Many naysayers will say otherwise, but I for one happen to believe that decentralization and privacy will both come to the forefront over the next few decades.

More and more people are becoming populist politically over the last 10 years and I think that trend is just beginning and not near the end. Will centralized entities fight the trend? Yes. Will they win? I don't think so. Just as technology is replacing workers on the employment lines, it will replace banks, governemnts and corporations to some extent.

This will not come easily, but when it does people are gonna prefer decentralization.

Hive is not a household word right now and may never be, but I bet the number of people using it is higher in 5 years vs. now. Hive really only needs 3-5 relatively popular dApps that solve problems people have or caters to their desires to build Hive into a stable entity. We are almost there :-)

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