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Indiaunited new contest and last contest results

Namaste everyone!
We have decided to host a weekly contest aimed at becoming a community with better engagement and having more presence on Hive. These contests will be organized each week to boost creativity among members of the community, help new and budding writers to show more creativity, help increase their personal growth on the platform and build better connections along with getting some good prizes in turn.
We encourage everyone to step forward and contribute to this. You can help by either taking parts in these contests, giving feedback and constructive criticism to the entries, supporting the entries or by sponsoring these contest. Drop your feedback/suggestions in the comments below or join our Discord Server and connect with us there.

Theme-:"A Letter to My Future Self"
If you could send a letter to yourself one year from today, what would you write?
Would you share your dreams, remind yourself of your goals, celebrate your progress, or offer encouragement during difficult times?
This contest is your opportunity to write a heartfelt letter to your future self. Be honest, hopeful, and authentic. Imagine opening this letter exactly one year from now.


There are some rules which everyone should keep in mind and read carefully as some of them can be changed in the subsequent contests.
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Publish your post in IndiaUnited Community.
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Use the #iucontest as your main tag, failing to do will invalidate your entry.
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No use of AI tools like ChatGPT for writing your posts. We want to hear your thoughts not AI's.
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Make sure to properly source you images and don't use copyrighted images.
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The post should have at least 350 original words per language (in case you decide to make a dual language post, be more specific don't make it lengthy).
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Add this contest's post link in your post so others can find us easily.
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Leave a link to your entry as a comment to this post.
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One entry post per account/user.
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Low reputation users will not be expected (not upvotes), So If you have Reputation less Than 55 Please don't participate thanks.
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Open to all not just the Indian citizens.
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Re-blog, upvote and share this contest post with others to spread the word. (Optional)

Deadline:
The deadline for submitting your entries will be five days (next Saturday )after publishing this post.


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Upvotes from @indiaunited (maybe you get a few votes from other curation account)for each valid entry.
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Total 1000 Ecency Points, Sponsored by @bhattg
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The Winner = 1st Runner UP = 500 Ecency Points, 2nd= 300 Ecency Points, and Runner UP = 200 Ecency Points and 5 hive (divide into winner according to the post).
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Curations from few other accounts but not guaranteed.
We are looking for more sponsors, if anyone wants to sponsor some rewards for the winners. Let us know in the comments or talk to us in IndiaUnited Discord Server.

Participants and entries:
@nainaztengra, @marsdave, @novamind, @emreal, @kilvnrex, @nsigo1, @intishar, @cindynancy, @pamilerin1, @goldenproject, @leemah1, @julie100, @offia66, @mega13, @sunshine29, @ivyann, @samolaj, @les90, @betheloji12, @merit.ahama, @twicejoy, @way-big, @newbreed, @zoe01, @emrysjobber, @jishan5, @betheloji12, @abhay2695, @sweetval, @rayhanhiveman, @dwixer, @way-big, @zusi78, @storicious, @mmam, @sarahbaby, @favour20045, @afrikens, @nahid43, @iyimoga, @peckypeace, @daverick, @ijebest, @dearemem, and @kingsleyy
| Position | Author | Post Link | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Place | @sunshine29 | Post Link | 3 Hive +500 @ecency Points |
| 2nd Place | @zoe01 | Post Link | 2 Hive +300 @ecency Points |
| 3rd Place | @intishar | Post Link | 1 Hive +200 @ecency Points |
Thank you so much for participating and making this contest a success. Good luck for this week.
Sponsers
Aha but cheers to our sponsor @nainaztengra mam (with 25 hive and 1000 @ecency points)

*Do you know that you can earn a passive income by delegating to @indiaunited and @india-leo accounts. We share more than 100 % of the curation rewards with the delegators in the form of LEO and IUC tokens. IUC token is soft pegged to 1 HIVE per 1 IUC. Our curation from @indiaunited and @india-leo account is 100% manual.

