But it showed me once again how difficult it is to explain Hive to someone in a few hours.
Really?
Hive is a pure community project. There is no company or foundation that created or owns Hive. Every person can contribute to the development of Hive with their ideas and even has a right to be paid by the Hive community for doing so.
No person has to buy Hive or HBD or pay for an account!
But it does not work without work. Because.
Every Hive user can be rewarded just by creating useful and beautiful content by the Hive community. It does take a certain amount of personal work and time to be successful (The proof of brain).
Sounds simple
But then... The different dapps, HP, RC, curation, 2nd layer token, games, #introduceyourself , keychain (wich he questioned for example as "Not your keys"), HBD (and the big question "where comes the money from), ...