I must confess that I discovered Hive Blog through Leofinance since I am very passionate about financial and cryptocurrency topics and this portal gives me the opportunity to communicate and receive information from people who share the same interests as me, which I greatly appreciate. Yes, I feel like I live backwards from others, but I guess the order of the factors does not alter the final result.
The first thing I said when I joined Hive Blog is "Hell, why did I waste so much time on Facebook?", considering the fact of receiving an economic compensation for sharing content with an intelligent, organized and quite supportive community that defends this style of generating income through this great social network.
But beyond receiving economic compensation for my publications and supporting the community through curations, I feel involved in an ecosystem where if you work hard you win, regardless of the methodology in terms of the content you apply in Hive (writings, audiovisuals, art, and many more).
Another thing that people appreciate in Hive and its Dapps is the absence of censorship, an element that is very much appreciated by those who love freedom and want to live in highly democratic spaces. It's a fact: freedom generates creativity and from this creativity comes the contents that will be appreciated by all the members who will value with their upvotes and will generate economic income to the authors.
Another highlight of Hive is its quality of being self-sustainable, that is, it is not necessary to buy this cryptocurrency with fiat money, its own ecosystem creates the money with which the authors are rewarded, a methodology that makes it unique among most of the projects present in the crypto world.
However, Hive also has its critical points, such as the fact that a good part of the registered community is not encouraged to create content because they consider that the curators tend to be very demanding in the criteria for granting votes. On the other hand, there are groups or communities with the power to decide who receives or not the Hive (something like the ballenas of the BTC but at the level of authors) capable of sponsoring or sinking the creators, deciding whether their works or writings are likely to be rewarded with the cryptocurrency or forgotten in the bowels of the blockchain.
From my point of view the quality of what you present in this social network and its Dapps like Leofinance should prevail above anything else, as if it were a dogma, however I recognize that these groups far from helping push people away from integrating into Hive. The success of a community and its cryptocurrency lies not only in the quality of its project but also in its adoption among people.
I also think that Hive has a great opportunity to become a cryptocurrency for commerce, maybe in the future the Hive community itself will present us with a Dapp that will allow the exchange of goods and services electronically paid with our own cryptocurrency or tokens. For now I took the initiative to use Hive as a form of payment in small business. Its low cost is also attractive for the trade of goods and services, even though its price has increased pushed by the BTC wave, it is still very attractive to make payments.
The importance of Hive lies in its own capacity to generate a governance where decision making is done considering the opinion of all, being this the essence that is sought in a cryptocurrency project: the more participation and protagonism of the majority, the more powerful its economic influence in the world.
I have great confidence in Hive, Leofinance and all its Dapps, it seems that there are no limits for this project as well as tastes among those who are part of this community. Time will reveal if their method of action is the one to be followed as an example of success in this crypto business, by the winds that are blowing everything indicates that we are on the right track.