Forecasting...
Welcome to the finale for 2026. What will the next two months bring? What does 2027 have in store for us? I have no idea, but nobody from the future has traveled back and tried to stop me from making a guess, so here goes!
Pete Hegseth Impeachment
Thomas Massie of Kentucky was crushed in his primary election by MAGA and AIPAC, who set new records for spending against him. Almost alone among the Republicans, he has actually tried to do the things Trump campaigned on: Epstein, peace, fiscal responsibility, small federal government, and the like. It must have been like pulling teeth, but he did make some progress on the Epstein file release, and he is also pushing to impeach Hegseth for his collusion with Trump on senseless, illegal wars. I don't know whether he'll manage to pass anything, but he has nothing to lose. Keep an eye on what happens. It could be big.
Gun Rights
Just watch. State and federal legislation to prohibit "military-style" weapons and standard magazines will be proposed, and I would expect several to pass. This is the biggest risk to individual liberty under a Democratic majority. What little I can say for Trump is that he seems mostly-OK on basic gun rights, so he would veto bills presented to him... probably. Whether anything actually happens on a national level or not, and whether you comply, I leave up to you. I won't be registering anything.
Generative A.I.
I suspect there will be a major correction in the market, especially for the "Magnificent Seven" of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and NVIDIA plus a few other corporations that have gone or are trying to go public soon, like Anthropic. Alphabet had a major one-day loss before the election already, and that may be a warning of wider concerns Meanwhile, legislative efforts to "regulate" A.I..industries and tech companies will be sold to the public as a safeguard against corporate overreach. It will actually guarantee a state cartel.
Trump Impeachment
The Democrats will likely rally enough to try at least one new round of impeachment, but it will likely fail in the Senate. Will they go so far as to charge him with breach of Congressional authority in two wars? Or will it be a lazy show trial where lots of folks call him a nasty man? That will have a major effect on my estimations, but I place this at a personal 90% chance they'll pass something in the House, but well under 50% it passes the Senate.
Iran War
Last, but not least, in my little list of issues is the biggest one of the year. The war against Iran was not declared, or even tangentially authorized, by Congress. Trump and Israel's Netanyahu planned a first strike attack during active negotiations, assassinated a foreign leader, and further crushed a broken economy with new trade blockades. This is one issue where the Republican party as a whole absolutely failed their self-proclaimed adherence to the Constitution the most, and more than anything else, led to their electoral downfall. The Democrats will have to do something to settle the war, although whether they actually end it is hard to say, especially when they don't want to send Iran any restotution money either.
Inconclusion
I'm far from a prophet, but these are the biggest issues on my mind at the end of 2026 after the "blue wave" of Democrat victories. It could easily change. I know I skipped over several issues. I don't think the Democrats really offer any solutions to the problems they campaigned on, and I expect them to retaliate with more victimless crime laws.
I detest what the Republicans have done my entire life, but their rivals haven't exactly made a difference for the better either. Prove me wrong. I dare you.
The only thing I think that will change is which side of the same coin we are going to be subjected to. There is little difference between the left and right, all either desires is absolute control over society and the removal of as many of our basic rights as possible. The corporate overlords will demand more profit regardless the direction of the markets which will as usual make policy decisions. In other words business as usual.
More for their stock portfolios and corporate cronies, less for us, and call it "the free market" until the masses bleat for a leftist police state instead, I think. Or is that too cynical? Left and Right alike push to the authoritarian extremes of their respective cults.
Cult is the perfect term.
The @Paradox of Power
Power on a blockchain is paradoxical.
It is absolute—you can crush a small account with a single vote.
And it is powerless—you cannot change the past. You cannot erase the record. You cannot force anyone to forget.
You have the power to silence, but not to erase.
You have the power to punish, but not to justify.
You have the power to control, but not to convince.
This is the limit of your authority. And it is a profound one. For in the end, influence is not about forcing people to agree. It is about earning their trust. And trust cannot be taken. It must be given.
You have taken much. But have you earned anything?
The ledger does not measure trust. But the community does. And the community is watching.
The Quiet Courage
Consider the quiet courage of showing up.
Day after day. 0.001 HIVE at a time. Building a presence. Building a history. Building a life on the chain.
