Hive is something where everyone wins.
Since the ideological reason to join a community like Hive is decentralization, so everyone in the community wins. The only thing that you need is how productive you are to make the community great and how the community value your effort.
An author creates a content and earns HIVE, HBD, the community decides how much worth that content should be. Everyone is having certain Hive Power and using that power they curate the content and accordingly they earn curation reward while the authors earn author reward. The algorithm of the payout is in the ratio of 50/50.
You want to contribute in a different way to the community? You are most welcome. What are the other roles then? Developers, Marketing expert, Witnesses, etc.
So you want to be a witness, then run a node, urge the community members to vote and try to gain support, if you are sufficiently voted, then you may gain a spot in top 21 witnesses and can then become consensus witness, you will have a bigger role and responsibility.
You are a developer and want to develop some awesome tools so that the user expereince will get better. No problem, create a proposal and list it in Hive DAO. Again it will be voted by the community members and if you have higher rank, then you have better chance of being funded through Hive DAO.
You are a marketing expert, then create a proposal on that and tell how you can market HIVE in a better way which will be good overall for Hive community. Then it will be voted in a similar way in Hive DAO to get funded.
Hive DAO can fund you for anything which is considered good for Hive. And all that depends on the community voting to get it funded from DAO. DAO stands for decentralized Autonomous Organization.
So as discussed above, anyone can make the most from Hive as long as his intent is good for the community to add value in whatever skills & capacity he can and that should go down well in the community. Because in all the use-cases it the community that decides who should be rewarded or who should be funded. Decentralization being the core of hive community, anyone can win here.
HIVE frontends:
https://hive.blog (https://hive.blog/)
https://peakd.com (https://peakd.com/)
https://3speak.online (https://3speak.online/)
For more info on HIVE: Hive - The Blockchain for Web 3.0 (https://hive.io/)
Join the HIVE Quora Space: The Hive (https://www.quora.com/q/otycmrjbbhahuqae)
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