Let me toss another one out at you Hive account@yabapmatt, even though it typically falls on deaf ears, even after almost four years.

Basically, why would someone want to get some HIVE? (and speculation on price appreciation or anything that boils down to "to earn more HIVE tokens" aren't acceptable answers).

We need some solid use cases that utilize what we have here, engages the membership and will draw in new people because the use itself onboards newcomers, not "the lure of crypto" or "the almighty blockchain" or the "chance to make lambo money."

What we need to to EXTEND what is being built on digital goods to physical goods and have an app that's a combination eBay/craigslist peer-to-peer marketplace that actually starts to make good on the original promise of cryptocurrency: to bank the unbanked and offer a means of exchange outside the fiat world.

We all have stuff, buy stuff, trade stuff and collect stuff... but why Hive?

Number one, low transaction cost, fast, large capacity... check.
Number two, sensible user names rather than a long string of meaningless characters.
Number three, global audience. That means global trade.

What I'm suggesting here is get back to basics. We can "fancy up" the value of the Blockchain till we're blue in the face, but why not apply it to one of the oldest human endeavors: Commerce and trade.

What else is cool about it?

THERE is a reason to get your hands on some Hive. We've got loads of anarcho-libertarian types who'd love to stick it to the government and fiat. And they all buy and sell stuff. We've got lots of people who are sick and tired of giving 10% to eBay and 3% to PayPal and... oh... another couple of percent for international currency exchange.

"Yeah, but they are still going to go change their Hive to fiat..."

Think BIG, think LONG TERM... they won't do that if the marketplace HAS THE GOODS they are looking to buy.

Don't think it can be done? It has already been done, although it's a closed system, where Hive would be an open system: Second Life... at one point the internal economy of Second Life reached the equivalent value of US $500 million+... and that was a long time ago.

Sure, it would probably require some serious coding by a number of developers for a long time... but with the world being sort of uncertain, the idea of creating an entire free-standing economy seems ripe for the picking. I think we need to get into some very basic things people do every day... "ordinary" stuff that would give "ordinary" (non-technical, non-blockchain, non-crypto) people a reason to get involved.

It has served eBay and Amazon pretty well... I think eBay's annual transaction value is about US $27Bn and Amazon's about $87Bn. Even if we just built a Hive-based $500 MILLION marketplace, the demand for Hive would be so huge the price would go 10x or more...