Another day, Another Dollar (Keychain Proposal)

When I logged in this AM I have been notified that there is another new Proposal for Hive DHF. I don't know, maybe it is Tax Season, and people need to pay bills. This particular Proposal is recent Keychain Proposal (no, I won't be providing a link), and it is asking us (the stakeholders) for $540/day, everyday, which amount to $197,100 for an year for the life of the proposal. I first want to make it clear that I use Hive Keychain almost daily. I love the tool. It is simple and effective and I have been using it for a long time. I also personally like stoodkev, the person behind the tool and the owner of the proposal. So I have no bitterness to the tool, person or the ask on the proposal. Yet...........

I will not be voting

Also, I will be requesting other stakeholders to consider not voting for it. Here are my reasons:

We simply don't have the money

There is no development needed for the Keychain tool, not now

If keychain goes to maintenance mode, it can be done for nearly free, Stoodkev himself said this publicly

While I do believe development is good for most flagship tools for the chain, if we don't have money we can't pay

Due to low prices and high inflation, Hive blockchain stopped giving away HBD as post rewards some times back (this is an automatic process). That is the obvious indication that we are spending

If there is one plot you like to look at from Dalz's post I linked above, it should be the image above. It shows the projected hive inflation vs. the actual realized inflation. You can see, in 2024 and 2025 we were already majorly off the rail. We were outpacing our projected inflation by nearly 4 percentage points. 2026 is looking like it is going to be a disaster! Our real inflation this year could be nearly 20% vs. our expected inflation which was projected to be 6%.

I don't know about you, but looking at this plot, the only thing I can speculate that we as a chain is giving out way more money than we are bringing in. This is a certain path to bankruptcy.

So, at this point I suggest we cut all spending. All DHF hbd are spending. They are all sold for cash to run the grocery shopping for the devs and associates. I say, we were already on food stamps in 2025, and now in 2026 we have officially ran out of money.