Hive Dollars are awesome. People talk about the killer apps of crypto, and it's usually the fad of the year. Before NFT's it was Defi, before DeFi it was ICO's.
The killer app of crypto has not changed, it has always been money. There is vastly more market potential for a functional, decentralized stablecoin than basically anything else you could think of. Stablecoins are huge and dwarf every other crypto use case - even when they're completely centralized and violate the basic principles of crypto.
Steem has had a decentralized stablecoin for almost 5 years. It has only been partially able to fulfill its function - much of the time it successfully stays roughly $1, and 99.9% of the time it's been within an order of magnitude of the peg, but a very substantial amount of the time it has been too far from $1 to be considered a stablecoin. Guess what, it's harder to do things in a decentralized way, but once you've worked it out - it's better.
HBD has 0 fees forever, fast transactions and is truly decentralized. There is no realistic possibility of your HBD being seized, or the collateral disappearing in the night. This can't be said about the many centralized stablecoins out there.
Since the hard fork to Hive, HBD has gotten better. The interest rate (yield) for holding has returned. The DAO with @hbdstabilizer is working towards an ever tighter peg, with more native peg instruments planned. With the DAO stabilizing the token, any excess demand for Hive Dollars can be funneled into value for Hive. The DAO can also potentially reduce Hive inflation by purchasing Hive Dollars at $0.95 - preventing the release of $1 of hive per token with the contract. Both sides are likely to be deflationary in effect.
Currently if you Google search "Hive Dollars", this is what you may find:
These results are better than how they've been in the past, but you're not really learning much about what the token is or what it is for.
The first or second result should be a page that explains what Hive Dollars are and why they're so great. Yes I know, be the change you want to see in the world. For now I just wanted to get this thought out there, we should stop neglecting the gold veins we've built our village on top of.