It's not going up. HIVE is pretty much where it was 5 years ago, sure you get some more from inflation, blogging, curating, which is low paid work. However 1 HIVE is still worth a quarter or $0.25. BTC is up 12x, ETH is up 18x, BNB up 33x, XRP up 8x, other stuff which isn't a fair comparison are up even more but Hive is not up at all. If you go back to 2017/2018 when most of us got into Steem, it's down. If someone put $10,000 into BTC or ETH, in 2016 they would have a couple million dollars, if they put that into Steem/HIVE they would be lucky to have broken even.