It was November 2018 and I had just returned from Steemfest 3 in Krakow, Poland. My heart was full of hope, I had finally seen the potential of Steem beyond Steemit the blogging site. What I saw at that conference was how the Decentralised applications (Dapps) were going to take the world by storm and how Steem was the perfect platform to do so.
Then just a few short months later, after Ned Scott sold us out to Justin Sun everything seemed like it was in tatters. Steem had forked to Hive, there was in-fighting and bickering and the optimism that had washed over me just a couple of months previously, had turned into cold hard cynicism, with a healthy dash of pessimism thrown in.
Lately though, I have found that rather like a sea tide inching its way up the beach as it comes in, my optimism is slowly returning.
Twin Peaks
Months after the forking of the Steem blockchain into Hive the two cryptos seemed indelibly linked. Even though after the initial fighting things died down to the point that any new user on either platform, could be forgiven for not even noticing that there had been a fork. Or any kind of feud bubbling under the surface.
However it was the market that seemed to link the two, the price of Steem and Hive seemed to always be around the same and went through rises and dips at the same time.
The only difference seemed to be between the Steem Backed Dollar (SBD) and the Hive Backed Dollar (HBD), but as far as the main coins, the market treated them the same.
NFT Breakout
Following the huge success of 
Hopefully we see a further strengthening of Hive's NFT presence with new NFT initiatives under the Hive brand. With additions to the main sites to create, buy and sell NFTs because that is definitely where are immediate future lies.
What Next For Hive?
Well this is an exciting time, we are seeing the Hive price rise and wonderful initiatives such as Punks On Hive and 
It's hard to know what will come next, nobody really saw NFTs as the next big thing, all I know is, we have a great blockchain and my enthusiasm is as high as it has ever been!
WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHICH DIRECTION IS HIVE GOING IN NEXT? HOW CAN WE CAPITALISE ON THE NFT CRAZE?
AS EVER, LET ME KNOW BELOW!
Cryptogee