What a great and profoundly important question to ask and explore - what is Hive? Well as we have discussed it's so many things and could be even more things, it's not just one thing and that's a good thing.

I have been thinking long and hard about this question since you sent it to me on Discord in a random DM a little while back. This question was even touched on in the last edition of the Crypto & Cola Show and I really wanted to expand on it because I still can't comprehensively answer your question, but it needs answering.

Some say it was not created for blogging, that was ancillary. Others say the initial concept was blog to earn so I really don't know the principal reason Dan and Ned created the legacy chain. I think they, like many others, envisioned it to have multiple purposes and blogging was a part of the concept. How central blogging was to the original idea I do not know.

As you have highlighted games also bring people to Hive. But I think, and I will keep saying this, Hive's greatest quality is found in the levels of innovation that are innate in the platform and concept. You can not escape it. So yes there's blogging, yes there's games, yes there's tokenised projects, yes there's socialising, yes there are a million and one ways to make money and play the entrepreneur but there is still so much more. Hive hasn't come anywhere near to fulfilling its true potential, despite all the achievements.

Others have attempted to answer your question and I still haven't heard a comprehensive answer as to what Hive is. But therein is probably a large part of the answer.

I really think we should expand on this at the next show and get more opinions from people, what do you think?


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