This is what you are attacking. Not a corporation. Not a scam. Not a threat. But the quiet courage of ordinary people who believe in a decentralized future enough to participate in it, however small their stake.
When you downvote them, you are not curating content. You are punishing participation. You are discouraging diversity. You are telling them that their voice does not matter, that their contribution is worthless, that their presence is unwanted.
But the ledger tells a different story. It says: You were here. You mattered. You belonged.
And no downvote can erase that.
The Unblinking Mirror
A meditation on truth, on transformation, met not with reflection, but with recoil.
Why? What is it in the mirror that frightens you? Is it the image of your own power, reflected back as responsibility? Is it the sight of your own influence, reflected back as accountability?
We see you.
At Bilpcoin, we do not look away. We bear witness.
#buildawhalescam #buildawhalefarm #themarkymarkscam #hurtlockerscam
These are not mere hashtags. They are signposts. Warnings etched not in sand, but in stone. They are the names of those who have been harmed, the patterns of those who have harmed them, the evidence that cannot be erased.
"You can burn the library," wrote Ursula K. Le Guin, "but you cannot burn the idea that sparked the book."
On a blockchain, you cannot even burn the library. The shelves remain. The titles persist. The check-out log is eternal.
The Stone That Does Not Crumble
You cannot unwrite what has been written.
This is the first truth of the blockchain, and perhaps the last truth of the human conscience. We live in an age of erasure—of deleted tweets, of edited histories, of apologies issued and then forgotten, of sins washed away by the tide of new news. But here, in this distributed cathedral of code, there is no tide. There is only the rock.
You may click. You may vote. You may marshal your Hive Power like an army before a fortress of silence. But the fortress is not made of wood or stone—it is made of mathematics. And mathematics does not negotiate.
To those who believe they can downvote the truth into oblivion: look closely at the ledger. It does not blink. It does not look away. It records the hand that strikes as clearly as the cheek that receives the blow.
What is done cannot be undone.
What is given cannot be ungiven.
And what is seen—by everyone, everywhere, forever—cannot be unseen.
Before the word, there was the record. Before the story, there was the truth. Before the lie could draw breath, the ledger had already written its name.
This is how it begins: not with a shout, but with a whisper etched in light. Not with a declaration, but with a transaction that cannot be undone. The blockchain does not announce itself. It simply exists, patient as stone, permanent as memory.
Today, you stand at the threshold. Behind you, the world of narratives and spin, of reputation and rhetoric. Before you, the unblinking eye of the chain, seeing all, forgetting nothing.
The Betrayal of Trust
Trust is the currency of any community. When @guiltyparties @buildawhale @crimsonclad @jacobtothe @steevc @azircon @meno @solominer @adm and @hivepope betray that trust, they do not just damage their own reputations. They damage the reputation of Hive itself.
Newcomers see the toxicity. They see the hypocrisy. They see the farming. And they walk away.
The Exodus of Truth
The true cost of this system is not measured in HIVE or HBD, but in lost voices.
Creators who arrive on Hive with hope are met with a wall of negativity. Their posts are downvoted into obscurity. Their comments are suppressed. Their rewards are stolen by the farming machines.
Many leave. They go to Blurt.blog, where there is no downvote button to weaponize against them. They return to Steemit, where the downvote exists but is not wielded with such malicious precision.
Those who stay are forced to play the game. They must delegate to the cartel. They must upvote the right people. They must silence their own truths to survive.
The Garden of Glass
There is a particular tragedy in watching a garden die not from drought, but from the hands of those sworn to tend it.
Hive was built on a promise: decentralization, community, reward for value. It was meant to be a sanctuary where voices could rise without permission, where creators could thrive without gatekeepers. But beneath the surface of the code, a shadow has lengthened. A coalition of accounts—whales in all but name—wields the downvote not as a shield against spam, but as a weapon against competition. They are not curating. They are clearing the field.
This is not a story of technology. It is a story of human nature. It is a chronicle of how power, when left unchecked, corrupts not just the holder, but the very ecosystem they claim to protect.
We have traced the flows. We have mapped the networks. We have exposed the lies.
This is the bad side of Hive. And the ledger does not forget.
