Great stuff brother! It is so important that people figure out the hows & whys, instead of just always asking others for which one is next :-P

I've been teaching 2x a week crypto classes for the last month or so... definitely realized fully how few people understand the old financial/markets/banking/tech, much less are ready to really grasp the new haha.

I really love the comparisons of IPFS vs HTTP, credit vs crypto!

Remember to DCA (Dollar Cost Average)! If you buy Hive at $0.50 and it drops to $0.25, either you give the coin up for dead, or you buy more to lower your cost-per-coin, meaning you require that much less movement to get back to break-even. This is probably THE most missed thing for average people in investing of all kinds.

As to specific coins and such, I do have a couple specific things to throw out:

1. Social Media competitors - I highly recommend digging into Theta a bit. It seems like it may well become the video back-end for web 3.0
2. Privacy coins! Yes! I actually shifted away from PirateChain though, for a handful of reasons:
   2a. The "insta-mine" nature of it - in only 3 years, over 90% of the coins have been mined, largely by a handful of folks.
   2b. The entire recent rise in price is due to Jeff Berwick making it his TCV newsletter pick, and then raving about it constantly on social media (captain pump & dump - something the creator of KMD is also known for)
   2c. The "trusted setup" required of zk-snarks privacy
   2d. Komodo's centralization issues (ARRR is governed by KMD's notary nodes)
   2e. Some other, much smaller issues.
3. More specific privacy coins:
   3a. Thorchain (RUNE) is a private DEX/DeFi protocol
   3b. Lethean (LTHN) is a Monero fork, entirely community run, with a working decentralized VPN marketplace built in (the token's main/built-in utility is buying VPN service)