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RE: AskLeo - Why Hasn't Hive Gone Mainstream Yet?

in LeoFinance3 years ago

For me, when I came to Hive, I didn't use Facebook nor Instagram that much. I used them to post in Facebook Marketplace and keeping me updated with local busineses making their updates thru Facebook.
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter they all seem complicated to me up to the point that I don't use them for my personal posts.
So when I got into Hive thru Splinterlands, I was even more baffled at how PeakD or Hive Engine worked. The terms like resource credits, upvote mana, HP, HBD, and all these acronym terms made the learning curve even steeper.

It was thanks to a couple of intro posts and videos that I spent my time to sit and watch is when I started to understand the mere basics of it.
But for the newcomer coming from Facebook, being a Hiver is going to be an uphill climb with rocks tied to their feet.

The thing that makes it easy for a Hive adopter versus other crypto ecosystems is that Hive uses a human friendly username as the public address. This eases out a lot of mistakes and misunderstandings as well as complexity layers when it comes to dealing with wallet mechanics, but even with that, crypto for the masses is still in its beta stage. There are way too many hurdles and dumb proofing to be made in crypto's architecture before it starts to be adopted by the masses, maybe Hive is going to be the breakthrough, or maybe Solana or perhaps Avax, no one knows.
There are many manholes uncovered in the crypto design that perhaps it is never going to take off due to the complexity of its design as well as the ever lurking danger of one single implementation vulnerability that makes the thief hiding in the manhole getting away with all the stored value in it.

But in the meantime, while I wait for the world wide adoption of cryptos, Hive is a good classroom and practice lab where I can teach my family how to deal with cryptos in an understandable way with practice infrastructure already built as Dapps, without the complexities of strings and strings of public keys where one single mistake in a character ends up with your funds sent into an irretrievable black hole address. Or the fear of opening your Metamask wallet in a phishing website promising you airdrops and the next second your wallet is emptied because they were able to read all your private keys the moment you opened your Metamask wallet.