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I don't see the core function of Hive being blogging.
That was just the easiest way to lower the bar of development and value creation to everyone.

I think there is a far greater chance that RCs become worth so much that blogging on Hive isn't profitable anymore except for the OG core bloggers.

IMO Hive's core function will be gaming.
Maybe some DeFi for good measure.

"blogging on Hive isn't profitable anymore..."
says the one who typically gets >20$ net per post mostly by autovoters :)

Gaming? Although most of the JSON transactions currently come from Splinterlands, gaming I would not see as core, rather social web portal, tribes (plus their 2nd layer tokens), Defi and micro-transactions

Hive is just a blockchain with data on it.
There is no core function.
We have to ask ourselves: what kind of data has the highest value vs bandwidth.
Once bandwidth runs out we have to make priorities.

We only need to put chatter on the blockchain if we are worried about that message being censored.
Otherwise we can move a lot of this stuff off-chain when the time comes.

Sure, but you are talking about a far future, currently we have no bandwidth issues, and with the current rate of adoption and lack of a killer App, it will take decades until bandwidth problems :)

Ha, you're funny.
I guarantee we have bandwidth problems by the end of the year.
Hive nodes run on razorblade rails.

Oh, was not aware about this. I thought we would run at 2% of max capacity or so.

Plenty of nodes have crashed at 1% theoretical capacity.
Still haven't tested the RC system.

Hive needs to expand to smart contracts working with Main token ( Hive). Like a fork from BSC with main Token Hive.