The year is 2018. Smart Media Tokens, a new paradigm shift in online news and data markets, seem to be just over the horizon. Steemit users have minds running wild with new ideas for re-invigorating everything from small town newspapers to YouTube like media outlets.
Finally, finally, finally, there would be another way to monetize and, more importantly, assign value to content that was not dependent on disgusting and regrettable paradigm of commercials and advertising, which reduces all media to a hand-waving, attention-getting picture frame for companies and corporations to gain brain space real estate in human beings in order to hypnotize them (through non-stop repetition) into consumerist culture.
We were almost there. We were SO CLOSE. Dapps were in the ecosystem, people were meaningfully active, we had a great amount of talent devoting their time and effort to the blockchain.
Skip to now.
I have more faith in Hive then I had in Steemit even two years ago, but everything is still very much in the air. I, and I believe most users, still have no idea what's happening or to what degree it's happening, nor do we really know what the long term game plan is or where the Hive chain and dApps are really headed as a whole.
But the main, burgeoning, burning question I have is a simple one that I think many people have: Will there still be SMT's, or was this an idea completely owned and controlled by Steemit Inc?
At this point an "I dunno" type response with a detailed explanation would suffice. I've been holding my breath for nearly 3 years now for SMT's, and I need to know whether Hive is still dedicated to that ultimate, potentially world-changing, end game... or if Hive is just going to play around within the Hive ecosystem (worthy in its own right - the creation of that ecosystem and it's journey towards becoming truly decentralized are worth while).
There's one thing that I'm very certain of: an inflationary coin, much like Steem or Hive, is the future. I just want to know whether or not that coin is Hive. It's certainly not Steem anymore, and Hive is another step in the right direction, but it's time for the community to start thinking what the future looks like.
I assume the devs, at least, have. I just wish they'd share that with the rest of us.
