Happy Monday!
I have been thinking about HIVE a lot lately. If you look at my other blog posts that is pretty obvious. One thing I am hoping people will accept is I have some key personal characteristics that make me as an individual different than most people who identify with Crypto. I am sensitive, I like building long-term relationships with interesting people, and I am always trying to better myself to learn from my mistakes.
I talk about loving HIVE a lot which is weird for most people in Crypto who have developed thick skin and have trained themselves not to feel. But I am not going to conform to the Crypto norm; I am going to be be myself and when that is hard for other people I do my best to tell them I am sorry.
The main reason I love HIVE is because HIVE to me is not a cryptocurrency; HIVE is only defined as a cryptocurrency due to the lack of a better term. HIVE is an asset with a blockchain where a user communicates with people all over the world.
I do not want to get into the weeds as to why HIVE is an asset vs a security. The concise reason is HIVE clearly fails the Howey Test in my opinion. But that is a different conversation and is not even relevant for how we live our lives on HIVE.
I would like to expand on what I believe HIVE is and why it is so confusing.
If HIVE was one process it would be very obvious. A process has a logical beginning point and a logical end point. Drawing an original picture is a good example. You start with an idea and you end with a final piece of art.
But HIVE is not 1 "thing." HIVE is a lot of "things," to such an extreme it is overwhelming if you try to follow it. This is because HIVE is a conglomeration of nonlinear processes.
Because an ecosystem is a part of HIVE, that forces all processes on HIVE to be nonlinear. Once a process starts, that process is baked into the ecosystem forever. Even if someone tries to turn off that process, the consequences of that action flow through HIVE forever. Even if HIVE tries to rollback the chain, that is then a new process which has other downstream effects outside of that one action. HIVE will feel a bad process forever and will feel a good process forever. We cannot "fix" anything on HIVE. We can only change things or add new things which is inherently risky.
There is no way to change HIVE without having downstream consequences forever. This is not bad in my opinion, just a level of complexity I believe most people do not appreciate.
Usually the point to having a process is to create order. A process should have a logical beginning point and a logical end point. However, when we add a new process to HIVE it makes things more complicated.
This is why when HIVE changes 1 thing or adds something new, there are always unintended consequences. I believe perfect solutions are impossible on HIVE.
I kept this one short and will be pivoting away from emotional posts and will focus on being "productive" in a way I enjoy.
If you want me to expand on any of these ideas please let me know in the comments and I will get back to you a soon as I reasonably can. I am also open to change my mind if you have a good argument for why I am wrong.
Once again, happy Monday!
Cheers,
Hurt - The Potato Dragon on HIVE (rebrand in process) 😉
