In this post I asked people to guess on the price of BTC at 9:30 am New York Time on Black Friday with a price of 5 HSBI to the person the closest. And.... I had no takers. None of you like HSBI — or just no one actually read the post?
Lately my posts are getting about 50 views, with around 30 or those being unique. (You can see you posts stats on the Peakd Insights page). But that particular post got exactly 1 view. Only 1. I did get a few comments, so I will give people the benefit of doubt and assume they were using a browser (probably Brave) that blocks all trackers, so peakd wasn't able to register their view. I know I do this — taking care to block pretty much everything every site requests. So I understand others wanting to do the same.
Whatever the case may be, that's not unusual. Most Hive posts get very little actual traffic. You might be fooled by the high payout on some posts, but the majority of those votes on most people are autovotes. Again, Hive's audience does lean towards the more cautious libertarian attitude, so I'm sure that skews the stats down, but even so... they need to be much higher. How many hits does Medium get do you imagine? Do you think Hive gets even a fraction of that?
Which highlights one of the major problems we've always had. For whatever reason, few people who aren't already members here ever stumble onto these pages, and the people who are already members here are all more interested in writing their own content than in reading the content of others. The fact that most Hive users would rather be writing than reading
I don't know the solution here. We need to get Hive posts ranked higher on Google so we can actually attract people here. And we need to onboard people so we actually grow this place.
Oh well. Anyway, since I'm in a good mood, despite no one actually making the requested guess, I'm going to go ahead and send an HSBI to everyone who gave a comment. Here you go!
Have a good weekend, y'all!