Always brightens my day to read your uplifting posts.
Well where to start, I think we all heard the CIA built Bitcoin story. Especially with the transparency of BTC and most cryptos, it is hard to argue that the (deep) state is really against Bitcoin if not maybe even the inventor. Look how they all rejoiced when big banks/investors/companies allocated some of their portfolio into "finally the rich elite is accepting us".... pitiful.
On the other hand I generally like crypto, especially since I never had to put a dime of my real money into it. All earned via hive/Steem and schmartly invested :^). I see crypto as a sort of gamble, where you can lose it all like you said, but so far it has been a pretty good bet. I know, I know recency bias...
About hive in particular, it is a little disingenuous to have a 50$ Payout on your post to only then get 50% of it and then get 50% in power that is staked. Leaving you with a 12$ actual payout. However I though it is fine to only cash in 50% of my payouts and leave the rest staked, in other crypto communities you can easily become the target just for making any sell move. Even you would have to agree that hive offers a whole lot more to a non-technical user than 99% of the other cryptos out there in ways to earn and participate.
Also there is this new thing called Solana, it can finally outscale Visa in transaction volume, maybe the "replace the dollar" dream is not dead yet.
RE: SELL !...SELL!... SELL !...This is not financial advice, it's a strategic overview...