We definitely *have* come a long way!

I can't help but think that the occasionally negative undertones I sometimes see come from people who think of Hive as being a *FIVE* year old project, rather than a *ONE* year old project. If I understand the infrastructure correctly, the only thing that's five years old is *some of the posts.*

Building takes time! Of course, Hive does fall under the greater umbrella of the Cryptosphere and we can't entirely escape the broader short-term mindset with it's eternal *"When Moon?"* questing. As you've heard me say before, solid projects sometimes just aren't as *"sexy"* as a shiny White Paper and vaporware... *sad,* but also true...

I'm excited for the plans to stabilize HBD, and believe we *DO* need two tokens, one of them being a stablecoin... *IF* we are ever to come up with some version of peer-to-peer commerce here. Nobody wants to try to do commerce in an environment where a loaf of bread was $2 yesterday, $3.50 today, and will be $1.50 tomorrow. 

Splinterlands was one of the very first projects I sincerely *cheered* for... because it offered a genuine *bridge* to the outside world; the *only* way (at the time) someone could (indirectly) buy into ~~Steem~~ Hive with their debit card... *AND* the fact that the game *itself* had the inherent potential to become an online equivalent of MTG, which still has 35 *million* active players... and like all *"good things"* has been going since 1993. 

There's that long term thing, again!

I think our *communities* may well lead the way forward... following their own paths *in the style of* LeoFinance. 

My *"Sleeper"* community is Natural Medicine which has a very dedicated and passionate core group... they just need a serious developer/technical person(s). They represent a huge *(Non-technical)* niche market that's already used to being *"alternative"* in approach so inherently an off-blockchain niche that's more open to a new approach. 

Sorry about the *"dissertation,"* but there IS a lot of good happening on Hive!

=^..^=

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