I share your frustration with some people who want to see the rewards system removed.
I will be plain. I am not interested in Hive turning into another fucking useless blockchain. There are shitcoins everywhere and sure, they're hot! hot! hot! for investors with a thirst for risk.
I am here because I believe this blockchain is an exception. I used to be a Bitcoin maximalist, because I gazed upon the vast field of various tokens and coins and whitepapers and I saw that it was shit. So there are very, very few cryptocurrencies I follow. I can count them on one hand. It seems every whitepaper I see is an exercise in extreme shoehorning. They take a problem, or sometimes invent one, and think... "how can I apply these crypto buzzwords believably enough to convince some sad, stupid, rich motherfucker to invest in my project?"
This thing is not like that. It's not Yet Another Decentralised Ledger or worse, a tokenised whitepaper. It's not just people throwing worthless tokens at each other and circlejerking over charts and dreaming about some far-off use case which will materialise someday when some unsolvable problem is solved. Sure there is some crypto hype; there's going to be. But this project is, by far, the most successful implementation of a blockchain that actually does something.
I am damn opposed to turning it into some sort of boring fucking moon rocket. It's worth more than that to me.
Whoever wants that, can take their mainstream investors, and kindly shove them up their ass.
Like I said to Meesterboom. If you want a truck, buy a truck. Don't buy a car and convert it into a truck... because what the fuck?
I know all crypto is mainly hype and broken promises. A few at the top or in the the know make the money and everyone else gets screwed. The people doing that are quite literally killing the industry and giving people reasons to think it's all a scam. Justin and Steem is a perfect example. Steem under the influence of those folks selling votes is another example of squandered potential. It's almost embarrassing at times to be associated with this madness because of this bad reputation and seemingly only gets worse. Can we please just do this one right? That's not too much to ask and so much is ready for the next level.
I'm glad there are people like you (you're not alone) in this world. There are plenty more who will help insert whatever it takes up those asses just to prove a point that this is better than all that junk out there. Just look how bad Justin looks right now for trying to fuck it up. Would you want to be that guy? Apparently someone here does...
Thanks for stopping in. You're with @ocd-witness still? You've had my witness vote for a long time. I really appreciate the honesty and passion.