Hi Everyone,
I’ve made it to nine years on Hive. Every year takes me on a slightly different journey. My ninth year has been my least active on my 
For my
For my tenth year on Hive, I will be devoting more time to my economics content, which has been mostly neglected for the past three years. I have a lot of content to catch up on considering the state of most Western economies and the crazy events of the past three years.
The price of Hive is incredibly low. It is below 5 cents and is barely above the all-time low, which seems to be frequently reset this year. The altcoins did not have a bull run this cycle. Hive performed worse than many other coins. I believe this has to do with many of the projects on Hive that require funding. This causes more selling pressure. The selling pressure clearly outweighed any buying pressure that these projects generated.
I do not think there is anything wrong with the projects, but they do not appear to be drawing in a sufficient number of new users. The falling price is causing users to leave Hive. This causes engagement for the remaining users to fall, which causes even more users to leave, and this creates a spiral effect.
There seems little interest from investors either. Hive is well outside the top 500 coins in terms of market cap. Therefore, it has minimal visibility on crypto websites such as CoinGecko. Hive is also only on a few crypto exchanges, making it more difficult to find and buy. Hive’s biggest problem is too few people know about it. This affects both users and investors.
Two years ago, a documentary titled ‘Freechain’ was completed. So far, it has very little exposure. This could change soon. I believe there is some sort of deal with Al Jazeera. When or if it is aired by them, Hive could receive considerably more attention. The story of Hive is quite an inspiring one, which could draw investors in.
For Hive to succeed, the focus needs to be on the DApps rather than the blockchain. The DApps are what users engage with; they attract users and keep them coming back. This has yet to happen in a significant way. The Splinterlands game DApp had some success. More DApps with similar levels of success are needed if Hive is going to grow in terms of users and investors.
There is also the problem of other mainstream social media platforms capturing the market. Lack of free speech on these platforms was identified as a huge problem. The Hive social media DApps were and are viable solutions to this problem. However, perceptions changed when Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X. X became the perceived platform of free speech for ‘right-wing’ users. These were arguably the most censored users prior to the takeover. Fewer people searched for free speech social platforms because of this perception. Most people do not realise how manipulated content on X actually is. Topic for another day.
The Hive DApps for social media do not seem like a particularly important alternative to mainstream media. X even allows users to earn money as well, and it is quite likely, considering the price of Hive, that users will earn more money on X than they do on the Hive DApps.
My longer-form content is still better suited to Hive than X or any of these other centralised platforms. Therefore, I’m still going to remain here. At best, I will use them to share what I have posted here.
Even though the price of Hive is incredibly low, the ecosystem is still going. We still have plenty of witnesses keeping the blockchain going even though their earnings are low. Many of the DApps are also still running and well-maintained. I feel it can endure even tougher times if it needs to, thus giving us hope that times will improve.
I am optimistic about my next year on Hive. I will post mostly on PeakD, which remains my favourite blogging platform. I will still use Actifit for reports and updates. I also want to get back to using 3Speak, which is a good video DApp. I will be more focused on my economics content, but I will still run Sapien Loop contests. The books need a bigger push now that the trilogy is complete.
I am writing a trilogy of books titled Sapien Loop. The first in the series is Sapien Loop: End of an Era and the second is Sapien Loop: Frozen in Time. I published both of these books as ebooks on Amazon, and I have posted completed chapters to my
In 2025, I wrote a short stories book about some of the characters and their adventures. This book is now available on Amazon. I have also posted these stories to my
This story is based on the fictional planet Sapia and its sole country, Sapey. Sapey is portrayed as a form of utopia for all its citizens. No poverty. No war. Almost no crime. Opportunities for all.
This was enough for most citizens, but not all. In one of the small regions, some of the citizens had become discontent. They felt something important was missing in their lives. Their discontent did not go unnoticed. Some of the Sapey elite wanted to weaponise this discontent to gain more power. This created more chaos than they anticipated. This led to further widespread social unrest.
On top of the chaos, ambition and greed provoked another enemy. This enemy was on a mission to settle both new and old scores.
This story is based six years after the original story. The Downs Region is still suffering from a serious health crisis caused by the contaminated water. The main characters are desperately trying to find a cure for the illness that has been caused by the water.
One of the main characters has discovered frozen humanoids in hidden chambers. It appears they have been frozen for a long time. These chambers connect to a vast network of tunnels. While exploring the tunnels, one of the frozen humanoids disappears. It appears he has been stolen.
The story takes a step back in time to tell the story of the frozen humanoids. How and why were they frozen? This part of the story also explains the fall of ancient Sapey and the birth of the Sapiens. Can those from the past be able to coexist with those from the present?
