It takes time to understand what HIVE is all about. I have been on HIVE for 2.5 years before realizing its potential. Only recently I started to actively building my HIVE power. Before that I was more focused on Splinterlands so was swapping HIVE for SPS tokens.
One thing that is concerning is that HIVE has very little presence in mainstream media like YouTube and even Google. Even in the crypto space which itself isn't really mainstream HIVE is really overlooked. Most of the info on HIVE is 2-3 years old.
Also HIVE isn't present on any of the major centralized US exchanges like Coinbase. I think it would do wonders to HIVE visibility if it was listed on Coinbase.
Regardless of my doubts I am focusing on building my stake and not just through posting...
Yeah it's a real shame really that Hive isn't on coinbase, especially with their "rewards" they give out in certain coins to people for learning about random blockchain facts. It would've been amazing to have coinbase as an account creator itself to allow people to earn some crypto through them before "investing".
Oh well, most exchanges just care about $ and hive doesn't do too well in terms of daily volume on Binance and others to get their attention. If it doesn't get their attention they'll require money up front for listings or other things I reckon.
I'm hoping decentralized exchanges become more popular in the future compared to centralized ones, but for majority of people "holding your own keys" is still quite scary and they'd rather rely on customer service and an institution to hold their value so they use exchanges.