at least it is very small. 😉

Very small, but still there as we can't sell it - locked for 2 years.

...why it is only "a bit," when the overall market is up considerably.

HIVE needs some decent external DeFi liquidity. It would not have been hard to build a proper, funded bridge for HIVE and HBD to a major eco-system. A deep HIVE/ETH pool as the biggest liquidity source, would help HIVE ride on ETH's coat-tails.

Some have tried, in some manner, but it would require co-ordinating from the HIVE establishment.

For now, we remain swimming on HIVE island, surrounded by a sea of crypto's we can only get to via Binance or a couple other CEX's.