What Ethereum doesn't mention is that one also needs a fair amount of money and a "centralized crypto exchange" account in order to buy ETH. Indeed, you can't interact with Ethereum or any other similar blockchain unless you begin by acquiring that blockchain's coin in order to be able to pay transaction fees.
Once you enter Ethereum's world, step carefully and stay aware that you are in world of illusions, a world where things are often not what they appear to be, like in this slide where the 104,5 "ETH" are actually worthless "test ETH".
What one needs to keep in mind when interacting with Ethereum and similar blockchains is that "the game" is about making users pay transaction fees. This is the main source of income of those who offer you the functionalities of these blockchains.
This is unlike Bitcoin, where transaction fees represent a small percentage of miners' income (at least for the time being)
I have written a detailed post several years ago pointing out the many flaws in Ethereum's design. Yet one has to give it to Ethereum: it had brilliant marketing that spawned a plethora of new blockchains whose main objective is to be the "Ethereum killer"
Unlike most other blockchains, Hive (and it's ancestor, steem) have a different design goal and belong to a distinct family.
Contrasting the (relatively slight) differences between Hive and steem serves to shed light on the importance of getting the economic mechanism design right. With almost identical technology, small differences in the economic parameters can put the two ecosystems on completely divergent success paths.
"Delegation" (here illustrated for steem but working in a similar way on Hive) is an extremely powerful functionality of these blockchains.
Delegation allows the Hive community to work as a basic market economy where capital owners allocate their capital to "labour" and retrieve a part of the generated economic return. This makes Hive's return sustainable, because they are backed by actual economic activity (people spending time on tasks that compete and induce other people to spend time).
Interacting with Hive does not necessarily require money (as in Ethereum's case), but it might require some trust - a friend, or downloading and installing and app, etc.
Hive Keychain has gradually evolved into a very professional wallet application
Conclusion
Hive's design goal, software architecture and economic mechanism make it stand out. It offers sensible solutions to practical issues that are holding back adoption for other blockchain systems.
