Ah yes, the eternal idiocy of "let's lower the rate." Paired with the additional idiocy of "let's tweak the rewards pool structure to make the price of Hive increase."

Let's not.

I'm not saying it's the same thing, but going back to my IT years (I was NOT a developer) whenever you put developers and money in the same room, really stupid shit has a tendency to happen.

The frustrating thing about Hive (and its predecessor) has always been the substantial faction who operate in a fairy-tale vacuum where:

1. The fundamentals of human psychology and behavior don't apply "because we're decentralized and on the blockchain."
2. The belief that the token is the "product" supersedes actually having an actual product/plan.
3. If what you're doing is "awesome" enough, you don't need to tell anyone about it, the world will simply "know" by pure magical intuition.

A little off-topic, the other day I found myself looking at the CMC/CoingGecko pages of quite a few top-50 chains/tokens. Know what's interesting? How many of of them have a regular stream of news releases in the "chat" column... no such thing from Hive. Does Hive even have an official liaison with the crypto media? Has anyone even claimed our pages?

Oh... wait. I seem to remember the last person trying to run that through the venerable Hive Fund pretty much got "voted off the island," and is now an EX-user.

Sometimes I hate decentralization... because there are aspects of centralization that actually work really well.

Sorry, your post put me in a bit of a ranty mood...

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