

Thank you for your delegation. Very kind of you.

I would not read it if I realized quick enough it's from the person who has sent me a spam transaction.

I just double checked and I didn't see any spam transactions from me in your wallet.

However, I hope you will find better ways to find attention than these wallet transactions.

I wish to find better ways. Perhaps one day Steemit will introduce promised "communities".

I'm indeed using memos as a way of communicating with others on Steemit (unfortunately, it's currently the only efficient tool on this platform allowing to get some exposure and it's dominated by bots and hardly used by humans).

Reality is that I personally know several quality content creators, who would already give up on Steemit (some of them already did and I convinced them to come back) because of lack of engagement. We started using memos to notify our followers about new publications and it simply work.

So I came to the point where I had to ask myself a question: what is worse. People giving up one after another and quitting Steemit, or people still "surviving" and using memos to promote themself.

I already know my personal answer.

ps.
If you do not wish to ever receive any memos from me then I surely won't bother you with them in the future.

Yours
Piotr

Another great idea and a wonderful initiative from Crypto.Piotr. I'll gladly delegate my PALcoins to this project ... if only we can find out how to stake them to you.

Cheers, and keep up the phenomenal work.

Thanks friend @majes.tytyty

Always so consistent with everyone on our team.

Our project hope is growing little by little, always from the hand of our friend @crypto.piotr and you are also part of that unconditional support.

Thanks forever.

Dear @majes.tytyty

Another great idea and a wonderful initiative

Thank you :) I surely love to be appreciated and praised from time to time hehe :)

if only we can find out how to stake them to you.

Please go to your palnet.io wallet and STAKE your tokens:

You will have to click "advanced" button and then type in the name of the user you would like to support with your delegation.

It's just that simple :)

Yours,
Piotr

Piotr, I already did that. That's why my balance is down from the original 1,933 coins.

In other words, I STAKED you 10 coins. They left my wallet, but there's no other indication of the transfer / stake. The transaction does not show up in my wallet history as a transfer, nor does it show up in your wallet balance or in your wallet history as being received.

This is one of the reasons that I always do a test send, whenever I'm sending any major amounts of BTC or Steem.

Oh @majes.tytyty, that's what you meant.

I thought that you've transfered 10 PAL and it simply dissapeared.

Perhaps you could stake another 10 PAL to me and check out right away http://palnet.io/@crypto.piotr/transfers if I got your stake. Im 100% that I will receive it.

The problem is, that PALnet doesn't have any tools supporting it's platform (the way Steemit does: steemd, steemworld etc) so as far as I know the only way to manage staking is by steem-engine.com (but even this is very poor and I cannot even see who delegated PAL to me).

he transaction does not show up in my wallet history as a transfer

Indeed. If it would be transfer then you would see some transaction in your wallet history. Staking doesn't leave any traces in wallet.

Cheers
Piotr

What a great project well done

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Dear @mrme1984

Thank you for your kind words. I also think that this is great initiative :)

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Did you by any chance claim your PAL tokens? I would appreciate if you could consider delegating/staking them to my PALnet.io account. Aidrop will finish in 2 days.

Hope I can count on your support :)
Piotr

One more time you surprise me my dear friend @crypto.piotr

Always finding out new ways to support others... That’s amazing my friend. Well done...

I did my small support and have delegated my PAL coins to you..

I hope that your incredible project comes to the next step and continue growing as well..

I wish you the best of luck to you and your team...!!!

Congratulations..!!!

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Hi @edgarare1

Thanks friend. Your support is very helpful for our hope project.

A big greeting from Venezuela.

Thanks for your support @edgarare1 👍