RE: Make Hive the wordpress of crypto. Monetized communities.

This is actually something we don't need to do, and it's one of the best parts about how Hive works,
In Splinterlands, we don't expect or require any of our players to have to buy HIVE. Instead we buy the HIVE and delegate it to them as necessary.

You say this but I have invested thousands of #hive into splinterlands through purchases. 😂

This has the effect of topping up the splinterlands account to enable gameplay but it is what I meant by organic investment. People buying hive for use case. Or buying it to tip a content creators on a certain app or just to power up and have a better vote.

I agree with your statement of the app powering the accounts but if we had 1m bloggers a portion of those would certainly buy from the markets for more voting power, exposure and profitability of curation.That and to own a piece of hive for investment purposes and ownership of the system.

I pay netflix every month to use their system and to power more content creation by the team. The only difference being that that it is rent instead of ownership imo as they can cancel your account at any time or change your services. With hive if you buy in you own your account and part of the eco-system. With facebook you effectively create data center tokens by using it but cannot sell them. Instead you create for facebook to sell and profit through ads.

That is why I would love to see ads empowered for communities and blogs as creators would post to communities with the best curation and voting power. People would power up to curate their community and attract content creators, in turn earning larger portion of the advertising rewards and powering those up to increase the positive cycle and attract more creators with a larger vote.

External money would be buying hive from the markets instead of relying on the existing community to keep the price up and the few popular apps like yourselves that are earning from external sources. But this takes a long time and a good team to create an external demand for your products. In advertising terms we already have the product which is content and eyeballs, we just don't have the infrastructure to capitalize on that at the moment.

The best marketing tool that hive could have right now is a higher token price. I guarantee that with $2 hive we would have a lot more people operating on the system and choosing it ahead of alternative platforms. Crypto social media is basically an arms race where we have surrendered the lead to competitors and will continue to lose ground over time without a business model to suit what we have. With more users comes more ad revenue, with more ad revenue will come more users. It's all about having a positive cycle instead of the reverse which we saw on steem as the price dropped in 2018 and users left in droves.