The tokens are only worth around 20 cents. But the returns for people who have them staked are way higher than Hive.

New accounts - I've tried that quite a few times over the past 5 1/2 years. In fact I have more than 10 accounts. But several of them have been nuked. Any account with a rep under about 60 can just get nailed - I had one taken down from 45 to 7 for one comment! (2.5 million HP of downvotes!)

I am a black listed enemy of the Hive-cabal and will never earn any author payouts in Hive!