I keep trying to entice people on to HIVE and have realized that they will only come when they see big $$$ numbers. That means the token price needs to raise, and frankly, it's falling down little by little against the other crypto's.
Why is it so unpopular and unappealing to investors? The return is fantastic compared to the stock-market for little work.
Our inflation is so different from other cryptos, those either have large pre-mines or everything has had to been bought. Where as here we have so many providing content, etc, and living off of it or have found ways to earn it easily and are not valuing it the same way as others but trading it for something else. Also new name, etc. Dunno, but wouldn't be surprised if Hive lagged behind a bit during the next bull run but that's not the most important thing. What's important is that when and if the next bull run starts we're ready to accept the masses and stand out for our scalability whereas others who may have jumpstarted their pumps and attention won't be able to keep up with it.
Hive, where you gotta work to get the best returns and most of that work is social. Doesn't look like a good deal to many tbh.
I was meaning for curation, it may be unethical to use an auto-voter and wait for the rewards to come in but one can't deny it's a great passive earner.