Well Said. @taskmaster4450 Has Spoken!

Perhaps your most poignant and relevant piece in a long time!

In some ways, the Cryptosphere "lost its way" somewhere. The big mistake was adopting a mindset that TOKENS were the actual product offered, rather than the idea underlying the token, with the token simply being the fuel for the product.

And so, we ended up in this slightly surreal version of "Wall Street Greed." Except it's somewhat decentralized Wall Street Greed.

As a parallel, although an inadequate one, the state of crypto in 2024 feel like someone clinging to the idea of "being on the Internet" as the end game of that particular technology. Except, we know today that making the statement "I'm on the Internet" is largely meaningless. Good for you... but what do you DO, on the Internet?

What do you do with crypto? What do you do with blockchain technology and web 3.0? We can't delude ourselves that it is "enough" to simply be "in" Web 3.0.

Hive and INLEO have an interesting — but sadly underappreciated — leg up in the sense that we have content creation, and we have Splinterlands and we have other fledgling business projects. I'm hopeful that @thelogicaldude and his ecommerce efforts will eventually gain some traction. I'm hopeful that @holozing will gain some traction. I'm hopeful that the shopping/commerce efforts of @waivio will gain some traction.

And I am extremely hopeful that no idiots will decide that "the problem with Hive" is something that has to be solved by tweaking the rewards system, or changing some other fundamentals that complete miss the point.

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