— VerifyYourBrain

Man I am Jealous of you being able to attend #hivefest and appreciate your candid thoughts on your take aways.

Having been here a while, I think about these things too. When I joined in 2017, I figured the trajectory of traction and token value would be far greater than it is now by 2024. Then life, Justin Sun and FOMO set in.

What you reminded me of in this post is what I have come to know as a business owner. This is not a sprint, but a marathon. All we have to do is focus on outlasting the competition by focusing on what we do best and letting them go away. 70% seems like a big number but we are well on our way to outlasting enough of the others to prove the value of this community. The community, with all its people, is going to present a good number of challenges but we have shown the pattern of getting through them. The benefits and value of a global, consistently-expanding network of invested individuals will add up like the challenges and become a beacon in the attention economy phase of the internet.

Enough preachy. I have added you as a witness.

Man I am Jealous of you being able to attend #hivefest and appreciate your candid thoughts on your take aways.

After 8 years on the chain, it was great to finally be able to be there in person. I can only recommend the experience :-).

The benefits and value of a global, consistently-expanding network of invested individuals will add up like the challenges and become a beacon in the attention economy phase of the internet.

That's very well said. What makes us hivians different is that we are invested in the chain. Not only financially speaking but also emotionally I believe. I don't care what people are doing on other chains, but I care about what happens on hive. Even if Hive isn't growing as fast as we would like, this identification with the platform is worth a lot and we only need to open the way to other people and let them build the same link with hive. In my opinion, it's a matter of critical mass until hive can really expand quickly. So until then we go on doing what we like here ;-)

I have added you as a witness.

Thanks a lot. It's very much appreciated :-)