I'm actually giving praise for outfit but make a point that his vibe didn't match the eccentricity of it.
The whole presentation fell way short of the good old days of STEEMFEST.
And the whole Blockchain is so much in a state of "hey there's a few folks who still believe our bullshit... so we're doing good... (Aka: we're still extracting money from fools)"
It's far from the promise of old where by now HBD would be the currency of many real world initiatives and the libertarian flag would be flying high on HIVE.
It was quite cringy watching starkerz essentially say... "Yeah 3Speak is a failed project but believe our bullshit and pretend that SPK NETWORK will be a success."
In a nutshell that shows the state of Hive. Those in favorable position can continue to "BUILD" and get proposal money for it. Yet not one project other than SPLINTERLANDS can really claim itself a success story on HIVE.
I don't see that changing with HF26 because the chance of mass adoption of users is an absolute MUST in order for any project to ever take off.
However those in high places want to KILL "reward for bloggers" so then who the hell would stay loyal to a Hive that doesn't really have a web3 easy to follow/easy to market 'fair rewards for all' foundation.
BUILDERS aren't good people attractors. Good people attractors don't see anything been built worth pushing to masses.