I realize that this is a by-product of your work alongside Lightning on Bitcoin, but a space for Bitcoin Maximalists should be seen as infertile ground for discussing or raising awareness of Hive.

To convince a Bitcoin Maximalist of the value of Hive, you first have to go to great effort to de-convert them out of their existing belief set that comes with the modern Bitcoin maxi package. Bitcoin maximalism comes with a whole host of dogmatic ideas that help to "protect" them from the scary prospect of other cryptos ("shitcoins") possibly having value or a genuine point.

It's a similar thing with crypto skeptics. I generally find crypto skeptics these days get more stuff right about crypto than crypto people do, but they're also so convinced that all crypto are garbage scams that they're not open to the possibility of any actually having a substantive case. A bitcoin maximalist is just one coin away from a no-coiner.

In the meantime there are millions of people around the world who could be open to learning about Hive, the ideas behind it, and not only that but for whom there is potential to make a difference personally in their real life, beyond just making a speculative bet on something getting adopted or the token price going up for whatever reason (which in practice is all crypto is to most people).