Splinterlands showed us it could be done before they fumbled the bag.
They really pumped the price for everybody last time around.

Hm yes but was it Splinterlands or their unsustainable broken Play-To-Earn mechanics that pumped the price of a Hive token to the exact level it costs to mint an account? It should be heavily noted that Splinterlands charged new accounts exactly $10 to prevent rampant botting. How high did Hive get? Around $3.33. How much does it cost to mint a new Hive account? 3 Hive. The math is devilishly suspect on this one and I've never verbalized it until now. That pump could have easily been caused by scammers during their scam. All speculation of course.