We definitely have come a long way!

I can't help but think that the occasionally negative undertones I sometimes see come from people who think of Hive as being a FIVE year old project, rather than a ONE year old project. If I understand the infrastructure correctly, the only thing that's five years old is some of the posts.

Building takes time! Of course, Hive does fall under the greater umbrella of the Cryptosphere and we can't entirely escape the broader short-term mindset with it's eternal "When Moon?" questing. As you've heard me say before, solid projects sometimes just aren't as "sexy" as a shiny White Paper and vaporware... sad, but also true...

I'm excited for the plans to stabilize HBD, and believe we DO need two tokens, one of them being a stablecoin... IF we are ever to come up with some version of peer-to-peer commerce here. Nobody wants to try to do commerce in an environment where a loaf of bread was $2 yesterday, $3.50 today, and will be $1.50 tomorrow.

Splinterlands was one of the very first projects I sincerely cheered for... because it offered a genuine bridge to the outside world; the only way (at the time) someone could (indirectly) buy into Steem Hive with their debit card... AND the fact that the game itself had the inherent potential to become an online equivalent of MTG, which still has 35 million active players... and like all "good things" has been going since 1993.

There's that long term thing, again!

I think our communities may well lead the way forward... following their own paths in the style of LeoFinance.

My "Sleeper" community is Natural Medicine which has a very dedicated and passionate core group... they just need a serious developer/technical person(s). They represent a huge (Non-technical) niche market that's already used to being "alternative" in approach so inherently an off-blockchain niche that's more open to a new approach.

Sorry about the "dissertation," but there IS a lot of good happening on Hive!

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