I like what I am seeing on Hive of late, people talking about DeFi options, interoperability, piggybacking on other chains, atomic swaps, with gateways and applications popping up all over the place. It is exciting and if a few of these things pull together at the right time, they can offer a relatively clean user experience into crypto - something that Hive is built for.
In regards to this, 
I know many hive users that have never even used bitcoin before they earned Hive for the first time, not many cryptos, if any can say that.
This is very important. I am one of these users, someone who before my signing up, had zero experience with cryptos or blockchains, other than knowing the name Bitcoin. Due to my financial situation at the time, I had no way to buy in and like many others, I had 15 starting Hive Power to my name and a blank digital sheet to start from. Again, I know that this isn't how people see Proof of Brain, but I think that the many people who have been able to build their account up from nothing to some of the largest on the platform through participation, have proven something.
No crypto project in the future is going to be able to stand on its own two feet without becoming part of the larger crypto ecosystem. However, it is going to take a very long time if all the projects have to rely on people first finding and making the step into Bitcoin, before they can cross over and explore what else is out there.
Hive being a community orientated infrastructure has a massive advantage in this area as not only is it geared toward social interaction, it also provides the ability to easily integrate those web3 experiences and games as well as giving them access to a mature community base, core and second-layer tokenization and economics, a host of configuration options, as well as feeless transactions for whatever kind of utility they desire. Hive is built for direct onboarding that bypasses the "traditional" stepping stone of Bitcoin and Eth.
Hive is not just a collection of cells where the community resides, due to the decentralized nature of community driven development potential, it is also a hydra that can have an unlimited number of faces that are all connected to the core blockchain. This means that while these faces can be highly diverse in their use case or community genre, they are all connected to the core body, meaning that entering through one gateway facing adds user mass to the entire organism. Not only that, that one account cell has options to enter multiple other facings and feed their own diverse tastes for entertainment, education or employment.
This of course has advantages for the investor set of user also, as the more facings there are, the more applications, use cases, web 3 sites and communities attached to the body, the more stable and through the growing mass, the gravity brings in more users through various networks and channels. This means that while currently volatile, as the entire crypto ecosystem normalizes, Hive could stabilize faster than other projects as it doesn't rely on a single user group. Create bridges to other similar projects like Ethereum, and a fabric of blockchains that serve a highly diverse set of users can be somewhat harmonized globally and still remain decentralized.
This approach fits the approaching conditions of society, employment and economy much better than what any of the current government based system can, without trapping or controlling people, as it is all opt-in. Right now it is about getting on the field of play and being where the ball will be, even though the whistle hasn't blown and most of the players haven't even started warming themselves up.
Hive can hit the ground running and become the public facing for crypto and the core hub and user distribution channel for all the people to come, all those who are yet to buy their first satoshi - like me, back in the day.
While we all want the price to pump and reward our hodl, there is more to the success of Hive than this and it is going to come down to how the technology and community are able to become applicable to the changing of society. The centralized social platforms that revolutionized global connectivity and fundamentally changed how we consume, how we speak and how we spend - are cracking. They are cracking because they engineered a world they thought they could control, but have since pushed their oppressive regime too far and now, we are pressing back. And we are pushing back in a way that they never would have predicted, by replacing the global economy and slowly making all of their gains volatile to the point of valueless.
Slowly, slowly - the walls are coming down and we can not only see each other - we can empower each other.
Taraz
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