As always, it is a pleasure to read one of your posts and the analyzes developed in these posts.

You define HIVE as:

If we bore down to its essence, Hive is a decentralized text storage system that allows anyone to write to the database

However, it seems to me that the definition you offer of what HIVE is is at least incomplete.

HIVE It is not only a text database as you describe it, but it is also INDELIBLE and of purely personal content associated with a particular HIVE account. And perhaps it is one of the aspects that is least taken into account but which is the one with the greatest significance when it comes to understanding what exactly HIVE is. Many people are posting text to this indelible database, very personal and critical information, which they may not regret in the future.

Furthermore, when someone publishes any type of content on the blockchain, a fundamental question arises: who has the right to show said content to the rest of the world? Is it the interface or app that registers the content in HIVE or any app we develop in the future? By the current standard, all these interfaces that we have developed at HIVE are nothing more than copies, and they are all plagiarizing the content of another site. We may know who the real author is, but who has the right to publish such content. This seems stupid, but it is the main reason why it is impossible to establish a clear strategy to promote the HIVE blockchain. For real purposes, all apps such as ecency, peakd, hive.blog, etc, are nothing more than websites that copy content from other sources, without the right to do so. Perhaps, within the HIVE community, this is well seen, but for the rest of the world, that many websites publish exactly the same content, from the same author, is nothing more than plagiarism. Therefore, they are websites that should not be promoted or referenced.

I am convinced that the future of HIVE depends on us being able to understand that all apps that are developed in the future take the value of the content that HIVE users create much more seriously. The information stored in a database does not have any value per se, but what is important is how we use that information to generate wealth, promote new services or new economic structures.

And the most important thing is to understand that those who generated that content are the true owners of all that wealth that can be generated by exploiting that content. It is not the apps that should benefit in themselves, but should be the authors of that content that in some way transfer part of those possible benefits to the apps, such as commission or payment for the exploitation of that content in the new economic structures.

Of course, HIVE is very difficult to define because it is simply something totally new for which the proper markets have not yet developed. Market development is a natural stage that follows the growth of a system, and the problem is that HIVE has not yet reached its critical stage of growth. But, for HIVE to begin to grow at a rate that allows its development, it is necessary that most of the people who grow this large decentralized database are aware of the role they play in the growth and development of this new social and technological construct. . For this reason, articles like this are essential for HIVE to consolidate beyond the monetary value of a cryptocurrency.