Hi @rondon
Nice long article, I smiled when you said you could write more, I know the feeling, but suspect my long articles don’t get read, so from time to time I break up the big ones into 3 small ones, if there are enough separate areas.... Anyway in regard to priorities; I can think of two; utility and ease of use.
First one is the adoption of a tiered Graphic user interface similar to the one created by Travelfeed.io, it features both an a easy sign up for crypto naive types and a regular Sign up for “crypto native”. The crypto native is just regular with master password and 8 keys. But the crypto naive sign up or easy is a clone of Instagram and Facebook, that buries the complexity of Cryptocurrency under self chosen name and password. It allows people to post, curate and learn. It’s a simplification geared towards encouraging adoption of the platform by people who want to blog first and build a community before investing time into learning the platform. They still earn under the hood and their crypto will be waiting for them when their ready to learn more.
Second is more basic and mainstream utility. While Steem had many Dapps in the top 100 on the State if the DApps, the price of Steem steadily declined. The dApps, the technology, the developer interest was there, but the price languished. Once again the utility thing needs to be first I think, but directed towards people who are barely crypto literate. I think efforts to get Hive listed on a DAPP that lets people use the crypto to buy stuff now would bring more adoption through utility. Right now you can pay Cryptofills with three crypto’s Bitcoin, Litecoin and dash, they convert your crypto to dollars, or euros. Then you get gift cards or top up credits. These gift cards are for hundreds of retailers and allow you to buy stuff from Amazon, Sony PlayStation, recharge your cell phone credits or buy video Agnes or game accessories. That type of utility is key to increasing adoption as a store of value must also have a mechanism for buying stuff people use everyday. I think a campaign to get the coin listed on one of these services followed by a campaign to get people using the service would really lead to increased use of the coin and increased value.
I am not a developer, so I don’t know how to create a simpler GUI, but I would be willing to work on the listing project. I just don’t know if I can speak for Hive, I really only speak for myself and what I think will help.
Now I have written a comment, that may be to long. But hopefully you will have time to read it and advise me where to take my ideas. I am thinking of writing a proposal for these ideas.