It's too late to upvote this post but anyway I'll just comment.

>Fuck, it's taken me four years to grasp the basic principles of trading, never mind liquidity pools and smart contracts. 

Ha ha, I feel the same. You won't believe that I just recently discovered my HE wallet. New users find HP, HBD already hard to understand what more these new tokens. With so many things, so many choices, our brains tend to just shut down.

>I made that mistake after the Steem/Hive fork and if I've learned nothing else I've at least learned that you never know which token will make it big, REGARDLESS OF HOW LOUD AND SEDUCTIVE THE CHEERLEADERS ARE. 

I admit that I wish I didn't power down my Steemit account. I guess I got influenced by the collective and just totally lost my critical thinking there but oh well. Maybe I can make another Steemit account for my business.

I think we'll forever be a niche-based community due to the elitism of some communities here. It's gonna be hard to promote Hive platform (apart from the UI is still not user friendly ugh and there are so many things now to understand - HE tokens) because we'll gonna have to explain the unfair rewards and downvoting issue. I remember there used to be a crypto influencer here who got kicked out sadly because she posts what she likes - talking about free speech! So yeah, let's just forget about mass adoption and just focus on our "tribes" lol. It seems to be working anyway.