Awaiting a Messiah
Sometimes I wonder what it will take for Hive to finally bloom and become mainstream. Will it be a gradual, combined effort of the entire community where we keep pushing the numbers up ever so slightly until we we reach a point of no return, or is it going to come from somthing or someone. Hive user Bhatt mentioned in an earlier post today what it would be like if a prominent crypto influencer like Elon Musk should promote the platform, giving us the ultimate marketing experience.
As much as I love to imagine such a scenario just like the next person, I have a knack for refusing to daydream. What are the chances that we get randomly noticed by Elon and he decides to promote the platform out of the goodness of his heart? It is possible, but the chances are very slim. Rather what is more realistic is that we probably keep doing the right things and announce ourselves to the point when we become referrals for the community for both investors and influencers alike.
This is why we all keep talking about Hive's fundamentals. The fundamentals are pretty solid despite the slow growth and that in itself is a big positive. Hive as it is perhaps cannot even sustain 200 million users for now. There was a time when it would have been difficult to sustain 10 million with the structural deficiencies that we had, but we are in a much better place. Prortizing the fundamentals over getting noticed at this early stage in my opinion remains the right thing to do.
It isn't like we cannot get noticed anyways, as I have earlier stated that there is a growing buzz around the chain that makes its eventual prominence inevitable in my opinion. They all stem from use applicablity, we just need to make user experience a bit easier and friendlier and eventually the buzz will generate enough excitement orginically to stimulate rapid growth.
There is even a danger of letting one influencer control the narrative as we have seen in the crypto space. Hive is somewhat different though, as am sure the user applications will be a lot different should we suddenly get mainstream attention compared to say Dogecoin, but I don't believe it remains the best route to getting the platform noticed in the long-run, even though the fundamentals will provide sufficient buffers in the advent of any outcome.
Perpahs growth will come from a random event and perhaps it won't. The imoportant thing is to keep developing the platform (and our individual assets) to a point where we expand capacity on what was previously possible. The more development that happens now, the better our chances of user retention when we finally get that big break. However it does happen though, growth remains inevitable.
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I hope that hive gets above all of the deficiencies and in time be able to accommodate as many users and investors conveniently.
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We might not need that many users to be considered successful. Compared to say facebook that has 3 billion users, the Hive chain will probably be considered a success with 10-20 million users. Different strokes...
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I have reply with what @taskmaster4450le When I ask something like this
Come to think of it ,hive is building everyday, with a lot of careful at hand because we know what we are doing and Know where we are going,it just a matter of time the news will explode like a time bomb
I strongly believe that commercial success of this place is inevitable
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Rather what is more realistic is that we probably keep doing the right things and announce ourselves to the point when we become referrals for the community for both investors and influencers alike. — You hit the nail on the head with this . We Hivers got no one except ourselves. To get people onboard on this platform adequate measures need to be put in place to make sure the blockchain is continually sustainable.
We have to give kudos to Hive Devs, Leo Devs and the community. The effort put in everyday is amazing
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amazing and inestimable!
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Sometimes it can be something as simple as playstore app. Once users start to use it and words spread, mass adoption can be quick !
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When mainstream adoption happens, it will happen so fast that we will all be left amazed. That is why it is so important to keep building and putting things in place with every opportunity we get
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I think that's for the best, really. I believe Hive will get its share of attention for what it is, rather than for who is involved. Much more sustainable in my opinion.
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Agreed. We don't need opportunistic investors anyways...
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You know what, we don't even need to get mainstream, we're fine this way. Sometimes it's better to be under the radar.
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I'm comfortable with growth under the radar for now. We can develop and learn from out mistakes without all the negative attention
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Exactly. And we're also away from prehistoric regulations.
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Well at this point i'm the closest thing to a hive messiah that has ever existed
What i speak about though is at this point a bit too complicated for most so it goes over most of the crypto space head. To try to reduce it to symbols you all can maybe better comprehend. The best example is satoshi.
A god like of a man figure.. that is driven on altruism and inspiration not capitalistic corporatist reasoning. So the early days of bitcoin is about freedom and developers aren't being paid. Communities and social cohesion and mantra and creeds are created. These are concepts beyond typical human reasoning and in contrast to what we have in crypto today is a devolution hijacked by lesser minds and lower frequency based individuals
So i don't wanna go to deep but i can hint at the true value and power lies in a stable currency because currencies create economic prosperity to the world why? because it's able to get in most peoples hands and lift them up in a socio-economic sense. Whereas a store of value or gold is only for a few people. Which is why gold ultimately fails as a money because it wasn't enough to go around. due to the scarcity.
So maybe you understand what i'm saying to you or you don't which is fine because it takes awhile for a large population of people to understand what is happening and how broad what they truly seek is which is a decentralization of wealth because the wider the gap the worse an economy becomes
Why doesn't everyone simply see it that way in crypto? Because animals lack higher level reasoning skills which is why messiahs have the ability to show light to those that lack the capacity to understand.
The reason people don't want you to care about these things and wanna say hey hive is fine as it is.. it doesn't need to grow etc.,.. well take a look at who's saying that? that's a very small minority of people who are winning on hive. that's certainly not most people and they fail to understand that weakens adoption. We hear things like oh hive is the monaco of crypto.. so if i'm at the top of hive why worry about anything else.. but you see what that is right? thats not going to create much incentive for hive to be of any significance. i also disagree with the idea hive can naturally morph into some great entity.. it's no reason for me to believe that. i could just as easily believe hive will just continually follow a chaotic path that's all over the place not knowing what the point of the chain is in competition with a oversaturated group of chains with the same capabilities and specifications. So humans may say they don't want leaders and messiahs and saviors but i'm here to tell you that's simply not true.. we've always depended on our heroes and those that would show us the light where none was shining.
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I certainly want Hive to expand and reach more people, that is the only way it will ever really fulfill its true potential. I agree that greed pervades in the crypto community, but that is simply human nature. The solution lies in giving people incentives to seek communual growth which Hive provides I believe
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Steem had a cyrpto visionary with connections to deep pockets. This visionary, named Justin Sun, turned out to be a nightmare.
I think that HIVE-Engine is the most likely source of the killer app that brings HIVE mainstream. This is why I am so infuriated with the 20% interest on HBD because it is undermining HIVE-Engine.
The witnesses are hoping that 20% interest would attract another Justin Sun. A better approach would be to promote HIVE Engine.
The main problem with HIVE-Engine is that it has poor documentation. Even worse, the interface is written in Python and Node.js. It is unlikely that serious organizations would bother with either the Node.JS or Python interface.
I doubt the HBD decision was targeted at a major investor, rather to attract more minor investors into the space. However it is, I believe it is a temporary decision and we'll see if they were right or wrong with it in a few months
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