You came after the point of no return most likely. At least for practical purposes. The time to go all in was in 2020 or early 2021 at .077 - .10 cents where it was for months and then riding it to $3.35 top in late 2021. There will never be a return to that here for Hive again. They’ll be short term small artificial pumps and trades to make, but 30X ultra growth was 5 years ago and very short lived. I got lucky and started a power down at $1.00 and managed to sell 30K hive above $3.00 & 60K above $2.00 & rest at $1.50. I kept 20K of 150K and never went heavy again because growth all around slowed, we bottomed at .25 in bear low 2022 and then went below that cycle low in August 2024 when Bitcoin was already in bull mode , that was the red flag that made me say to myself if we get a artificial pump back above .50 I’m selling 75% again because it’s clear signal we ain’t participate in bull season, and I did when we had weird artificial pumps doubling price in a minute with insane volume and clear it was purposely getting worst price and sign it was a group playing the new Hive contracts on Binance at time. I sold everything besides 15K and got out above .45 cents what I had bought back at .18 in 2024. As small as hive is, the general signals worked perfectly to time and predict what was coming. Once cap gets this low, it’s possible traders can move it easier than most and we can see artificial pumps, but growth is beyond dead, it’s bleeding every year since 2021. 2024 & 2025 especially ugly. I know you know a lot and have experience in buying low things in trouble that look promising to go higher, but I will never understand buying hive as it free falls to hundred of thousands of token degree. You have my respect! I’m just saying I see lower lows coming also and as someone who sold the cycle top twice, don’t see buying here in beginning of bitcoin bear cycle a good idea. Hive will go lower and certain to .05, likely lower this year. We bled out during the crypto bull cycle and will do so faster during the bear cycle. Only thing that’s possible is due to low market cap, a group of big money traders artificially pumping in short term for outside reasons like playing contracts on both directions, they were able to totally manipulate our price by just increasing volume 150X for two days. You might find the volume numbers for December 2024 & Jan 2025 quite interesting actually.

This chain won’t die, there are always hobbyists who will continue to run nodes and keep it going, most these things “fail” is going to sub penny and just forever being a low trades .0001 fraction price. Never goes to zero. I love hive and post for fun, I removed all my delegations that upvoted posts daily and watched my posts drop in value, but they’d find by me, I didn’t wanna be part of the problem anymore. @thefed was right! Most accounts here who earn $5.00 to $10.00 on posts, 90% of upvotes are bought through delegation or with Leo strait up paid for with a monthly subscription. It’s a clear rrsssin most of good amount mail in effort. The thing is this doesn’t work long term because the token being earned will fall long term and the thousands kept staked to delegate drop on dollar terms as does saved rewards after years. Just look at Steemit to see how that goes. 99% of accounts at Steemit just delegate to upvote bots and have no views or comments. We still have real interaction here but we are heading the same way if nothing changes.