This point is important for those looking to take advantage of the small userbase we have right now and the potential of the ecosystem. This is also why I tell people to keep some stake, anything they may feel comfortable with, even if they really need the money it'd be unwise to sell everything.

There's tons of examples out there of people losing their bitcoin holdings they mined for fun in the early days, bought a couple pizzas with or used it to get some drugs off the dark web but never looked more into what it was. Similarly with ETH which was sitting at sub $1 for ages while I was telling friends it might be worth looking into.

Hive is more forgiving than that in a way, as long as you've remained a good actor there'll be people around here to support you, but that support shouldn't be counted on forever or taken for granted. Who knows what people will come up with for usecases of Hive, as long as the community finds it accepting it doesn't always have to be straight-up content or comments that gets rewarded and who knows what kind of lucrative delegation programs people will come up with that'll have many delegate most of their HP (not to mention the need for RC) away for some favorable returns leaving your friends with no voting power to vote you up with. Point being, the stake you're earning now won't be as easily earned in the future. If you only care about $ then you might get lucky and the price might moon 10x+ and it only requires 10% (minus deflation and powered up hive metrics) of the voting mana you're getting now to get you the same rewards in HBD later but this is always going to leave you at risk of never having your own stake and becoming financially independent.

It'll probably be a very bad move to never hold any stake, even if you hate hive and think it's never going to go anywhere I can tell you even such people hold some stake just in case that I know of. It's kind of the same risk management people should be considering with their fiat savings right now seeing what's occurring with banks, etc. I'd hate to be the person to come back here 10 years from now seeing there being 1000x more users competing for the limited reward pool and all your friends being gone while there's nothing left for you aside from proof you were one of the first million users that some may give you an upvote on your returning post for but then quickly forgetting you so they can upvote the newest tiktok video of their favorite influencer.

Now of course I'm quite a Hive maxi and think it'll live forever and keep evolving and scaling, but looking at it from a rational perspective I don't think it's crazy to assume that there's a ton of upside to it compared to downside as it can't get much worse pricewise, we've been there. On top of it all there's always going to be a few new weirdos who join or are invited by other weirdos who may not even care about selling it off but keep it on their accounts and grow alongside inflation to increase their influence on the rewardpool for the fun of it. As long as we can reward our blockproducers and there's at least 20 of them either for profit, speculation or altruisticly continue running those servers, hive will be here.