And it deserves some retrospection and reflections

On this day in 2017, I joined HIVE (aka Steemit then) and it has been a tremendous six years, expressing my feelings on this chain, in the form of my blog. In fact my crypto journey started that year itself with one of my friend pinching the idea of investing in bitcoin. Remember the Gainbitcoin scheme from Amit K. Bhardwaj ? It was found to be a big scam and I had a meeting with him , after which he shared some presentation. Some of my friends invested without getting into the details, but I insisted few more meetings to go into the detailed level and fortunately they never happened. Some of my friends lost money, thankfully I did not invest but I learnt about crypto and joined this platform. Since then I have invested in #HIVE - my only crypto holdings as of now, because I believed in this community.

Since then, I have been a long term believer and have increased my stake on this platform, whenever possible. Usually I express my feelings in the form of my blog, and most of my posts include what I do in daily life. It's as if I am writing my own souvenir for myself, for my family. A decade down the line, it will be a lovely experience to see them again. That's how I see this platform as a true representation of social media on a blockchain. However, the chain poses a lot bigger potential in terms of use cases, if we evolve to build some more use cases (apps) that would create some passion for people to write minus the monetary part.

Remember the @waivio platform created by @grampo and his team ? Recently he mentioned how rewards as high as $10.00 for sharing two photos of a restaurant dish weren't enough, despite having hundreds of participating restaurants.

So they are now exploring another open business model: @social.gifts with a focus on social shopping. I like the idea, and these are the kind of apps that will help us achieve the next level - reaching to masses. We don't need to spread the idea of rewards at all, instead we need to provide the usability that would create some passion for people to get involved, as rightly said in this post.

Microblogging in the form of Threads is really a great addition , and the mass on-boarding campaign by @leofinance is certainly going to take it to next level. However, we need more such apps, that would provoke people to participate on the chain in some form. I would like to share a personal idea here - a honest review app, that one can use to write a review about any product or service. I am sure, everyone has a story to share on the products or services they use. It just needs to be authentic with original content, in the form of evidences. If we can write an app for that and reward them, we will probably take away Amazon Reviews from Amazon.

We just need to be authentic and build more usable apps and I am sure, 2024 will be ours. And lastly I would request all our whales to show up their faces often and express in public forums, why they love this chain or build on this chain. Some are already doing, but the more the merrier. In fact, a collective forum would be lovely.

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