Hey man! Thanks for stopping by!

I think the price is going down because we are in the heavy mining phase of the chain and a lot of users prefer to try to time the market vs hold it.

Inflation is "high" right now but the inflation rate slowly goes down over time.

You basically mine for HIVE when you post or curate. In the early days of Bitcoin and Ethereum mining, people sold most of it and many people just lived off it. Similar thing is happening to HIVE and it is getting progressively harder to mine/live off of (which is by design because the inflation rate goes down).

The biggest difference between HIVE and BTC is BTC is hard capped but HIVE is inflationary so HIVE will naturally go down in USD terms unless people want to buy more HIVE than we are printing.