That is all true and do not disagree at all.
Ease of use certainly is something that is a problem as well as the distribution. HIVE is not something on the top of most people's mind (few even know about it). However, if we can keep expanding, things can change. Bitcoin was not so well known early on either.
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i was just addressing the marketplace idea. If you watched jarive's video he did with a new user and what she managed to pick up after the registration you would for sure see how ease of use has improved. i waited 3 weeks for an account and had no info about anything, except using a pretty bad search on steemit to find posts that explain something.
ease of use is for sure improving. just wanted to make a point about the marketplace idea (that i like). For people that have a lot of crypto, maybe not that hard to buy stuff with hive, but for "normies" not that easy. in my situation i need to pay 4 different transaction fees to get from fiat to hive, not going to buy with hive at the moment for sure.
i even event for a crazy rout of buying splinterlands cards with paypal to sell them for hive so i could buy hive for few $ at the time. then i caught myself not selling the cards so i abandoned that not so great idea (well i got few legendary cards, so maybe it was not a disaster)