Hive as a blogging platform hasn't moved forward too much but hive as an eco-system has evolved massively.
14k users isn't the real story as splinterlands has over 100k users per day that aren't counted in those stats.
We now have nft's liquidity, dapps, games, ect...
Partnerships with multiple exchanges, dex's, marketsquare, telos and other chains.
It might seem like things are standing still but they are slowly spreading into everywhere. The next step that we can see are large groups joining together. Splinterlands is bringing in thousands of players from guilds in one go.
Scorum is bridging to hive, so is somee for blogging.
The pump is strange but there are 6 airdrops for hive holders before January. People don't want to sell as much as before and there is no steemit inc dumping value weekly.
I know that i'm all in with hive but i can see where all of this is going and i like it. Now we just need more people shilling and more devs building to pick up the pace.
Our strongest point is the community and if we hit a bear market we will keep growing while others fall away.
Great post though. I really enjoyed the read, i take your point from it and it's good to see you back again.
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Hey Mate.
Good comment. Everything you say is true. There are lots of positive developments on Hive and within its ecosystem. I question, though, whether they'll be enough. When Coinbase announced it would be launching an NFT marketplace at the end of 2021, 2.5 million people signed-up on their waiting list within a matter of days. Consider the magnitude of difference in the scales we're talking about when compared to Hive.
Something that comes to mind is a quote by Wayne Gretsky (the "Great Gretsky"). Asked what made him different than other hockey players (and hence, "Great"), he didn't mention technical skills such as skating or shooting or passing. His response:
Every player against which Gretsky competed was, in his own right, an incredible hockey player. Hence, it was not superior technical skill that set him apart ... but rather a superior strategy for implementing those skills.
As I've mentioned elsewhere in these comments, I predict that 2022 will be The Year of the Great Reckoning. Like what happened during the dot.com bust, Actual Performance will replace Potential Prospects as the metric by which all will be measured. During the dot.com bust, it happened overnight. In the blink of an eye, Aspirational Happy Talk became verboten, replaced by hard-nosed demands to "show me the money."
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