I bet curators get more thanks than abuse fighters,...although, the .258hbd that hw's paid out to me did bring a hearty chuckle and a deserved smdh.
I'm not sure how one begets the other.
When rc's have value, just maintaining a presence on layer one will be costly in some measure, ergo, incentives will be to go to the 2nd layer where things are still 'free'.
We've tried top down control, perhaps it is time that the top let that control go to more people.
Not totally, I'm not calling for powerdowns and governance abdication, but they could start by taking their hands off the user attraction pool that has a well deserved reputation for being insular and cliquish.
Even reducing their iron grip to 1000mv would help.
20 accounts take 50% of the rewards and give them to their cliques.
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Day after day, year after year.
In perpetuity appears to be the plan.
Who plays a game where the lion's share of the spoils go to tiny fraction of the players?
We need another round trip to a dime, imo.
The power to price ratio is more likely to support distribution at a dime than at a dollar.
IF hive is to fulfill its promise of replacing fiat, it's gonna need more than a half dozen people calling the shots, and single digit thousands crabbing in the bucket.
Just the perception that this is the reality will be enough for folks to not pick up our flag and carry it.
Why would anybody trade the redshills for new crypto bosses?
Hive has to distribute broadly to succeed broadly, imo.
That has clearly been anything but the plan, at the top.
Control freaks gotta control.™
People are coming to crypto because they want to escape the bs of their fiat controllers, creating the same bs here isn't helping, iyam.
People feel powerless over fiat, when they find the same situation here, why would they go through the trouble of switching?
Is 7+ years, and millions of rejections, time enough to get a clue?
It doesn't look like it from my perspective.
Is there any game that this isn't the case?
Cryptos were supposed to be that ..but the tools dont change the mind of who is using the tools
Yes, in winner/loser situations, it's winner take all, but we are trying to be social here.
Trying to build a community of more than just brownnosers and brownnosed.
Distribution requires that the powerful cliques let some crumbs escape their grasp.
Hive won't succeed until distribution spreads it to more hands.
20 accounts taking 50% of the pool is not working.
IF satoshi had kept all the btc to himself it would have no value now.
Btc's value is in its distribution.
As long as hive is perceived to be unfair in its distribution nobody is going to play.
That should be clearly supported in the data to this point.
2+ million accounts, 4k daily posters.
Most of those still don't understand the math, or they would have left, too.
Imo.
This is very true.
What's the solution?
Perfection is not an option.
We can only do what we can do.
The only real solution I see is vsc and spk.network taking off.
Number go up assuages much anxiety.
As for things we can control, I think I have been pretty clear.
Let the user attraction pool go to users.
IF 'too many' are dumping, stop voting rewards to them.
Then, at the least, we can say that we are trying to attract new users and keep the ones we have rather than the fact being that we give as much as we can to those that already have design breaking amounts.
IF I remember right, which isn't always the case, the pool was supposed to be a faucet that people could access through proving they were real people with the intent to bootstrap a currency, and not a way for those with the most to maintain their percentage of the whole.
We've spent the last 7 years playing it the latter way.
I'd like to see something new tried rather than repeating the same thing and expecting a new result.
Will that be a panacea?
Definitely not immediately, but we have to start digging our way out of the hole that greed has put us into at some point, IF we expect to escape the rut we are in.
In time, the 'fact' will change from 'give it all to the top' to 'really trying to attract and keep users'.
Maybe, after we have done that for a while, new people that haven't already encountered our current reputation will only know the new one.
WoW , so so true