... I'd love to hear about your experiences.
We seemed to have shared the same excitement when first coming to STEEM. The PoS technology, offering fast and free transactions, was exciting to one who had watched PoW networks grind to a crawl through greater mass adoption.
The community began to slowly win me over and after lurking on the chain for a year the community finally drew me from my shell to begin posting to the chain. This had the effect of genuinely opening me up to sharing previously private activities like my non-professional music activities.
Things seemed to be going so well.... and then the fork arrived.
My position was strongly against the fork. This opinion holds to this day. There seems little need of going into details at this time; yet back then it was an eye opener to the intrinsic governance failures in PoS systems.
Still wanting to believe in PoS technology both my STEEM and HIVE funds were powered down and transferred into ETH with the hope that that community would do PoS right with their own upcoming fork which would shift ETH from PoW to PoS governance.
By the time the realization hit me that Wall St. would be doing to ETH what Mr. Sun planned to do with STEEM, ETH had made its fork and its value had done a 10x.
By this time one could call me a Maximalist and there was no attachment to my 7+ ETH. My ETH were sold off, coincidentally at their latest peak price last summer of $5080CAD and those funds used to buy a 36' blue water vessel which was bought in Toronto, ON. She was then sailed over the end of summer and into early fall through Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence Seaway , down the St. Lawrence River, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Prince Edward Island, through the Northumberland Strait to Nova Scotia's Canso Canal where weather has me laid over as of this writing with only 22 more hours out of Halifax and the end of this passage; the manifestation in RL of my STEEM/HIVE experience in the digital world.
Things have come full circle as the adventure of my boat purchase and passage has been documented here on the HIVE blockchain.
HIVE is what it is at this point to me. It does not seem the time or place to propose how the future of HIVE is seen by me, yet it does have a future in my mind as a utility token. Hopefully that future shall have me in it.