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In the first days of Hive Punk's release, my wife claimed that I was more interested in Punks than children. I may have gotten carried away at first, but then I started to take care of children too 😊

I can't claim to understand art, but I love watching Hive Punks. I even like Hive Punks more than the original CryptoPunks. It's because Hive Punks have a light blue background instead of gray. In the picture below, there are zombie samples from Hive, Ethereum, and Solana punks, you can see the difference. On the other hand, it is nice for Hive punks to have some species such as mummy, robot, skeleton, which are not present in CryptoPunks.


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Once NFTs can be freely transferred between blockchains, it might be a good idea to set up a museum with sampğles from dozens of Punk collections. Punks that will be exhibited in this museum, which will be established in one of the metaverses, would show that the imitations do not devalue the originals, on the contrary, they glorify them. It may even be considered to showcase early NFTs in a museum built on Hive, as there are already so many valuable NFTs on the Hive blockchain.

Punks certainly have something that sparks the imagination. The mummy, skeleton, and robot Hive Punks appeared in my mind, replacing the two-dimensional characters of the 80s horror&adventure games.

Of course, besides the artistic side of punks, there is also an investment dimension. My subsequent NFT purchase attempts have shown that the success I had with my Hive Punk investment was a coincidence. I think it is extremely important who manages the NFT collection to be purchased. So, I should make my next purchases from projects run by people with similar characteristics to @themarkymark 😊

My failed NFT purchase attempts have strengthened me mentally, as Nietzsche taught us. My research has shown that the items I should pay attention to when purchasing NFT are the leader, community, utility, historic value, and artistic value.

The reason why the Hive Punks were successful was because of the successful leadership, as well as the use of the strength of the Hive community. The fact that Hive Punks can be used as profile photos on the Hive blockchain has also increased their visibility. Also, of course, Ethereum Punks have the distinction of being the first successful example of generative NFTs. Although the Hive punks are a clone project, I believe that it has a high archaeological value. By 2030, I think that beyond successful projects like Hive Punks, even NFTs, which are not so important now, will have value arising from being minted at a relatively early period.

Hive Punk-like two-dimensional NFTs are used as profile pictures. Three-dimensional NFTs, on the other hand, are designed for use in environments such as games or metaverses. It would be nice to see three-dimensional versions of the Punks.

The NFT project I imagine as a potential investor could be in the form of a DAO. All revenues starting from the minting phase are collected by the DAO and expenditures are made through the DAO. One of the shareholders of the DAO may be the leader of the initiative, its spokesperson. DAO constantly creates added value for the ecosystem with the new projects it develops. Because happiness grows when shared.

The value of Hive Punks in 2030 will depend on both the state of the NFT market and how Hive will flourish. Of course, improvements related to Hive Punks will also contribute to the increase in value. On the other hand, Hive Punks can gain value very quickly if bridges are developed through which NFTs can be transferred securely between blockchains. If I could access Punks created on all blockchains from a single environment, I could have a punk collection, excluding crypto punks of Ethereum. Right now I have to settle for Hive Punks and POB Punks.

Hive is on its way to becoming a center of attraction in the play-to-earn field with its games that are still available and will be released in 2022. I couldn't match the speed of new tokens produced on the Hive Engine, and new pools are added every week on Beeswap. I believe that we underestimated the importance of the SPK Network. I will say that even the projects we know only show that by the end of 2022 Hive will become a much more important blockchain. I can't even imagine how big this network can grow by 2030.

Crypto still has the number of users of the internet in 1998, when we calculate it with the number of internet users, we can predict that there will be 1,090,000,000 crypto users in 2030. Assuming that the number of users of Hive will increase in parallel with the crypto market, with a conservative estimate, we will reach the conclusion that Hive will reach 8 times more users in 2030. However, in this period, there will be no change in the number of Hive Punks, which is 10,000.

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By the way, for the sake of transparency, I would like to state that I still have 82 Hive Punks, some of which are on the sales list. In fact, I don't want to say goodbye to even one of my Hive Punks. I make sales to diversify my crypto assets.

**BONUS**
My favorite site for NFT analytics: https://nonfungible.com/
My favorite Youtube channel about NFTs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPC2iE2Yuj20m5Dimn-vVBg

Thank you for reading.