With guests coming in a half hour to celebrate the arrival of 2025, I just wanted to finish 2024 with a thank you to the Hive community and all the people who have taken the time and made the effort to participate on Hive well, and make it a great place to spend a good portion of my time. I like being on Hive, even though sometimes it can be frustrating in many ways, but there are at least a number of people here that make it worth it, even if I don't always agree with them.
That is part of the fun.
However, there is also a lot of crap I don't like, which is the scam, the spam and the people who are constantly complaining about Hive, or Hive users, yet continually post in one way or another. Just go over to Blurt and leave Hive alone.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
But overall, lets go with a positive view, where despite all of the challenges and lack of eyes on Hive, undervaluing for what it is, it will soon be nine years where a crypto community has been spending their time in a crypto community, that isn't owned by a corporation, and is controlled in a decentralised manner. The technology has improved, the usecases have continued to expand, and there is a lot of potential in the future that should bring more eyes and hopefully much more value to Hive, the tokens, and Hive participants who power up at least some and build their stake in the community.
Price-wise, the coming months might be a little volatile to begin with, and then maybe it will go sideways for a bit, but I think that it is going to be a pretty good year for crypto, if the past is anything to go by - which it often is not. Still, those who are willing to put in the time and effort in the right way to invest themselves into Hive or crypto in general, should do okay.
At the end of January I will be entering my eighth year on Hive, and while some might think it is a lot of time and effort wasted, I reckon I have both built some monetary potential, as well as learned a hell of a lot about many aspects of the world I wouldn't have otherwise. I think being on Hive has opened me up to topics and thoughts that have made my life better in most ways, even though uncomfortable in others. As they say, ignorance is bliss, and I think I am a little less ignorant than I was earlier.
Though, I am still a bit of a dreamer.
And I am dreaming that next year will be better than the one prior and perhaps next year will be the time I am finally right.
Happy New Year!
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
Happy New Year dude! I look forward to another year of lively conversation! Thanks for all the effort you put in to this community.
And thank you for spending so much time on the other side of the conversation :)
It's crazy an a little scary to think we have been around here this long doing our thing on HIVE. It's just a reminder of how quickly time passes by. I hope your 2025 is a year of new growth and experiences for you. Clean slate as they say!
And this is a reminder of why starting now, is better than waiting for later, because later is always later than we think it will be.
Happy New Year my friend, it is nice to read and comment on your posts. Hope 2025 will be better for all of us.
Let's try to make it happen :)
Nice post, Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
I wish you and your family and friends a happy new year.
It makes me happy that you write posts with different perspectives on Hive. Just as you learn something, people learn something from you here too.
This is what I hope happens :)
Happy New Year to you! Volatility and all, it will be a good year. At the very least, it will be interesting. May your dreams come true in the new year and may you
finallybe right about it all lolHappy New year Tamara! Let's hope it is great for all of us and we can avoid the majority of the drama in the world.
Happy New Year! I love Hive too, it allows me to chat with people I would never meet offline.
It is pretty cool to be able to connect with people from everywhere, and build longterm relationships.
Happy 2025. Maybe it will be a good one?
Hope so! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year.
Reading and interacting with you and many others has definitely been one of the good things about being in Hive.
Would be nice to have a "network view" of all the interactions, locations and demographics :)
I remember several years ago I used a free app which created a twitter map of your network connections and post history. it would be great to have something similar here in Hive.
Got to be optimistic hehe! Happy New Year!