Wow! 9 years on Hive! Nice going, still here, still creating, still investing... That tells us something man.

Many disappeared, using the downward Hive-price graph as a slide to get out of here., good luck to them, they weren't up to the task or were uninterested in building a solid, engaged, warm community.

Or they had their eyes on the wrong prize!

Winning does not always appear dressed as success, sometimes it takes the 'churn' of the wrong people out of the ecosystem and for the right ones to be a greater percentage of the community for magnificent things to happen.

Eventually, something incredibly useful to a far wider number of non Hivers will be built on our blockchain, they may well come from far and wide, who knows? Why couldn't Hive Town play a sizable role in that?

Competitions are cool, who doesn't like to battle others? Who doesn't like to let their competitive streak run wild for a little spell?

However, there is something far bigger at play here! A community, from a community, within a community, built on the back of forming a stronger, more cohesive, more together community.

Would anybody like to place a bet on whether I am going to say community again???

There have been many spells we could have raced out of the Hive commu... ... Ecosystem. Reasons were plenty, but we saw something bigger.

I hope we never lose that larger vision. 🎃🦇🦴💀