It's certainly a nice example of persistence paying off... at last. We kept plugging through 7c Steem in 2017 only to eventually get our efforts rewarded when it went to $8.00...

With Hive it feels like it could be a little more sustainable because there is so much development and innovation happening with new dApps... and successes like Splinterlands, and LeoFinance's "Project Blank" whenever they get that off the ground.