I have been meditating on Crypto cards for some time now and the actual value they hold.

While they do offer an opportunity to spend Crypto for goods daily. Be it a cup of coffee or your weekly groceries. Paying your monthly bills or going out for a meal in the evening. Something feels nasty about it all to me. Something under the surface is being hidden, sheltered from the view of the population. While I do think those developing these cards have the best intention. They do open doors to possibilities. I look at this from the perspective of removing control over our finances and the enslavement to the financial institutions that we are all held to.

While many Crypto out there have a cost to using them in transaction charges. Hive does not. It does have a cost of needing Hive power. Basically anyone using hive as a payment system would need to hold a small sum of Hive to cover these transactions. This cost is non recurring though, unlike with Crypto cards. A monthly or yearly cost is involved.

There are also restrictions with Crypto cards as they develop to region and banking laws. Essentially the control over the cards is held by the banks. Financial institutions are acting as a middle man to transactions and will empower themselves further over our finances.

When I first began blogging over on the now centralised controlled platform I made a post under the name Brayias. (name change due to not saving Keys). In one of the first posts I made I touched on Financial institutions gaining control over the Crypto-verse and the vision it might have began with. removing the grip financial institutions hold over our lives. You can read that post Here. It appears to me this time has come about over the last year or so with the new Crypto-cards.

Hive itself has no cost to transactions. They are free and work from resource power. There is not a need to hold massive amounts of Hive to perform all the transactions we might have in the course of our daily live. Yet, Once we begin to use a Crypto-card, those hidden charges begin to appear. Supporting the same financial institutions that Crypto as a currency was said to be put out there to avoid.

The years of work put in by all those who ventured into the Cryptosphere is now beginning to be capitalised on by the financial institutions. We have done all the research for them and corrected many issues and improved on the viability of Crypto.

No one knows who Satoshi is and the code for the beginning of Crypto came when the crash of the housing market hit. Said to be a method of prevention from the financial institutions holding us captive to their ways. Could this code have been released by the financial institutions and now they are beginning to claim it back. (Just threw that in there to get the minds of conspiracy theorists going).

While the use of a Crypto debit card seems great. It does go against the grain of no transaction charges. In order for Hive to maintain its ability to keep with no charges. As a community on the Hive blockchain. We need to begin to create areas that Hive can be used to transact with.

Yes it would be a long project and it would be a minimal of 5 years before we could establish daily use in a single locality. After those 5 years of development, the Hive blockchain could be in a strong position to expand the use case and regions to which it can be used.

Hive on Crypto-cards may not be the best thing ever. It might just end up being the prison bars that hold it back along with all other Crypto in the long term.

I hold a firm belief that a need to create industry through investment of Hive in the world we live, outside of the digital-sphere is essential. Through doing so we back-door users to the Hive blockchain. They are not discouraged through talk of Crypto and blockchain. They are simply brought in by use of Hive as a currency. They ability to use it with no cost on their part. Removing ongoing bank charges for transaction or maintenance costs to a bank account. Removing the need for a bank account altogether.

We should be aiming toward a time when Hive will not be needed to be exchanged to FIAT of any kind. Working towards making Hive the main currency used globally.

If we had began a project like this 2 years ago when I first mentioned it. We would have coffee shops sprouting up now that use Hive as a primary currency. We would have people using Hive that do not blog or have any interest in blogging. People who do not play games to win Hive. People who hold no interest in blockchain technology or the Crypto world, would be using Hive to cover some of their financial needs. Creating a demand and physical world cases for the use of Hive.

In making these use cases ourselves and not relying on outsourced or secondary middle people to create value for Hive. By making these things happen ourselves, we will increase the demand and the value of Hive.

Can we come together and create an Altruistic entity on the Hive blockchain. One that holds the interests of the Hive blockchain primary and its future success.

Can we come together and when we see an obstacle, instead of saying that cannot work because of x y z. Look at the same situation and say okay to do that we would need to x y z. Solutions, methods and the ability to make this happen are there now. The reasons we do not undertake a project like this seems to be in control or the rewards are not personal and immediate to individuals.

Look to the bigger picture. Making Hive used in the daily lives of people benefits all who hold Hive. The demand and the value of the Crypto grow and all who hold it benefit.

Along with developing Apps and Dapps, games and blogging for the Hive blockchain. Lets begin to develop outside of the digital-sphere too. Lets begin to diversify the baskets we put our eggs into. Lets begin to look at a future 10 20 30 50 years down the road and what we can achieve in those time frames.