First of all, it's good to see you, I often think about our poker game in Poland and the way you had me totally figured out after about 15 minutes! 🤣 I still need revenge!!

This is what happens when you get developer minds to come up with game theory and business decisions. That's why Dan Larimer makes for a great CTO and not a CEO.

This is what I've been saying for years, but in the end I gave up because every time I pointed out something that was wrong and gave suggestions as how to fix it, I was railed against. Apparently by speaking up it showed that I wasn't community-minded.

Ultimately Hive will never go anywhere because it is leaderless and rudderless. Don't get me wrong, plenty of people will still have a fun old time here, but as far as mass adoption is concerned, you can forget it.

Whilst our fellow nerds and geeks might understand "Hive is more than just a blogging site", Mr and Mrs Joe Public have no freaking idea, so when they come to a site that looks like it was designed in the early 2000s and forgotten about, they shrug and leave, never to come back.

I mean, the fact that the name Hive was chosen in the first place, shows the shortsightedness involved in making such decisions. The first time I searched for Hive blockchain, I came up with a completely different company!

The fact I was able to do this in less than 2 seconds and the person responsible for changing the name from Steemit to Hive, didn't even bother to do a Google search, shows that things are not good.

Anyway, I've accepted that it's not going to change and I just treat Hive as a repository that I occasionally check in with, sometimes write content for and move a bit of Hive/SBD around.

Next time you're in London give me a shout, perhaps we can arrange some poker-chess marathon, although last time I checked your chess content, you had improved by a scary amount 😲

Peace.

Cg