Special regards to Blocktrades for the excellent exchange services they provided throughout their active period on the Hive chain. Turns out that at a point running the exchange platform was an act of sacrifice on their part for the Hive community, and it makes me wonder how many stakeholders are actually sacrificing quite a bit just to contribute their own quota to Hive's development.

Another reason why I started with the shoutout is because in their announcement they actually pledged long term commitment to Hive. I reckon for anyone who's been active and working on the chain (creators, holders, developers, marketers and so on), it can definitely be frustrating to see us make minimal strides in terms of reach over the last couple of years. Surely there is a limit to that? Well, not for the average Hive stakeholder it seems.

There's something about quick results that acts like a drug. Even the best of us are sometimes lured into the temptation to take the fastest route because who wants to spend an eternity waiting for something that isn't guaranteed? Heck, even our attention spans look for the fastest routes to deriving pleasure. I certainly prefer short form to long form content, and can only manage so many 1000 word articles or hour long blogs.

Perhaps the one thing that may enable us get by is the promise of results. When studying for an exam, we know we are obliged to read in order to improve our chances of getting better results. Without giving it our best there is very little possibility of success. Yet even that isn't a guarantee to the result itself. We merely do what we're supposed to do in the belief that things will turn out well.

The flipside remains that nothing is particularly guaranteed or set in stone. People tend to get frustrated after being consistent for a while with minimal results. I have talked about how consistency needs to be accompanied by a gracious amount of patience, but is there supposed to be a limit where we simply say we've had enough and move on?

The crypto space these days continues to serve powerful tests of our patience. There are very few things we have control over especially when it involves redirecting interest and traffic for the right reasons into the chain. Predicting the markets these days is a laughable venture when regulators can come in and disrupt the flow at any given moment. We yet have to rely on our actions being enough to attract the results we want.

Conclusion

If we witness the same slow growth over the next couple of years would you keep pushing the Hive platform? At what point would you say 'am done' with the crypto space if we witness sustained periods of decline. Hive's distribution enables virtually all of us to be stakeholders as long as we're active. It will be extremely difficult to leave a platform already doing so much with such limited capacity. We must continue to believe that this never ending test of patience will come to an end, especially for those who are making sacrifices.