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RE: Is hive dying , not the price but HIVE
Perhaps Hive is transforming, rather than dying.
This place was built almost entirely on the notion of "get rewarded for content/activity." Because the money motivation outshines the actual doing things, Hive tend to shrink and grow with price trends. We've seen it before: Average daily users shoots up whenever the price of Hive shoots up; declines when the price declines.
Now we're sitting at or near all-time lows, so it figures those still here are less driven by rewards and more driven simply by participation. But there are not very many of them... in the hundreds, or maybe in the low thousands. in a sense, the silver lining of the price dump might be the "loss" of many cash grabbers.
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I agree that price cycles have always influenced participation on Hive. That pattern is hard to dispute. When price rises, activity follows. When it falls, the crowd thins out.
Where I think the concern still stands is what replaces that activity when the price pressure is gone.
Transformation only works if something new is actually emerging. Right now, participation may be purer, but it is also narrower. Fewer users, fewer experiments, fewer outsiders discovering the chain. That is not inherently bad, but it does change what “success” looks like.
If the silver lining is losing cash grab behavior, the tradeoff is losing visibility, momentum, and risk taking builders. A system can be quieter and healthier, but it still needs pathways for growth that are not tied solely to price or rewards.
So maybe Hive is transforming. The open question is whether it is transforming into a smaller, tighter core or into something that can eventually expand again without repeating the same incentive traps.
That distinction matters.