Back in 2017 when I had first started posting regularly, I very happy about having been told about the old chain. I wanted to share my fortune with my friends. But I got blank stares and objections that made zero sense like receiving money for creative work was a bad thing. Some would never get past the question of "where the money came from". They probably thought it was a Ponzi scheme, although that shouldn't have discouraged anyone from posting because no one needs to invest a single penny to be successful as a content creator Hive.
I gave up because I realized that for some utterly incomprehensible reason I wasn't going to be successful at onboarding people. I had a circle of friends that ran blogs on Blogspot and we used to write about interesting topics and shoot shit on each other's comment sections. Why the hell shouldn't we have done it on the old chain and now on Hive where the chain has valuable tokens it generates and that the community (partly ourselves) sends us through upvotes? There is no end to bitching when prices go up or when people fail to get a raise that they think they deserved. But suddenly they don't want free money. What the actual fuck? I will never understand the mentality these normos operate under.
Fast forward to the year 2022 and it has become notable that many more people have become somewhat more aware of the problems of Web 2.0 and corporate-owned social media platforms. Even mainstream people on Twitter are looking for alternatives as the very recent popularity surge of Mastodon shows. I'm convinced, however, that the masses need to exhaust all inferior alternatives first. My intuition is that Hive is at least five years from starting to fulfill its potential.
The problem for people is that they don't know what money is, they just understand currency usage in the most practical way. You can't explain magic internet money to people without an understanding of the general concept of money and how it evolved over the course of history.
We'll see about the timeline, a lot of things can happen in five years. The Three Speak Network is doing some impressive work, looking forward to seeing that taking off.
Exactly. Only a cursory look at the range of monetary instruments in the traditional financial system should tell someone that money is far from simple.
hit them with this, and if they understand it - they're on the level to start to talk about crypto currency.