Perhaps Hive is transforming, rather than dying.

This place was built almost entirely on the notion of "get rewarded for content/activity." Because the money motivation outshines the actual doing things, Hive tend to shrink and grow with price trends. We've seen it before: Average daily users shoots up whenever the price of Hive shoots up; declines when the price declines.

Now we're sitting at or near all-time lows, so it figures those still here are less driven by rewards and more driven simply by participation. But there are not very many of them... in the hundreds, or maybe in the low thousands. in a sense, the silver lining of the price dump might be the "loss" of many cash grabbers.