he now has a Hive account that's marginally powered up to have a few resource credits.

Actually, he didn't have to do that either, but it helps with the growing need of RCs. Splinterlands delegates HP to accounts running out of RCs when playing Splinterlands (and takes it out if the RCs are close to max when the script checks).

Great post and couldn't agree more. Hive ecosystem is growing and in my opinion has become for some time more than a blogging ecosystem. We have games, simple or more complex tokens (with or without inflation) and soon smart contracts, NFTs, passive investment funds, video content and a link into the podcast world, plus potential bitcoin tipping via the lightning network (linked with Hive). I'm probably missing a lot from this enumeration.

Splinterlands has been a beacon and a locomotive at the same time a number of times for the Hive ecosystem (and previously) in terms of adoption and solid business model. This is just the most recent wave, and the most impressive so far.

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