the perspective of a developer, entrepreneur & stakeholder. I'm of course also looking at things with the eyes of a content-creator or community member, but those are of a lower priority for me.
As a three year survivor of steem/hive this is always a sticking point for me. While we have some great developers on hive that have put in a huge amount of work over the years they have never seemed to realize the benefit and importance of the regular users. The people that turn up every day and keep hive active and a great place to launch apps and projects. They are the difference between hive and multiple other chains that you can build projects on.
Over the years we have lost thousands of users due to large stakeholders abusing and neglecting the overall community. (Not you, just in general.) It is impossible to build if war rages around the system as it only hurts and destroys as we have seen in the past. For hive to succeed we need everybody willing to grow the system even if it is not to your taste. Every user brings the possibility of bringing people with them. This could be the person that builds the next big thing. That brings their following, that brings hive to the forefront of decentralized systems. Every person that leaves hurts our efforts to grow. It is far better to have a smaller share of a successful project than a huge share of a dead one.
While getting large investors will temporarily pump the price we have also seen the downfall of people having too large a stake. Having base users earning is vital to decentralize and bring even more people in. They will distribute the token further, advertise what is being built here and provide an audience for projects getting started. That is why hive apps are the most successful. It is far better to have a million people spend $20 on hive than one person spend 20m.
With that said there could be a way to do it better that would suit all sides. But to do so both all sides need to realize that they all have a value and think about that when trying to build or make changes. Any changes to the reward pool would need to add the most value for the most amount of people. Not just one group.
I want different #Hive communities to be able to develop themselves completely independent, and neighborhoods in cities always have some contact area.
This and SMT's could be a possible solution backed by hive. We have been waiting on SMT's for two years and are still looking to see what will be offered on this front.
I do want to mention that it would be good for HIVE to be available on platforms such as binance & crypto.com for staking/lending.
This is a must for me as I have seen how good crypto.com is and have the card already. We should be trying to get listed on their exchange as a first step and it would give us a great narrative to show how you can earn hive and spend in real life. Staking would be great after that as it would allow for passive holding of hive. There does need to be a passive solution if we are to try and bring in larger investors that just want return on investment.
The future will be tokenized projects running on hive. Blogs, communities, apps, markets ect. You can build anything that you want and monetize it. Ownership of your online space. Tokenize the projects to give value back to your users.
That will not be worth anything unless we have the people here to use it. So many great projects have died due to lack of users and not having utility. Hive is one of the few with the users to make it worthwhile but we will lose them unless we build with everybody in mind.
Very sad. But so very true :(
I share your approach and view.