I've been saying for quite some time now that there needed to be a major shake up to trash bin some of these crap coins that are out there. If there is no real use case, it shouldn't really exist. As I was reading through your post I started thinking about Hive and also about Linux and how there are some similarities there. Linux wasn't really know outside a specific group of people back in the day. These days it is more well known, but still probably not the most widely used. All kinds of distros have popped up by enterprising developers just like the communities we have here on Hive. People who know what they are talking about wouldn't hesitate to affirm the power and utility of Linux. Just like Hive.
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It might not be known but it is what runs most of the servers in the world. I think LINUX accounts for more than 80% of them.
So yeah it is a sensible analogy. Hive just keeps building so that it has the infrastructure in place to serve what is needed in the future.
That is the major difference. No hype or pump.
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It is now, but it wasn't always, so yeah, that just cements my analogy even more :)
No it wasnt always.
Another piece of your analogy. Think back of the LINUX history, how may directions did it go in. Like Hive, it was going a thousand different ways at one time.
Yet, in the end, that created an even more robust system as more solutions were rolled out.
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For sure! You could even go as far as to point out that Linux was born from Unix, but I don't think I would compare STEEM to Unix in any way shape or form :)