Rest assured that Hive's unsatisfactory performance compared to Steem has nothing to do with fundamentals. We know for a fact that the former is fundamentally light-years ahead of the latter but the price doesn't show it.

There is a direct correlation between their price movements though and it can be clearly observed by overlaying the two charts.

The only difference is that Hive moves more dramatically.

For a long while I've had a suspicion that there is a certain someone or a group of people who don't want to see Hive prosper more than Steem and it might turn out to be true.

Just look at the chart. Every single time Hive has a signifficant pump the price is instantly crashed by 30-60% while when Steem pumps, it doesn't dump as much.

In turn this makes Steem stay above Hive and makes it look like there is more interest in Steem than Hive which couldn't be further from the truth.

Imho it's just Sun's crooked marketing technique to entrap noobs into a valueless shitcoin.

This can't go on forever.