I agree, there is great potential for Hive environment, but it won't succeed thanx to the price of BTC or Korean traders (although it does make many things much easier if price of BTC remains high and Hive remains popular with traders) but of own efforts of various Hive communities.

Yup... I see HIVE (healthy) going up ONLY if we have some successful dapp/game as Splinterlands, for example... Maybe Moon Kart, Holozing, or something completely different... we will see...

I'm not so optimistic on the blogging side that can push the HIVE up, but it is needed for the platform to survive...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Always great to see how others are thinking :)