Over the years, I've seen a LOT of glistening, shiny replicas of Hive come and go. They had a lot more financial support and backing, a more centralised leadership and more ambitious teams.

And yet, they no longer exist. In the real world, the vast majority of business ventures fail, the majority of those failing in 5 years or less. It's a survivorship bias to simply say, buck your ideas up and you'll succeed. That just isn't true.

Again, Hive isn't meant to be some business venture where investors come and expect a product they can peddle. It's meant to be a background function that people use. The one thing that Hive as a society has failed to do, is find the right people to do that.

The goal, I believe, is not to suddenly boom into existence, hit headlines, and have a bunch of silicon valley entrepreneurs pour billions into it. That's a whole other world. The goal here is to create a powerful, functional tool. It just happens to work as a blog cuz thats how it started out.

The more people who make games like Holozing and Splinterlands, website builders, or news platforms, or payment tools, or educational tools, etc, the more accessible and successful the hive back end will become. But even then, Hive should be at most a vague shadow beaneath those projects, like a programming language or something.

It's very possible it will never happen, as you suspect, but I'd rather stick around and find out, while in the meantime benefitting from a quaint little community which has allowed me to take a year off work with my earnings and buy a nice expensive laptop ^__