I'm still here with you, and appreciate all the hard work you put in 😀

I have to admit I'm less active than I was, but that's mainly down to life here in the UK being a massive struggle compared to how things were even a couple of years ago.

When I first joined Hive, I spent a good amount of cash buying in. I feel stupid now, having paid £0.30-£0.40 for a token that's now worth approximately the square root of fuck-all. But I did follow that basic rule of only spending money you can afford to lose, so although I feel dumb about making an investment that's become worthless it doesn't mess up my life.

But I think Hive still has value and huge potential. I now regard it as a place for creative writing, and for learning about different cultures all around the world. I also think it's important as a censorship-resistant place at a time when most online activity in the UK is now heavily censored and monitored by the authorities. I find talking to people about Hive is most fruitful when I actually don't mention the crypto aspect at all and just talk about how it's used. Be nice if we had a new Splinterlands or something, to get outsiders to invest (without realising they're investing !).

So how do we heal Hive ? It may be counter-intuitive, but I think we need the price to go down a lot further. We need to get to a point where the greedy ones who treat the DHF as their personal piggy bank give up and leave. Some of the whales are good, ethical people. But we need to make the parasites leave and then take the opportunity to change our governance model; make the DHF a loan-giver, not a gift-giver, spread witness rewards more widely (maybe find ways for non-technical people to deploy "pre-packed" lite nodes on spare PC's, and focus on utility not rewards.