Nice to see a little bit of interest in HIVE coming through the exchanges, however short or long lived it may be. It is of course all speculation, with almost 7 million volume on Bithumb Korea since it opened for trading a couple hours ago. That is around 26 million HIVE changing hands back and forth. While this is great, I am always in two minds as to how much affect market movements have on growing the community itself, as there are plenty of coins with a lot of volume but not much else happening around them. I find it strange that Hive gets so overlooked, considering that it has a lot of activity that isn't just tokens changing hands.
We are a few weeks away from the next Hardfork, which is scheduled for September the 28th and will clean up some of the blockchain code and hopefully, go off without a hitch. The Hardforks I have been witness to over the last 3+ years have generally been plagued with testing issues, with some having some very undesirable affects on the chain - if anyone remembers the introduction of Resource Credits and an oversight effectively shutting down the chain for a few days.
While not everyone here now was here then, it is good to understand that there are risks in any changes to the code and a tiny error can bring in some pretty dramatic results. The most important thing in my experience as an enduser is to not panic and instead have a laugh at it all. For those on Discord, unless you like drama, look for rooms and people that are not drama mongers who feed off the emotional disruption they can create.
At least from my perspective, very little good comes out of panicking, yet when people feel their investment is under threat and can't directly do anything to affect circumstances, they tend to cluster together and rile each other up into a frenzy. It is pretty useless - but makes the leaders of the drama feel important. Again from my experience, people that feel important by generating drama are not to be trusted in their perspectives or abilities - People who understand what is going on well, don't panic, nor cause panic - unless it is the panic that they benefit from - so they find manipulative ways to encourage it.
In some ways, they are like politicians who are incentivized to turn some percentage of the audience against others, so to play them off against each other while taking the spotlight attention in the middle. Whenever there are issues on the chain, there will be dormant wannabes who will spring into action to seize the opportunity to feed their attention-seeking hole to feel relevant. It is interesting to think that some people are only relevant when there is trouble afoot, but people feeling fear tend to cling to anything that supports their position or makes them feel safe.
These days, I think people are so addicted to their emotional reactions with so little control over their automatic responses, that people prefer to dive headlong into the drama cycle that feeds their feeling-eating animal. It is the way of the internet, where we gather around social movements of some kind or another so that we can feel part of a group and when that movement inevitably dies, there are several others to choose from. Consistency doesn't come into it.
Sometimes, it is better to just step away and do something else.
At any one time, there are multiple activities that we can do that can add value to our experience, either directly from the task itself or indirectly if the task is something that supports a greater position. For me at the moment, the choice is pretty simple as there is always something to do on the house and currently, there are multiple things. A lot of them aren't fun such as removing scrap material (which I am about to go do), but are necessary in order to move onto the next phase, the next pump, the greater high.
While we all love the peaks, the majority of our experience is defined by the foundation we build below. Foundation building might not be exciting, but if you want to see green, you have to plant and nurture the seeds.
Time to life some heavy things.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