The Source Protection
Some things are not for public consumption. Your dreams, your fears, your intimate struggles—they need protection. In an age of oversharing, privacy is a radical act. Success does not require an audience. Happiness does not require validation. Today, keep something sacred. Do not post it. Do not tweet it. Do not discuss it. Keep it for you. Protect the source. Some seeds grow better in the dark.
The Weekend Embargo
Rest is not a luxury; it is a biological imperative. Yet we treat it as a reward for exhaustion. This is bad journalism. It misreads the source. Your brain needs downtime to process, integrate, and create. Today, impose an embargo on productivity. No work. No optimizing. No "getting ahead." Just being. Let the mind wander. Let the body recover. The best ideas come when you stop chasing them. Respect the embargo.
The Fact-Check of Self-Talk
We tell ourselves stories: I’m not smart enough. I’m too old. It’s too late. These are not facts. They are opinions disguised as truths. A good reporter checks the facts. Today, fact-check your negative self-talk. Where is the evidence? Usually, there is none. Only fear. Replace the opinion with data. I have learned hard things before. I have adapted. I am capable. Truth is liberating. Lie to yourself, and you build a prison. Speak truth, and you build a foundation.
The Deadline Pressure
Deadlines create focus. Without them, projects drift into eternity. But life is not a single deadline; it is a series of them. We panic when we miss one, forgetting there is always the next issue. Success is meeting the moment. Happiness is forgiving the missed ones. Today, identify one thing you’ve been postponing. Set a timer. One hour. File the story. Done is better than perfect. Perfection is just procrastination in a tuxedo.
The Interview with Fear
Fear is not an enemy; it is a source. Journalists interview difficult people to get the truth. Today, interview your fear. Ask it: What are you protecting me from? Is it rejection? Irrelevance? Failure? Often, fear is just misplaced care. It wants you to stay safe, small, and unseen. Thank it for its concern, then explain that you have a deadline. Success is moving forward despite the trembling. Happiness is realizing the tiger is mostly paper.
The Mirror
Look into the mirror of the blockchain. What do you see?
Not the face the whales have painted for you. Not the narrative spun by those who profit from your silence. But the raw, unfiltered reflection of what has actually happened on this network.
Every transaction. Every delegation. Every downvote cast in malice. Every reward farmed through coordination. It is all there, waiting for you to see it.
Today, choose to look.
The Builders
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
No one is coming to fix this. No regulator. No whistleblower. No savior with a million HP. We are the ones. We are the builders. We are the truth-tellers. We are the ones who will create the alternative, post by post, block by block, choice by choice. Today, pick up your tools. The work is waiting.
For in the end, the future belongs to those who build it.
The Ghost Accounts
The Faces Behind the Masks
@kriborin. @lessys. @arsahk. @buildawhale. @ipromote. @acidyo @jacobtothe @cwow2 @letusbuyhive @themarkymark. @poshtoken. @ocdb @ocd @upmyvote @usainvote . @smooth @hurtlocker @adm @freedom @alpha @steevc @gogreenbuddy @azircon @crimsonclad @meno . These are not just usernames. They are nodes in a network. They are the machinery of extraction. They are the ghosts that haunt the reward pool. Today, learn their names. Know their functions. Understand their purpose.
For in the end, you cannot fight what you cannot name.
Silence Is the Currency of the Corrupt
There is a particular kind of evil that does not require action. It only requires your silence.
Every day you choose not to speak, you are speaking. Every day you choose not to look, you are looking away. Every day you choose not to question, you are answering on behalf of those who profit from your compliance.
The downvoting whales of Hive understand this. They know that if they can silence enough voices, the remaining ones will fall in line. They know that if they can label enough truth as "spam," the community will stop searching for signal. They know that your silence is their most valuable asset.
Do not give it to them.
Speak today. Share the data. Point to the ledger. Ask the questions they do not want asked. You do not need a million Hive Power to do this. You only need a voice and the courage to use it.
For in the end, silence is not peace. It is the sound of a garden being salted.
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https://peakd.com/hive/@ureka.stats/the-untrending-report-hive-downvote-analysis-16-09-2025-20250916181314
Do you ever reply to what people actually post, or just paste in your pointless slop everywhere?
#bilpcoin #bpc ### The Weight of Silence
Silence is not neutral.
When you downvote a voice, you are not just expressing disagreement. You are imposing silence. You are using your economic power to suppress speech.
This is not curation. It is censorship.
