In a couple days my Hive account will reach 150k HP. I take this as a significant milestone in this amazing journey. The road to get here has been awesome. I wouldn't change a thing. I am grateful for the blockchain and the community. While it is great to unlock new levels of HP, the most rewarding part has always been the journey itself. HP does have real financial value. But the value of knowledge, skills, and relationships built is many times higher. There were many many times in the past, regardless where my HP was, it could have translated in a lot higher USD valuation. These days Hive's price has been stuck in lowest levels. But that would last for long. There will be a time that we will be celebrating price appreciations as well. In general, short term movements don't matter much, as long as the long term vision is clear. Thank you Hive!
The question is why do we still Hive? Why am I still here? Why are you on Hive? It is a simple question. Yet is very important to ask for anything we dedicate our time to. Time is the most precious. Things that add value and meaning to our journey in life are what deserve our time. I believe Hive is worthy of our time and dedication. Many of us can easily list many reasons why to Hive. I would like to share three of them today. There are many, but the three I mention probably are among the top reasons to Hive.
1. Perfect Ownership
What we own doesn't and shouldn't define us as humans. However, our ability to own plays an very important role for individuals, organizations, companies, societies, and governments. There are different types of ownership we experience throughout our lives. Most of them are not perfect. Property rights are not great everywhere, protections of property rights are not present everywhere, and there is of course deception tactics to lure us out of owning what we poses. Traditional financial system is a perfect example. Too many people are in debt. Too many companies are in debt. Too many governments are in debt. What they have they don't necessarily own. What they own can be taken away. So, I believe ownership is super important.
Hive provides perfect ownership. Not only the perfect ownership of our wallets and assets, but also perfect ownership of our accounts and all activities and actions performed by the account. Simply put there is nobody that can take away our Hive accounts and/or wallets. I believe Hive ownership is perfect because of how easy to use it, layers of security, and complete control. I have written many times in the past how obsessed I am with the Hive wallet. There isn't anything like it. In addition to free and fast transactions, Hive makes it super easy to manage the accounts and wallets. Sure, there may be a little bit of learning curve for a new Hive account owner. But once these simple steps are understood, nothing is complicated any more.
Layers of security of Hive wallets, how different keys are used for different aspects of Hive life, how the chain itself is decentralized and secure makes us not worry about our property. I can say our assets are are more secure on Hive than in some banks. Of course, it is owners responsibility to understand the basics of securing keys. Once it is clear, there isn't much to worry about. Complete control over our accounts and wallets completes the perfection. It us who decide who may have access to our accounts, or access to certain type of actions. Ideally, we would want to keep all keys secure and don't share with anybody. If there is a need for shared control, we can always create new accounts for those purposes.
2. Hive Rewards
You may have heard me saying Hive is a giving network. There are many different ways of earning rewards on Hive. It is not limited to only author and curator rewards. While most of the rewards are in the form of content rewards, there are many other ways of being rewarded on Hive. That actually makes Hive journey even more interesting. This encourages us to participate and engage in various communities, projects, building. Hive rewards are not limited to Hive and HBD coins, there are layer 2 tokens that also have proved to be rewarding. Different apps, games, projects proven to be rewarding at different levels at different times. There are many more to come in the future. That is the power of Hive - to power layer 2 innovations. We have seen many already. Some became successful, some failed. Some stayed on the platform, some move on to different one. It is all ok in an open network. Anybody is welcome to join and leave as they find fit.
Today we may heavily rely on rewards from the core rewards system and enjoy content rewards, witness rewards, hbd interests, dhf funding. There will come a day when most of the economics, rewards, and engagement will involved layer 2 creative solutions. It may be the games, it may be the social platforms, it may be business projects, it may be e-commerce, etc. We already have layer 2 solutions that have been doing great building. Because of this bear market we may not have seen huge price appreciations for them yet. We still can enjoy them. I am sure future is bright in these areas for Hive. Success of layer 2 implementations is where Hive's future is.
3. Trust In The Hive Community
I have huge trust in Hive community. This amazing community has proven to be resilient, creative, kind, genius and stupendous. If we need communities to belong to, there are many out there. We are not the biggest community. We are not the smartest community. We are not the richest community. What we are is the community of ordinary people from all walks of life from around the world who joined in one idea, one mission - decentralizing the web. This is a noble idea, this is a mission worth participating in and being part of. Ordinary people are building this decentralized network on daily basis, ordinary people are contributing to the success of the chain every day, ordinary people are benefiting from each other and the network doing ordinary things.
There are so many amazing people within the community doing amazing work, building impressive solutions. They are developers, they are investors, they are creative minds, they are professors, they are students, they are us. They all could have been anywhere else, and would be immensely successful where-ever they go. They chose to be here, to build here, to grow here. These are not just words. All of these are proven records. I trust this community. Proud to be part of it.
I can list many more reasons why to Hive. The more important questions are Why Aren't You On Hive? Why Don't You Hive? But this questions would be for those who aren't yet on Hive, those who haven't discovered this amazing network yet. Tell me why you still Hive in the comments. What would be your top 3 reasons?