@magnacarta's thread

The way around the zero-sum incentive problem is very simple, but tricky to get right: onboard users and businesses that use Hive but which get paid from OUTSIDE Hive.

If new users see Hive as a data storage blockchain primarily, they will buy Hive and drive up the price, benefiting everyone and offsetting the extra cost to node operators for storing their content. ...

Suppose that Hive blockchain can be used for data storage (which is true). Is it optimized for certain forms of data, so that some forms of data are better than others? Could Hive blockchain be used to create something like, for example, Baseball-Reference.com or Ballotpedia? I think the answer is "yes," but proof of concept needs to be demonstrated for something heavy on number crunching and tabular data representation.

If Hive can be used for developing games, surely it could be used to handle astronomically large data sets for presentation, processing, and consumption.