Everyone has their needs, ways and plans, I've seen a lot of people take out their HP and put into exchanges for day to day trading, they did make some good gains too. Some may have even cashed out, for their needs, bills or whatever, but who knows what they have planned for the long run.
But I would say it's good to have a decent amount of HP staked, because I see a future for Hive, a future where the price of Hive will hold more stability and reach higher highs. For example, even last year and the year before Hive held well around the $10 cent range, but this year it's holding on to the 40/50 cent range like it means it, wants it. And next year or on the next bull and bear run I see it holding up higher.
Hive is quite a hidden gem and a lot of people underestimate it, and that's a mistake. The problem is that most of these people and users are thinking short-term, instead of seeing the long-term benefits.
People will generally do what's right for them and I don't have a problem with people doing so, freedom of choice and all.
But that same freedom of choice causes people to address those who may be seen to be doing the wrong thing, farming for rewards, with frequent and rubbish content.
Freedom of choice goes both ways.
I'm hoping Hive does major things and am stacking it up for that reason. I've built up about 160,000 tokens and have it all staked so have the ability to spread some curation around and make a difference to a few others which I do with general curation and in other ways. If it goes to $10 I'll be happy, but I don't rely on it for my life and so whatever happens, my life will go on.
What I find funny is when people try to indicate that I always had a large stake. I started with zero and built it through content creation, I didn't invest it in the blockchain initially. They whinge and moan about not having much and denigrate me for having a larger stake and therefore some voting (up and down) power. Dumb fuckers.
It surely does, no arguments there.
I see it the same way, not putting any number on it just yet, just doing my thing and investing whenever I can, however I can. Even if Hive hits a huge number, I'll still be around with whatever stake I have in the game. The curation mechanics here surely is interesting, and it's a step forward, towards WEB3. So I'm guessing that I'll be around for quite a while, because I'm all in when it comes to WEB3 and its development. At this point I absolutely detest WEB2 and where it's all headed.
They'd rather complain and waste their time and energy, instead of coming up with ideas and ways that will help them grow on the blockchain. They usually have a short-term "milking" tendency, looking for ways to plagiarize and milk their way forward. It's actually quite common, even if there isn't any reward in the end, people will still plagiarize and like to show that have ownership over other people's stuff and content lol. I've seen it first hand in the many sectors of WEB2, pathetic people with no originality, nor the desire to be creative.