All altcoins grow while they accumulate users, and then steadily decline in value as everyone realises the use case and value proposition don't exist. Out of 20,000 altcoins, there has been zero that have long term grown in Bitcoin echange value.

Meanwhile, my 100 sat tip today will be worth a dollar, with 100% certainty, in 4 years, I just have to wait.

The other tradeoff is you have to not offend the whales on Hive by questioning anything at all that promotes retail filling their bags. I was involved in the initial mother chain, Steem, before it had a hostile takeover and turned into JustinSunCoin along with his other scam Tron.

I've been involved in the building of 6 different altcoins in the last 7 years. Every single one was a scam, ponzi, and a cult. But you won't see it until the rug is pulled out from under you, and even then it could take years before you figure it out.

I should just reinforce the point about micropayments. Lightning is the main protocol now that enables such small payments at an economic fee rate. And it does it in seconds, worst case.

The lack of need for immutability of this data because it is stored on chain, but without any identifying information is also pretty freakin amazing. Every payment you make on Hive is public. On Lightning, it's between you and who you pay, nobody else can find out, and once the HTLC expires it's gone. No need to store it.

I know what kind of resources are required to run a Hive node. It is prohibitively expensive. There is only about 100 copies, even though it is pretty much censorship resistant, that's not a lot of targets to shut down. And your access via the web is gone if every web app is taken down, you can keep a copy of it on your own, if you can afford the ever exploding amount of data on chain.

In that respect, you'd be better off using IPFS and pinata.