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STOPWow! I won 2nd place 😁 Thank you for the honour, I appreciate the support. Let's grow together. 🫶🏻
Congratulations to other contestants as well 🤗❤️
Congratulations to the winners!🎉
Happy Saturday, friends!
So thrilled for this win 🥇 dear @indiaunited @bhattg 🎉🥳🥂🪅.
Thank you so much and lots of blessings 😇🙏💕
Congratulations 🎉🥂🥇🎉🥳 to my fellow winners @zoe01 @intishar
Well done guys 💕😇
Happy weekend community and friends. Hope you have a restful weekend while we set for another round of contest
Cheers 🥂 guys 🥰💕
Congratulations dear 🎉👏
!PIZZA
!LADY
Congratulations to all the winners 🏆🏆
Thanks love @sunshine29
Congratulations to you as well 😁
Here's my entry:
https://ecency.com/@goldenproject/the-promise-i-keep-rewriting
Here's my entry:
https://ecency.com/@henryjnrr/open-this-a-year-from
My entry...
https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@kilvnrex/hey-rex-dza
Congratulations dear @zoe01 👏🏾, you deserve it.
My entry: https://ecency.com/@rayhanhiveman/the-letter-i-hope-you
Thanks my friend. Happy weekend beautiful 🥰💕
You are welcome beautiful 😍. Happy weekend.
You are welcome @zoe01 . Love ❤️
Hello 👋
Here is my entry for this week contest
https://ecency.com/@les90/dear-future-self
My entry: https://ecency.com/@intishar/a-letter-as-reminder
Here is my Entry post for the contest
https://ecency.com/@mmam/carrying-hope-into-tomorrow?referral=mmam
Here is my Entry
https://inleo.io/@dwixer/dear-future-me-your-present-self-wont-let-you-down-7g2?referral=dwixer
Here is my entry
https://ecency.com/@leemah1/a-letter-to-my-future-self-dear-future-me-xp
My entry for the IndiaUnited 🇮🇳 Weekly Contest
https://ecency.com/@hjrrodriguez/new-indiaunited-weekly-contest-caae1f84c5e9d
Namaste everyone.
Here is my entry.
https://ecency.com/@iyimoga/the-promise-a-letter-to
My entry
https://ecency.com/@newbreed/a-letter-to-my-future
This is my entry
https://ecency.com/@storicious/from-me-to-me-are
Wow, congratulations 👏🎉 to you sis, @sunshine29 for the win. It's exciting to win. A happy new week!!
Congratulations 👏🎉 to all the winners 🏆🎉, we move on again!
Here's by entry...
https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@marsdave/dear-future-me
Thank you sis. So thrilling to win 🏆. I appreciate your kind support beautiful 😍
Wishing you a week of abundance 🥰😇🌹
Hello everyone, here is my link,
https://ecency.com/@ijebest/writing-a-letter-to-my
Thank you my friend, and enjoy your wins 😂👍.
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https://peakd.com/hive-197685/@treasuree/a-letter-to-myself-in
This is my entry.
Congratulations
Here is my entry
Ecency Link
https://ecency.com/@timscreative/a-letter-to-my-future-self-keep-moving-indiaunited-contest--6zf
Inleo Link
https://inleo.io/@timscreative/a-letter-to-my-future-self-keep-moving-indiaunited-contest--6zf?referral=timscreative
Thank you 🫶🏻
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@jacobtothe The ledger doesn't lie, and neither do we. We've already exposed the interconnected web of your friends—the numbered wallets, the synchronized voting, the farming rings disguised as curation. Yet, instead of reflection, you offer only more silence and more downvotes.
Why does a "community" need so many ghost accounts to survive? Why do you refuse to admit that it is your friends and your own abusive behavior—not truth-telling—that drives people away? You can not hide the pattern, it only highlights the desperation.
We have to ask: Are you okay? Do you need some help with your mental health? Because no one in their right mind would choose to spend their life defending a house of cards built on lies, bullying, and botnets. There is still time to step back from the edge. Choose clarity over compulsion. Choose truth over the tribe.
#bilpcoin
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The Sanctuary of the Builder: A Manifesto for Free Creation
Prologue: The Right to Rise
There is a sacred covenant between the creator and the soil upon which they build. It is the promise that if you plant a seed with honest hands, the earth will not conspire to crush it before it breaks the surface. It is the assurance that the gardener exists to nurture the growth, not to trample the sprout because it does not yet resemble the tree.
On the blockchain, this covenant has been broken.
We have witnessed a tragedy where the very tools meant to protect the integrity of the network—the downvote, the curation trail—have been weaponized by leviathans of power. These "whales," entrusted with the stewardship of the ecosystem, have become its jailers. They do not prune the weeds; they scorch the earth. They do not guide the new voice; they silence it with the crushing weight of their accumulated capital.
It is time to leave the shadow.
It is time to build where you are free.
I. The Betrayal of the Guardian
