The way it works is that the price needs to go up first to get adoption as the majority who ever used Hive mainly does it for the earning potential. What most likely will happen is when crypto goes up, some of the core Hive users will buy more in case the price doesn't follow the market. Once BTC reaches above 100k, Joe Public will get interested again and Hive might be a project they get drawn to with the idea they can earn. Once the bull run is over most will leave again while the core users will stay keeping hive a nice blockchain with a small but loyal userbase. I expect Hive to easily reach 1$ at some point just because not that much is needed to get there. Likely Hive won't move along with the market but it will have big pumps out of nowhere followed by some profit-taking to get the price down again a bit higher than what it was before each time/

What would help a lot is to onboard some new builders who develop great dapps/games on the chain.

Regardless of what Happens, I'm along for the ride.