Basically we always thought “proof of brain” or DPoS with social content and upvotes was really amazing but never felt it was managed properly. Then the CEO sold it to a maniac who did everything we asked him not to do, and tried to overrun the witnesses by fooling binance into thinking the chain was being attacked in order to use their stake and vote out all the witnesses.
Luckily before that had happened the witnesses had already made a fork just in case. That fork was Hive. I guess about 70-80% of the remaining community came here.
Battle tested! Hehe