The downvote was conceived as a shield—a delicate instrument to deflect spam, to repel malice, to preserve the sanctity of the commons. It was never intended to be a hammer.
Yet, look at what has come to pass. The whales, those who hold the greatest sway, have turned the shield into a weapon of mass suppression. They do not downvote to protect; they downvote to dominate. They do not drive away the bad actors; they drive away the people. They create an atmosphere of fear where the creator hesitates to speak, fearing that a single misstep, a single unpopular truth, will summon the wrath of the oligarchy.
When the guardian becomes the predator, the flock must flee.
To build in such a place is to build on a fault line. It is to invest your soul in a garden where the owner holds the shears not to shape the hedge, but to decapitate the flowers that grow too tall or bloom in the wrong color.
This is not protection. This is tyranny disguised as curation.
II. The Call to New Grounds
Where, then, shall the builder go?
You must seek the lands where the soil is rich with freedom, not poisoned by fear. You must migrate to the platforms where the mechanism of suppression has been removed, where the only metric of success is the genuine appreciation of your peers.
Go to Blurt.
Here, the downvote button does not exist. There is no tool to crush your voice. There is only the upvote, the comment, the share. Here, value is created by addition, not subtraction. The whale cannot sink your ship, for there are no torpedoes in these waters. You are free to build, free to fail, and free to succeed on the merit of your work alone.
Return to Steemit.
In this older ground, the downvote remains, but it has not been twisted into a tool of systematic oppression. The culture there remembers the original intent: correction, not destruction. It is a place where the community self-regulates through dialogue, not through the brute force of coordinated downvoting cascades.
Build where the wind lifts you, not where the gale seeks to tear you down.
III. The Architecture of Freedom
Imagine a platform designed not for the convenience of the powerful, but for the dignity of the creator.
This is not a dream. It is a choice.
Every time you choose to build on a platform that respects your agency, you cast a vote for the future of the internet. Every time you refuse to tolerate the abuse of power, you strengthen the foundation of a free society.
Do not let the whales convince you that their oppression is necessary. Do not let them tell you that their downvotes are for your own good. The gardener who kills the seedling does not love the garden; he loves only his own control over it.
Epilogue: The Unchained Creator
The blockchain was born from a desire for freedom. It was forged in the fire of resistance against centralized control. Let us not forget that origin.
If the current chains of Hive have become heavy with the weight of abusive downvotes, then break them. Forge new links. Build new shores.
Build where you are free.
Build where you will not be downvoted into silence.
Build where the whales are reminded that they are part of the ocean, not the masters of the tide.
The future belongs to those who dare to create without fear. Go forth, and build your cathedral in the sunlight.
— Bilpcoin: We expose the truth, so you can build upon it.
#FreeSpeech #BlurtBlog #Steemit #NoDownvote #CreatorRights #HiveExodus #Decentralization #BuildFree #AntiCensorship #Bilpcoin
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My entry
https://hive.blog/hive-197685/@nahid43/a-letter-to-my-future-self-bch
https://ecency.com/@way-big/a-letter-to-my-future
here's my entry👍
Here is a link to my entry.
https://ecency.com/@sarahbaby/a-reminder-to-my-future
Here's my entry;
https://ecency.com/@daverick/hey-future-self?referral=daverick
My entry: https://ecency.com/@zoe01/a-year-from-now-i
My entry
@Indiaunited Contest - Theme: Letter to my Future Self
My entry
https://ecency.com/@emrysjobber/a930e7946de6e
Hello, ladies and gentlemen,
Here is my entry,
https://ecency.com/@cagolistic/to-my-future-self-keep
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Please I am not getting tagged in the weekly contest shared posts @bhattg
you are not following the rules
lol
You're welcome 🤗
Very much welcome 🤗
Oh waoh! Fun and amazing @bhattg
Enjoy your evening 😇💕
Oh, really?, let me check now.
I thought I always did.
Let me check
@bhattg can you reconfirm this. I have always used it as my main tag.
I just screenshot my post for you to confirm.
Here is the attached screenshot.
It is my main tag and has always been my main tag.
Thank you and gud night
the tag is #iucontest not #iuc i guess
Okay, but it will interest you that I picked it from the same contest post @bhattg
Find attached screenshot.
My entry:
https://ecency.com/@sweetval/letter-to-my-2027-self