Hey Atma! :)
I do indeed and that is one reason why I had invested on $OXEN originally. Random, anonymous Service Nodes. Just stake some coin into one and you don't really know whom the money is going to. Recently, they are deciding to change their coin agi thoug and remove some of the private features, so I am rethinking that coin now. I think some gov agents must have pressured them (those guys mostly work together in an office), just a vibe I get.
Anyway, a massive change like that for Hive just isn't feasible at the moment, it would literally mean thousands of lines of new code and would affect many other variables on the chain. Hive is like the antithesis of vote anonymity. We are a transparency chain, not a privacy chain.
Right, understood. The governance consensus/voting mechanism could be done on a separate chain, but as you say that's too massive for Hive at the moment. It would need to be tried and tested elsewhere first. And there are some setting up in that way already.
i'm aware of the Oxen issues, also having a few.