Maybe if Hive went to $25 it would bemore likely... but then there would be 25x more people competing for the pool, so it would probably end close to the same

Considering my personal experience of 2017 and 2018 I can say that it would take multiple years for those new users to compete with our community standing, reputations, and social network. Also at $25 I have a $200 upvote and make $1000 a day just from curation. Plus my blog I'd easily make a million dollars in one year. That's like international news status considering our standing in developing nations. 9 billion dollar market cap we wouldn't even be close to top 10.