Hive is one of the best performers for the past year or so and I'm not pointing solely to its price, although it is doing pretty decent for that matter as well. Some of us have probably had $10 expectations for HIVE by the end of 2021, but that didn't happened...

Without a doubt, dollar valuation is highly important in valuing a crypto project, but that's not definitory when investing or getting involved in a certain blockchain project.

So, what are Hive's most important assets?

Well, imo the two most important assets are the users and developers working their ass to deliver shit for the users to use. If one would have asked me this question about a year ago I'd said that community and marketing would be the most important assets of Hive.

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Nowadays we can see that Hive has gained decent value against the dollar and BTC as well even without much marketing. @lordbutterfly is doing a great job for this matter and I'm still a proponent of marketing, but...

I tend to agree @taskmaster4450 more and more on his claim that *development is the best marketing*. That doesn't mean we should totally overlook marketing, though. In this regard we should look at Leofinance. What has pushed Leofinance to become the no.1 community on Hive?

User base and development. Without these two, we would probably still have GEMS as the no.1 community on Hive. 

Leofinance has a habit to delay things, that's not a secret anymore, but on the other hand it's been building the habit of delivering as well. And from what I remember from an AMA recently, Khal(@khaleelkazi) was saying something about the team of devs getting bigger lately.

I don't know what age this guy is and what his background is, but he rocks it... You know I'm a Leofinance fanatic and I owe much of my great experience on Hive to Khal. We don't have to overlook user base, though.

Without a solid user base, your project and any project, no matter what we're talking about is shit. Hive's user base is increasing, according to stats, and that underlines its value as a crypto project. 

So, this being an #askleo post, what do you think are Hive's most important assets? It doesn't have to be the two ones I've mentioned, I might be missing on something, you know...

*Thanks for attention,*
*Adrian*

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