I like the fact that Hive seems to be holding up well on such low volume... normally, it just tends to drift down and down after a high volume spike.
One of the things I found very interesting was the way Hive was already rising significantly on low volume before the spike to the new ATH. In fact, Hive had already moved gradually from 70-80 cents to about $1.30 BEFORE anything very active happened.
Could be there are just a lot of use cases requiring Hive, giving people fewer reasons to sell and more reasons to buy. With SPK and LeoFinance's "Project Blank" around the corner, it wouldn't surprise me to see another run fueled not by FUD, but by a liquidity squeeze.
Yes, there is a clear demand, much more than a year ago.