People are in the cryptoverse for various reasons. Some want to make a quick buck and treat crypto like the casino. Others want to opt out from the rotten traditional financial system and hope crypto is the alternative. Others see crypto and blockchains as part of the future and want to position themselves accordingly. And others love crypto and blockchains when they are less exposed to centralized control and censor.
One can be in crypto for more than one reason, of course. But usually one reason is more dominant over the others.
On Hive I believe we have people for all of the above reasons. Hive, at the base layer is more decentralized than other blockchains and it is censorship resistant, thus being a great medium for people seeking these qualities.
At the same time, at the base layer Hive incentivizes long term holding through powering up and to some degree the HBD savings account (the liquidity is not available instantly).
One thing that I remarked over time since I'm on Hive is that I started to discern much easier the smoke and mirrors used by the powers that be - often using mainstream media - to either kill a dangerous wave (for them) that grows in popularity or move the attention elsewhere.
Everyone not living under a rock for the past half a year or so, knows the entire world (or most of it) is deepening into an economic crisis. And we are at the start of it.
Obviously people don't like this situation, and there is a growing discontent, although many don't express themselves publicly yet.
What do politicians watch like hawks? Polls! I don't think they do very well these days.
So they react as they can, each with their own limitations. One threatens to become a dictator in North America, many others started to play a war rhetoric.
What do people fear more than prices doubling, tripling and so on? They might fear war more.
If the subject wouldn't be such a serious one, it is actually funny to watch the propaganda from both sides play this game of war.
And that's what politicians from "both sides" are trying to accomplish, in my opinion, to keep the public entertained and scared by the prospect of war so they forget about their day-to-day growing problems.
Will Russia start a war against Ukraine? It seems very unlikely. The war rhetoric is beneficial to both sides (Russia and the West), an actual war would probably bring Russia to its knees in the aftermath, since they are the ones who would start it. Ukraine won't cross the border into Russia to attack - they have no reason to. Putin played his bluff, the West called it. He showed Russia's military muscles, again, but I believe now he's the one that will deescalate, because there are no other good options for them. It costs serious money to keep the army mobilized, so time is ticking.
