Your "Most Valuable" Investment in Hive

We are counting away days from this awful bear market that kind of took us by surprise. For some of us, this particular time in the current cycle represents a tremendous opportunity to stack more sats, or whatever, while for others it's more like a cold that you can't wait to get rid of and all the runny nose and coughing that creates discomfort...

Positioning yourself on the winning side, especially during times like these for the next bull market is "a must" for a more relaxed future bear market. A while back, not too long, I refused to believe we will have another 2018-like bear market, but here we are right now, in the gutter, with absolutely no way of changing the situation.

HIVE is in "corrective mode" too. It has fallen something like 90% from its ATH already and who knows... it might fall lower... or not. The blockchain, however, is not affected by the token price, that's impossible, the only thing that's affected lately is some users' appetite for hiving. Bad time to pause doing that IMO...

Hive is one of the few truly decentralized blockchains, that status positioning it for a bright and unlimited future in the crypto industry. As seen right now, the L1 token goes up and down as the market evolves, but the chain runs undisturbed whether HIVE is $1 or $0.3. For us, both content creators and curators, $1 HIVE would be preferable to $0.3, but we can't change the course of the market.

Hive is over two years old now, it's a Steem fork that has managed to outperform its "mother chain" in every possible way you can think of. Hive is no longer just a "blogging platform", it is a blockchain for apps, a space where freedom of speech is real and palpable and to some of us a way of living. A quite "poor in nutrients" living, I have to say, but nevertheless, quite impactful.

We are all on a mission. I don't see anyone superior to anyone in here, although at some point some individuals' decisions and actions have had a huge impact on our experience with Hive. For this thing to run like a "proper digital society" we need all the spinning wheels to run properly.

There have to be witnesses, and there definitely need to be devs working on further improving the experience we have with using Hive, we need people to be active in putting out content and generating traffic, these individuals are incentivized to keep on going by curators and all sort of token swaps and staking is necessary too.

I joined Hive(former Steem) about five years ago and I literally didn't even know what this thing was all about at that time and what I was gonna do with it, but it all makes sense now. I have literally blogged for nothing for about three years after I joined the platform, but at some point, the curation I got on my content started to make sense.

It takes time to build anything worth being proud of. If you start from scratch on Hive, you won't become a whale in just a few months, unless you buy yourself that stake to make you a whale, it takes time to "get monetized" as a content creator and build your reputation. Believe it or not, but most of the curation that's getting done by curators upon content creators is on "auto mode" and it is based on reputation rather than the content itself.

By reputation I do not refer solely to that score on your user account, that is subjective and meaningless at the same time. Reputation is built through trust, engagement, time, energy, passion, dedication, and friendship. So, what's the most valuable investment I put into Hive?

If I was to choose one thing I would say dedication, but when I zoom out, it is actually a mix of more than one variable. I may not be the best content creator that Hive has, but there's nothing stopping me from trying to become one. What do I get to lose?

Thanks for your attention, Adrian

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