Hive will take off when the incentives are aligned for a moonshot.
That hasn't been the case at least since stinc kneecapped us with linear rewards and a two year development walkabout, it may be some time before it is the case again.
The cex's can all fall in a lake, as far as I'm concerned.
People can cuck for the bullies if they like, I won't be.
Vsc will solve this like v4vapp has for lightning.
Once we have the smart contracts fully functioning, then we can look at realigning incentives so that 50% of the daily inflation intended for attracting newbs doesn't go to the top 20 curation accounts leaving the other 50% to be split between 8k authors and even more curators.
Add to that fact that influencers were intentionally driven away and we have quite a hill to climb.
First stop, smart contracts.
I don't like the CEXs either but a lot of people use them as on and off ramps so even if the power users don't utilize them as much they still help bring liquidity.
In the early days of Stinc there was a lot of feeling ourselves out and trying to figure out what mechanisms would be best. The other chains clearly tried other things at this point. Personally I liked what DTube did as far as always just being liquid. I don't like the 3 month power down stuff. It doesn't seem to help anything. It just makes people hesitant because they feel like their funds are locked up.
Seems like there are some positive things going and I look forward to the smart contracts but in the same respect if we compare it to EOS, Telos, or WAX and they had smart contracts and faster block speeds.
HIVE has the first movers advantage and already developed apps and at least some continued support for some of the interfaces. Hive is pretty cool for sure. It is unfortunate that the community has gotten fractured up several times but it was a predictable future. It's like churches in the Midwest. Everyone wants to be in charge and everyone feels like they aren't getting the love they deserve. Now we have Blurt, Steem, Hive, DTube, Appics (Telos), not to mention DLive, Weku, Golos, BearShares, WhaleShares.
So much fracturing
There are some in the hive that are here to insure it doesn't succeed.
Not as many as before the fork, but there are clearly moles not interested in the success of hive.
It's hard to have a hierarchy without running afoul of powermongers.
Everybody wants to be the one that rules them all.
Power is a powerful drug.
I agree with that. They wouldn't come out completely and say they want HIVE to not succeed but I think they would rather it just be this under the radar thing that they are able to print money from. I would say at this point there are maybe 50 people or so that this is somewhat of a money printer for them and like the US governments insane spending habits it doesn't affect a lot of the people who escaped the matrix with extreme wealth. The citizens take the hit and decide to continue on or give up.
Do I blame some of them? Not really. The cryptos that have made big waves have suddenly been attacked. Look at HEX or SafeMoon and then all the stuff they say is an alleged security. It's a lot to fight against.