I actually think the price retracing could be good long-term. We acquired a lot of new members over the last couple weeks. Thereās a lot of buzz (get it) around us, a lot of new people with new ideas about how things should be done, opinions about the things that already are done, and so on. The community is showing a lot of stress and friction right now.
As long as the price was still on an upward trajectory, more people were going to keep showing up. People that would try to game systems that werenāt set up to handle large numbers of people intentionally gaming them. People that would have even more wildly different ideas about what 1hive is. The community would be in danger of having its culture diluted too much too quickly, and it might never find its way together again.
With the price dipping now, that inward pressure is alleviated somewhat. We have time for things to shake out, to consolidate. Some people who just came for the farming might leave, or those just looking for a quick bag pump. Those who stay help form a new culture, recognizable as derived from the old, but stronger, more diverse, yet still cohesive, resilient. Itās a natural process that requires time and effort from everyone involved, but it canāt happen while more dilution is still being poured in.
After that process, the culture is ready for dilution again. If you pour that same amount of people into the community again, it wonāt be nearly as disruptive the next time; there is just more culture now, itās even more cohesive. The new members would assimilate much more rapidly this time, because there is just more community for them to dissolve into.
I think I went through four or five different metaphors there, but I hope itās understandable regardless.