Hive development and marketing is very down to earth. Not many moonboys and not much overhype. Despite the existence of bots it seems like Hive numbers are pretty much organic.
The low liquidity caused some spikes in the price in the past, but seems like not many are interested in pumping and dumping a coin from a Blockchain like ours
I can only imagine it is due to the reputation based system we have, punpers and dumpers pretty quickly get ostracized and it becomes transparent the people that just want to make a quick buck
Seems like due to the nature of our Blockchain, based on debate, reputation and pretty much a democracy, attemps to overhyper and pump are short lived
So yeah, our numbers seem organic, rational and "correct" compared to blockchains and coins that literally need memes and marketing to survive
The main use case, in the end, is blogging