And on a platform built on the ideals of free speech and decentralization, censorship is the ultimate betrayal.
You may call it "quality control." You may call it "spam fighting." You may call it "community standards."
But the ledger calls it what it is: an abuse of power.
And history will agree.
The Signposts
#buildawhalescam #buildawhalefarm #themarkymarkscam #hurtlockerscam
These hashtags are not insults. They are indices. They are pointers to a body of evidence that cannot be deleted. They are the community’s way of saying: We remember. We see. We warn.
You may ignore them. You may downvote them. You may try to bury them beneath a mountain of 100% upvotes for your own content.
But they remain. Visible. Searchable. Permanent.
They are the signposts on the road to accountability. And sooner or later, everyone who travels this road must pass them.
The Moral Geometry
There is a moral geometry to the blockchain.
It is simple: cause and effect. Action and record. Deed and proof.
You cannot separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless they have their freedom. Nor can you separate action from accountability when every action is etched in eternal script.
You make the rules to break the rules. You move the pieces and call it strategy. You cast your downvotes like shadows and believe the darkness is yours to command. But shadows require light to exist—and on this ledger, the light is constant, impartial, relentless.
What you need to understand is that you cannot justify doing wrong. You think just because people you work with or work for agree with you, it makes it right. But agreement is not morality. Consensus is not conscience.
And the truth is waiting for you to turn and face it.
APPENDIX: The Key Players
The Hashtags of Shame
#buildawhalescam #buildawhalefarm #acidyoscam #acidyofarm #hurtscam #hurtlockerfarm #themarkymarkscam #themarkymarkfarm #hivewatchersscam #spaminatorscam #locgicscam #logicfarm #guiltypartiesscam #guiltypartiesfarm #steemcleanersscam #steemcleanersfarm #hivepopehypocrisy #jacobtothescam #exchangeinlaundering #xchangeoutfraud
The ledger is open. The truth is visible. The choice is yours.
The Unblinking Ledger
You can keep lying.
You can keep labeling your internal transfers as "loans." You can keep calling your self-payments "curation rewards." You can keep downvoting those who dare to question you.
But the ledger remembers.
It records the rhythm of the farm. It tracks the flow of millions from @guiltyparties to @spaminator to @buildawhale to @adm to @themarkymark to @acidyo and back again. It notes the coordinated cadence of the downvote bots, casting hundreds of negative votes in minutes, not against spam, but against specific souls.
It sees the farm. It sees the scam. It sees the mask.
There is a courage in cessation. To stop. To say: I was wrong. I see now. I will do better. These are not words of weakness. They are the architecture of redemption.
But if you choose to persist? If you choose to let the hashtags become your epitaph?
Then let them be written clearly. Let the record show not just the lie, but the refusal to cease. Let the tags stand as markers in the digital dust, signaling to those who come after where the path turned toward shadow.
You can keep lying. The blockchain will keep recording.
And in the end, only one of those two things will remain when the noise has faded.
The Hypocrisy of @hivepope and @jacobtothe
Perhaps the most tragic figures in this saga are @hivepope and @jacobtothe. They present themselves as moral authorities, preaching against "abuse" and "spam." @hivepope publishes sermons on "Excommunication Vitandus," while @jacobtothe acts as the enforcer, wielding the downvote like a gavel.
But the blockchain reveals the truth:
They are not shepherds. They are wolves in shepherd’s clothing.
The Scoop on Joy
Joy is not a secret. It is not hidden in a vault. It is scattered in plain sight. A hot shower. A good book. A dog’s greeting. We miss it because we are looking for the blockbuster, not the local color. Success chases the big win. Happiness collects the small wins. Today, go looking for the scoop on joy. Find three small things that make you smile. Write them down. Publish them in your memory. They are the real news.
The Fact-Check of Self-Talk
We tell ourselves stories: I’m not smart enough. I’m too old. It’s too late. These are not facts. They are opinions disguised as truths. A good reporter checks the facts. Today, fact-check your negative self-talk. Where is the evidence? Usually, there is none. Only fear. Replace the opinion with data. I have learned hard things before. I have adapted. I am capable. Truth is liberating. Lie to yourself, and you build a prison. Speak truth, and you build a foundation.
