HIVE's value is quite unrelated to its current market price (which I agree makes no sense).
The point of powering up is to have more influence and significance in the only properly decentralised content sharing platform.
The value of the HIVE token is what it allows you to do inside the ecosystem, which is constantly growing and getting better.
I think of my HIVE investment as like a whole lot of seeds I've planted.
Not worth much now but in the future I will own a whole forest.
Right now it seems were stagnating more than we are growing.
You also need to consider this seed to never give you fruits a plenty. Many people will say that Steem/Hive was one of the worst coins to invest in crypto.
I'm still here, I still think there is hope, but it's hard to stay positive when you bet on the slowest horse in the race, constantly.
I'm right there with you. I have never left and never given up, but I'm also pretty much subconsciously pessimistic about it and wondering if I've made a huge mistake.
It sucks to think I'd be better off investing-wise if I'd kept all of the Steem I had and just sold all of the Hive I was airdropped for BTC or something.
I do think there is a buzz starting to form around it, though, and if there was ever a good time for people to start paying attention, it would be now. I'm pretty excited to see what happens in the next handful of months, and I have a good feeling. I will not be surprised at all if it just sinks lower, though. Hive has been a heartbreaker thus far.
I think I've been "subconsciously pessimistic" (I like this term) since the bubble burst of 2018. Ever since it has been a struggle for me to get back on the horse.
The HIVE horse you bet on is barely even running in the races that are now on (races 1 & 2).
There are 3 phases of the blockchain revolution:
HIVE is the front runner in race 3 which even the vast majority of punters on races 1 & 2 don't even know is on the program!
It might seem to be a slow horse in earlier races, but it simply is competing in a different race with a longer time horizon.
You don't need to convince me, I'm here for almost 5 years, I embraced the longer time horizon. From time to time I can get cranky, hence the posts like this. The words you said need to be said outside our own community.