Thank you for the reply.
Neither being whale nor dev, but someone who reads a lot and tries to have a little scratch beneath the surface, I don't always understand the inner workings or ideology behind the projects I see which is what makes your well-written and insightful reply very much appreciated. I wish projects would be more concerned with updating the users of the chain with their progress and that Hive itself had a centralised news outlet.
It would be nice if everyone using the chain in whatever capacity could pull in the same direction from time to time but at least I'd hope that the one thing everyone could agree on is the development of a true parallel financial economy.
One last thing I did notice was that some of the shops were charging some seriously inflated prices in HBD if compared to their local currency. Is this by design and something you monitor or are some of the shops and users gaming the system.
For example, this post.
https://ecency.com/hive-106130/@preciouz-01/zzfhsfle
The local price of these two items would be less than 3000Naira which is less than $2 ! They paid $11.31.
I hour ago, same supermarket, one loaf and a few sachets of creamer, $14.33
https://ecency.com/hive-106130/@patsteve/snlpolay
Two hours ago, same user, different supermarket. A few more packets of 3in1 and some cheap noodles, $14.667
https://ecency.com/hive-106130/@patsteve/cmlotiyn
Thanks once again, best wishes with everything :-)