Alright, before all of you start yelling at me and cursing me out let me explain what i mean.
Ive thought about this for quite a while and it became pretty clear fairly quickly.
At this point in time, after we got all the attention we did and after the drama ended with Justin, wer in this position of "well, what do we do now?".
What is the way forward?
The incoming HF is pretty neutral and boring, the whitepaper what you would expect.
For all the nonsense of Steemit and Neds autism, there was always a vision. A goal to achieve. It never got achieved ofc, but it was there.
Someone had a vision and that vision was accepted by the community.
It was all BS, it never had a future, but lets not pretend for a second that even the biggest of stakeholders didnt "buy into" that vision. You bought Steem, held it, and even when you could have locked the Stinc stake before all the drama happened, YOU DIDNT!
Look, i can understand the current idea wer propagating about HIVE. Decentralization, censorship resistance, we all pull the weight, "We have no CEO".. bla bli bla.
STFU for a second, will ya?!
Thats not how the world works and thats even less the case when it comes to how crypto works. We dont get to run around like headless chickens with all of us having their own ideas of what Hive is without any vision or goal in mind.
Oh, you dont have a CEO, ima buy some Hive right now!
NO.
There is no Satoshi and even the maximalist idiots managed to pull the "store of value" narrative out their ass and save Bitcoin. But Hive isnt Bitcoin. It doesnt have a 170 billion MC, it doesnt have everyone flocking to it, the guys we have now, are the guys we have. Thats it.
We can keep the facade we have now and still play by the rules of the crypto market. The crypto market is shallow, stupid, driven by emotion, by hype, by quick profits. Its immature and toxic.
You need to learn how to outplay the players.
Drop everything you think you know about crypto ideals.
For most the crypto ideal is the US dollar.
There is no angel investor coming in to save an idea thats been here for 4 years and is on a steep decline.
Ive read the Hive proposed whitepaper and while i did openly say i didnt oppose it, it was fine, it doesnt really change much of anything in relation to where we were before STEEM.
Dumping the Stinc stake aside, Justin with reducing the powerdown time on Steem to 4 weeks did more for Steem then the Hive community managed in the same time.
And, ugh i have to mention the 
Things like this that go against the core interests of HIVE happen precisely because of one thing.
LACK OF LEADERSHIP.
No one stepping up to set an example!Look, people are generally stupid and follow perceived power.. I know thats not a popular thing to say, but its true. History has shown us that many times.
Thats why you need someone with great influence to set the norm of behavior. Thats the case here as much as it is IRL.
And let me explain what i mean by "leadership".
Not what Justin wanted to be. Not what Ned was.
Im talking about those that invested greatly in this platform, those that hold most of the influence, those whose stake naturally leads others towards them, those that by simply "speaking" can move a decision in one direction rather then the other if they wanted to, that can affect popular opinion.
These people need to step up. Not to take over anything. Not to impose their will on the platform but to establish a vision, a norm of behavior and stand by it firmly.
Those that can do it need to do it and not allow swine to cultivate their own degenerate culture that repels most off of the back of HIVE., with inaction, as weve seen most recently.
Hive doesnt need a dictator, it doesnt need someone to bring the hammer down. Hive needs a thought leader or more then one, someone to form a core group of individuals that can reform the idea of what HIVE is, that can share it with the community at large, that can put into practical terms an idea that they might have.
Not exclusively those that deal with zeros and ones, NO.... but rather people with solutions and unique ideas. Those that arent afraid to make necessary changes, those that dont fear moving away from the status quo that leads us to a ever dwindling market cap..
Wer a small platform and this ship needs a captain. And its probably you 
Any way you flip it... you need to step up. Bitshares is history but HIVE might have a shot.
"No leader!" (in any sense) is in direct opposition to stake based decision making. Leader doesnt mean dictator.
Dont make me quote uncle Ben. ;)
Peace.