Lowering the HBD APR is one thing (the first thing that comes out of my non-crypto friends is PONZI) but then hammering the people who write posts as well... Is that not a bit of overkill?
I personally do not want our blockchain to be known as "write a post or two, get an upvote, share a photo, get an upvote and you get paid $100, Bob's your uncle".
So what is Hive ...? Am guessing not a place for content creators.
Rather it should be known as a platform that is technically marvelous, where you can freely develop any sort of app that you'd like on top of Hive - be it a massive game, a sidechain, or even a travel map.
And the games etc on Hive are technically marvellous?
I have been here 2 years next month, and people keep going on about mass adoption of Hive.
If the aim of Hive blockchain is to solely attract devs to develop apps on top of Hive then that is fantastic, but it sure as heck is not going to have the masses trying to knock on the door of Hive's sign-up process.
An informative post, and it is great that consensus (top 20) witnesses on Hive are taking the time through Hive posts and Discord servers to engage with Hive users.
We know we have comparatively no stake and therefore no say in what happens on Hive, so to be given the opportunity to voice our opinions is cool and what good governance should be about. Whether any notice is taken of course is a matter for another day.
Good luck with it all and kudos to you all for keeping Hive on the straight and narrow.
Hey there, thanks for the comment.
There have been various discussions about posting rewards over the years, some advocated for their removal altogether, some advocate for moving them into an alternative token later down the road. I completely agree with you in terms of onboarding and how tedious it is. Most of us are still trying to think what would be the best way to combat that. Unfortunately, most of the "free account" systems that were introduced ended up being abused in the end.
The end goal of my post would be trying to find the most optimal way to, while keeping HBD adoption, also increase the adoption of Hive and especially staked Hive. In the end, no one prefers a risky investment that returns less than a low risk investment that returns quite a bit monetarily.