hive has never been on the same schedule as bitcoin. It’s been correlated at times and not correlated at other times. We often pump after bitcoin or randomly during sideways markets. I believe hive has much less speculation than other tokens though because we aren’t on many exchanges and because we have a strong community that lives and dies by hive.
I don’t think we will see crazy pumps like the steem days unless we get listed more places but I think slow and steady growth is garunteed as long as projects like Leo and 3speak and ecency keep at it. I see the outreach improving dramatically over the last year. Check @alexrourke’s new tweet or look at @anomadsoul or @kenechukwu97 or many others rockin it in spaces. This is far more useful than just getting everyone to spam posts with the #hive tag. Also promoting hive projects rather hive as a whole is far more useful