There is always, it seems, use case talk about tokens and crypto. It has taken a little bit but there are more and more sites trying to emulate Hive, but they seem to be centralized in one manner or another.
I was sort of enjoying the drop in Hive. I see the price of Hive as being close to the low point for the year. Just speculation on my part, however with the advent of HF26 coming, and changes to the resource credit usage, I think we have a potential to really help people stay with Hive instead of getting frustrated at the inability to do anything because they ran out of resource credits.
The resource credit delegation and possible other uses is going to become very important. I do not have a lot of resource credits, but the only time they drop into a few days recovery is when I buy account tokens. So I have a lot of unused RC's, which may or may not be able to earn me more Hive in the future.
More people will be able to join in on the fun.
Decentralization of a community like this is harder than many seem to think - especially when there is development and funds to consider.
Is there a soft date yet?
For sure. It has a lot of potential for innovative design too.
Next core developer meeting is set for Next Monday. I never catch it live, but I do watch it when Howo gets it posted. We may know more date wise after that meeting.