In collaboration with The Hashgraph Association, Deloitte has introduced their

Environmental & Social Impact (ESI) Platform - providing unparalleled levels of assurance in environmental impact measurement using Hedera for corporations’ to drive net zero goals.

Learn more about the ESI ⚙️ https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/risk/solutions/environmental-and-social-impact-platform.html

Further reading 📰 https://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=133027

Wow.. hedera is named on the website of Deloitte. That’s one of the first time that the name is finally written..

You don't find this on even GC members. This also needs to be ironed out with marketing. GC members need to promote each other's use cases also

I completely agree.. it’s always like it’s “the name that can’t be mentioned “.. be proud of what you do and shout it from the roofs. It’s only positive news for these companies

Unfortunately there is no announcement on X 😔. DELOITTE has over 500k follower.

This is what I mean. If half the GC members mention this on X it would be shown to so many people. Why can't marketing team work his into their agreements?

This is a utility coin. No need for hype 😂

I agree 100%. GC members do not publicly support the network and it would be a relatively free/easy thing for them to do. Even something as simple as an X post "we'd like to congratulate Hedera on completing 50 billion transactions". Nothing crazy, nothing "legal", nothing giving away anything under an NDA, just some very simple support and they can't even do that. How about "congrats to the Hedera team for .....". Or "we choose Hedera because...(speed, security, transactions etc). But seriously not a single mention 🙄 by any GC members or any public support? 🤔 I suppose if the simple things are too much to ask, they sure as hell aren't going to be publically vocal about their use cases and purchase HBAR.

It shows that this is a deliberate approach from Hedera and it needs to change.

No it doesn't. Hedera are building, head down, for enterprises. That is their focus and they will deliver. Why would they start with silly press releases?

It would be akin to businesses congratulating Microsoft Excel for their 40 years of helping businesses build better. Hedera is, as Leemon has said many times, the plumbing.

We're referencing the GC specifically here. So you have 32 corporations that are supposed to be governing a network but not publicly supporting and you don't find that odd? 🤔 It's completely ok to you if not even a single gc member publicly supports Hedera, doesn't buy any HBARs, or announce use cases?

They are governing it and provided the required decentralisation. Why should they shill it?

I think we will see big results long before 10 years, but yes, in 10 years, it will be a monster. Meanwhile, I think they are happy to let usecases do the talking. Once the ones we know about go live and I’m sure there are plenty more big ones in the pipeline, there will be no stopping the momentum. I’d rather see tangible results than a pump from Google saying “Good job!!”

Etherium will always be number one but, yes, hopefully hedera will be where it needs to be too

Has nothing to do with "shilling". They supposedly signed up with use cases, where are they? "Enterprise takes time" is getting to be a tired excuse. Hedera is 6 years old, many gc members on going on their 2nd term, and what does the network have to show for it? And yes, they should be worried about TPS. Hedera is a business, not a charity. It takes 10,000 TPS for the network to "breakeven". So technically the network is operating at a loss so getting to 10,000 TPS SHOULD absolutely be a goal of the GC.

They can't just pull usecases out of a hat on some brand new, virtually unproven tech

There is no "pull(ing) use cases out of a hat". We were told that GC members were coming to the GC with use-cases already. Additionally, if they didn't have any, they shouldn't be on the GC. Why would you govern a network you're not using?

That's not true. New Governing Council members have to have a comitment to build. They don't just show up at the door with a ready to go usecase. These things take years to build and test properly

You can defend the GC all you want but MOST investors have been patient. Most investors think that ZERO public support for the network is unacceptable. Most investors think that not a single GC member out of 32 not having a paid use- case is unacceptable. Most investors think having ONLY 1,700 (almost all subsidized) after 6 years in unacceptable, especially when the health of network requirement is 10,000 TPS. Most investors are disappointed in the lack of retail support. Most investors are disappointed that GC is not filled. Most investors are disappointed that community nodes have been pushed back again. I'm simply a reflection of the sentiment of what Most Hedera/HBAR investors are thinking & feeling. You can think what you want but you're not good as reading the room...

I've been in hbar since January 2021. I had a ten year time scale then and that hasn't really changed.

Also, regarding retail, hedera have been 100% consistent in stating they are an enterprise focused network. If retail chooses to ignore that then that's up to them. Or they can get building, themselves

Oh, and I can read the room. But why should I turn this into an echo chamber. Everything I'm saying is, to all intents and purposes, trying to temper expectations with a dose of realism. I can't understand people being so entrenched in their criticism, to the point where they don't just reconsider their investment. It is was it is and its clear to all

@TheHbarBull do you know if there is a reason for it?

There is good example on programming languages. BASIC like Microsoft QBASIC or early Visual Basic were easy to learn with easy IDE. It ruled in the 80s and 90s as everyone could learn. Microsoft then focused on enterprises only and professional developers and lost retail users what BASIC was all about, that needed to create small app. You could not use simple print " hello "anymore. Then Python become popula,r although is slow is taking lots of good things from BASIC or C and easy to use IDE as notepad and it is taking over in non programmer world. Microsoft cannot make money anymore on VB, there is free Visual Studio that not a lot are using due to complexity. Easy to get outcompeted if you ignore average potential users that Python ingested into their ecosystem.

I agree, it's a bit of an echo chamber and expectations need to be tempered however that should be done officially. These issues should be addressed by the GC or Charles Adkins or Shayne Higdon or someone in an official capacity and until they are, they will persist.

It was always also retail focused, watch early Dr Baird videos- he envisioned shared worlds, where user interacts forming small and larger communities.

ask them why the skip GC meetings

and I am since beginning even watch Hedera launch live stream back in March 2018 and remember that times well. It was pitched to retail including all the work ambassadors did including Dilly

& because these issues persist and are never addressed, I have reconsidered my investment. I have been purchasing HBAR every week since 21' in order to DCA average. About 6 weeks ago I stopped my weekly DCA'ing. In time, I will start to sell off a few hundred thousand HBAR and get into other projects if I don't see some changes made or progress. I know my tiny sale doesn't amount to anything but I know a lot of the community is reconsidering their HBAR investment.

Actually, that is very true. I remember those. The way I see it, most 'etherium killers' that went the retail path are now zombie projects. Proof of stake, layer 2 projects, a huge market cap, and upgrades saw to that. The only projects that will survive are the ones that are carving a different path. Cardano has its problems but it has a clear vision of the problems it is tackling, polkadot has its own use, etc. Chains like solana will fade. I personally trust hedera know what they're doing with their own approach

not Shayne for sure- to late for him

What do you call a chain whose TPS is almost solely made up of subsidized tokens? Take away ATMA and Hedera is about 1 TPS. That's pretty close to a ghost chain. Again, why the GC needs to start to actual utilize the network they're governing.

Ok. I call it a zombie chain. Its failing badly based on your expectations. Perhaps sell up?

Atma went away recently and it held around 250-350 tps. If you’re so fearful about their progress and their prospects, why not sell and quit worrying so much? You’ll feel better.

It is not about that, more how to help change the tide for adoption for Hedera to prosper, as risky to build business directed to small niche of people. Look Microsoft operating system success, it was not sold to corporations only, they had both products lines for home users and enterprises. You cannot just rely on single life line in business.

It is possible to both hold an investment and be critical of the direction of it. Some of us just don't blindly throw our money into something and not care about the progress. It's an investment for me, not a religion. You can follow the omnipotent Hedera God and I'll take a more critical measured approach.