Oh, there are far better technologies out there, that's why I moved it all to $XMR which can't be tracked and traced like $BTC or $ETH, it's faster, and I can use it to get everything I need. That is truly opting out of the system. Bitcoin is basically a banker and government coin at this point.
HIVE is more like ETH in that it is a network utility toklen. You stake it to give you resource credits in the network. That's really all it's meant to do. HBD is meant to be the 'currency' of the platform. That's why you get paid 50% in staked Hive and 50% in liquid HBD. You can't really compare Hive to Bitcoin, it's like comparing gold to oil. Same with trying to compare BTC to ETH.