We have to appreciate the fact that this place at least works now with no centralised control!

Yeah, I agree that this is the thing that should make hive a winner in the long term. Still, it is only realistic to look at things honestly and without the bias of 3+ years writing on steem/hive (which does tend to make me a believer). I see so many people on twitter, and writing posts in leo, that are doing nothing other than hyping without any sane analysis.

You're not one of them by the way. Your finance posts are pretty level headed.

But I have to be honest, as I've tried to be in this post, the hype/fanboy fervor does not really help draw anyone from the mainstream toward hive. If you look at what I was doing at the ink well, and what Hive account@shanibeer is now doing (more successfully than I did lol) there, these are the types of communities (and initiatives) that we need on hive. Communities that address some type of content, or subject, that has an established mainstream market to appeal to.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts. I really hope that hive survives the bitcoin bull to the point where some of the more focused projects can start onboarding mainstream people. Once the mainstream flood gates open things could get very wild (both price wise and engagement) very quickly :)

P.s. thanks for the tipu curation M8