Some things you don't mention in your post I'd wanna shed some light on, while money has come in through HBD to stay in HBD, even ignoring the fact that some of it may have come from selling hive directly, is it enough to justify 20%? 20% is long term unsustainable, we've seen the charts of compound interest and the long term I'm talking about is in 10+ years, around when Hive is going to start dropping to 0.5% yearly emission.

While there's definitely been an increase in HBD buying from outsiders and being introduced to the rest of the ecosystem, I thought it wasn't enough in my opinion to justify 20% and we've been signaling 15% for almost a year now since there was close to no marketing done and the only random time there was some noise about it on web2 was by some random guy calling it a scam and the community putting him on a pedestal.

Why not settle for a lower % for longer instead?

Either way, I liked some of the discussions in the spaces last night and I'd be open to some kind of bond/lockup feature to at least mimic HP in some kind of way if you wanna take advantage of this high APR, else HP is just not enticing enough and has too many disadvantages compared to HBD imo.