I hope the price continues to go up because I think the system really suffers from a lower priced token. With the inflation rate slowly moving down, the coin has to move up in value in order to compensate that loss in payouts or people wont be incentived to move to the service. Ill probably write an article on it soon, but I think hive is in a much better position than when steem started, mostly because now we dont have as many OGs dumping coins and keeping the price lower. Anyway, great article !