We only really need to become big in one region to eventually become big everywhere. On the other hand there's little point in being a little bit everywhere, but not especially big in any single location.

The reason for that is that economic network effects with money are in practice pretty local. The vast majority of financial transactions that almost everyone does, are the small ones that people use day to day, with people they meet in person. Particularly things like going to the grocery store, the coffee shop, the pub etc.

A network like ours needs to get to the point where there is a self-sustaining economy that is using it at its core. If Hive and HBD starts being used not just as a niche source of income, soon converted into local currency, but as something that people are using together in their local community, in their local shops and businesses - that is a solid foundation to expand from. A smaller presence in many places, but where you cannot use Hive or HBD in your local community, is much more likely to disappear at any time.

In Venezuela, the stars somewhat align to make this a possibility. Money is not functioning as it should in the country, and people are basically crying out for a solution to this. It also just happens to be where we have our largest community by far, and that was before we made any particular effort for it to be the case. By making efforts to grow in this particular market, we are attempting to exploit an opportunity that doesn't yet exist elsewhere (although some countries like Turkey and Argentina are potentially on a Venezuela-like trajectory).