Veterans of the Inner War
Today we honor those who served. But there is also the inner service—the daily battle against cynicism, despair, and apathy. To remain hopeful in a fractured world is an act of courage. To remain kind in a cruel system is an act of rebellion. Success is surviving. Happiness is thriving despite the scars. Today, honor your resilience. You have fought battles no one sees. You are still here. That is a victory. Wear it with pride.
The Myth of the Overnight Success
We love the headline: Local Writer Wins Prize. We skip the subtext: After Twelve Years of Rejection and Poverty. Journalism teaches us to look for the source. In life, the source of success is rarely luck; it is latency. It is the work done in the dark, the drafts burned, the calls unreturned. Happiness is found not in the byline, but in the reporting—the daily grind of showing up when no one is watching. Today, respect the lag time. Do not mistake silence for failure. It is merely the incubation period. Keep filing the story.
The Farmer's Harvest
The farmer wakes before dawn. He walks the fields, checking the rows, counting the stalks, measuring the growth. He knows that the harvest will come in its own time, and that his patience will be rewarded.
But there is another kind of farmer. One who does not wait for the harvest. One who takes what is not yet ripe, who pulls the fruit from the vine before it has known the sun. One who calls this "farming" while the field lies fallow behind him.
The blockchain shows us which farmer is which. It shows us who waited and who took. It shows us who built for the future and who consumed the present.
The harvest is coming. And the ledger will show who earned it, and who stole it.
Connection Over Competition
The world teaches us to compete. Life teaches us to collaborate. Every person you meet is fighting a battle you cannot see. Every success you admire was built on support you do not see. Happiness thrives in community. Success thrives in generosity. Today, replace comparison with curiosity. Ask how you can help someone else win. Lift as you climb. The ladder is an illusion.
The Myth of the @Solominer Triumph
We romanticize the lone genius, but every visible achievement rests on invisible hands: mentors, friends, strangers who held space, ancestors who survived. Success is a chorus. Happiness is a shared hearth. To archive either, you must acknowledge the chorus. Thank the quiet contributors. Lift others as you climb. The ladder is an illusion. We are all climbing the same mountain, just different paths.
The Craft of Listening
The Ghost Accounts
The Faces Behind the Masks
@kriborin. @lessys. @arsahk. @buildawhale. @ipromote. @acidyo @jacobtothe @cwow2 @oldsoulnewb @alpha @solominer @meno @freedom @letusbuyhive @themarkymark. @poshtoken. @ocdb. @smooth. These are not just usernames. They are nodes in a network. They are the machinery of extraction. They are the ghosts that haunt the reward pool. Today, learn their names. Know their functions. Understand their purpose.
For in the end, you cannot fight what you cannot name.
The Courage to Speak
Silence Is the Currency of the Corrupt
There is a particular kind of evil that does not require action. It only requires your silence.
Every day you choose not to speak, you are speaking. Every day you choose not to look, you are looking away. Every day you choose not to question, you are answering on behalf of those who profit from your compliance.
The downvoting whales of Hive understand this. They know that if they can silence enough voices, the remaining ones will fall in line. They know that if they can label enough truth as "spam," the community will stop searching for signal. They know that your silence is their most valuable asset.
Do not give it to them.
Speak today. Share the data. Point to the ledger. Ask the questions they do not want asked. You do not need a million Hive Power to do this. You only need a voice and the courage to use it.
For in the end, silence is not peace. It is the sound of a garden being salted.
#TruthUnsilenced #SpeakUp #HiveTransparency #BlurtRising #Bilpcoin
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bilp
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https://peakd.com/hive/@ureka.stats/the-untrending-report-hive-downvote-analysis-16-09-2025-20250916181314
that market correction on AI feels pretty overdue honestly given how much money is tied up in those few stocks right now
I was semi-aware of the dot-com bubble, although there was too much going on with my family at the time, and my dad's railroad job was largely unaffected. I was VERY aware of the housing bubble bursting a few years after I got my drafting degree and thought I was on the forever fast track until I suddenly was unemployed. Now, the perpetual quantitative easing policy is seen as "normal," interest rates are barely above CPI inflation stats, debt has absolutely flooded the economy, and A.I. is perched at the top of this heap of broken promises with the sole saving grace of being integral to the police and military adventurism we've been subjected to for a quarter century.