Father's Day in November is terrible in Finland. Mother's Day is in the spring and is likely to be warmish and sunny, after a long winter. November though, is cold, dark, rainy and perhaps if there is snow like today, slushy. It didn't help that we also hadn't had time to rake the autumn leaves earlier, and with freezing temperatures and more snow this week coming, we spent a few hours doing that.
Spring would be a better time. Or summer.
But, since it is just another day for the most part, it doesn't really matter much. There was a nice breakfast of some fruit and a croissant, with fresh coffee in the morning and we did go out for a meal in the early evening - pancakes. That is all very much appreciated. I also got a "jaw massage" as a gift.
Which might be a hint that I talk too much.
A long time ago I was actually told that the reason that people get sore jaw muscles, is because they don't talk enough. We "bite our tongue" rather than saying what is on our mind and the muscles in our jaw get tight, causing issues like tension headaches. I think there might be something to this theory.
The best Father's Day present would have been, HIVE going 50-100% today. That would have been pretty awesome. I am "patiently" waiting for the pump to come, but it doesn't seem to want to grant the gift. Whilst RUNE has gone about 400% in the last month or so, HIVE is trickling along, adding about 30% in the same time. It will happen of course (no guarantees), it might just take a bit longer.
HIVE is a laggard.
Which is interesting, considering it is one of the few tokens that actually has a working product in use daily by many people, is doing more than churning out tokens, and supports many projects. Which I think is part of the problem. Most of the other projects trade in hype, which is hard to do when there is something solid to see and interact with. When the community is only looking for Lambo! what is the long-term viability?
Good.
Because currently, the entire space is filled with promise-ware. Not many of these projects would hold up under business requirements, but they are enough to get people investing into them, who have already invested and made some money on other cryptos. It isn't that they are all useless, but many are and many will amount to zero, as there is no team who can actually turn what they have into something useful.
Running a successful global business is hard.
Just ask Splinterlands.
But, because this is still largely the wild west with stupid money involved, there can be a lot of "good ideas" that have no way to be built. Yet, they will still get investment. This is one of the challenges with an infant industry that still hasn't been well defined, because anyone can make claims and attract investment. And, this is even more of an issue in crypto, because faceless people can make claims and attract investment. As we have seen in the last year or two, there is a lot of shady shit going on in the background of the largest projects, even when they are meant to be somewhat legislated, so what happens in the smaller ones?
I don't know.
Does anyone?
This is part of the challenge with them not having to be part of the normal business systems, not having to have an annual report, or meet accounting guidelines at all. There is no practical way to do real due diligence on most of these projects, so it is largely just guess work and hoping that it will work out okay, or at least, it will pump and one can exit before it dumps.
I don't mind HIVE lagging in price, and I don't mind the slow growth. What I would like is a steady increase, even if slow, based on a growing userbase that sees the value of Hive. Because, that means that even in the pumps, people won't be dumping all they have, because they will still want to participate in the community. And are also likely to buy back in to have more stake.
I hope at some point, it will be difficult for the dumpers to get back in significantly, because price will hold up, because people won't want to sell.
Dreams.
For now though, I will rest my jaw from all this nonsense talk...
And bite my tongue.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
