RE: So what!
Interesting to read this, as not being swayed by users I love moving to Hive to make me stop and think of other aspects of it. Basically by going to Hive you are now giving up your Steem keys to log into their blockchain (a fork of Steem?), except your keys must go through clear web sites from teams of people I do not know enough about and things are happening way too quickly to make an informed decision. So no hate on Hive, but so far it reminds me how there was a big push to use PAL tokens or something over Steem. Like there is just a lot of stuff that goes on that continues to use the Steem blockchain, but gives the impression that it is trying to get everyone off Steem. Not sure why new blockchains are not created for these events. A lot of users I truly enjoy checking their posts are still here, and there are a lot that are jumping ship and have done so already. If overtime they never come back maybe it will be time to jump ship, also would love to have more information on Justin or whomever it was from Tron that bought and seemed to aggravate a lot of users and why that occurred. In no rush, not into Steemit because the value of the coin, enjoyed seeing this post and reading these comments that shows things are not as cut and dry as some dire seeming posts I read.
There is definitely that trust issue you mention about keys, but, for me, there is not much at stake, so I said "wtf, let's try it and see how it goes". When I thought about it a bit more, I realized that the best course was to grasp that extra value given by HIVE and use it quickly before it vanishes.
The main reason I think HIVE is just hot air, is that it materialized from nothing; it exploits all the work & investment made for STEEM, doubling all the tokens held by STEEM users in one rushed move. Where does all that doubling value come from? I haven't got an crypto-economics degree, just my gut-feeling telling me that there is nothing to back this up.
As a matter of fact, I just saw that the value of HIVE was halved in 7 days, more or less. For me, it was expected.
I will say this: Neither Steem, nor Hive has anything to back the value expect maybe a community. I am not that much into making money from this anymore, at least not until the Danish tax-pigs can tell me what to do with it. So I am mostly here to post art. I guess Justin Sun will put some money into keeping the value of Steem up, so that is a good thing if you want to sell. But who knows what the future will bring. Maybe Akasha will be better?