I wanted to upvote your comment but I am low on mana. I’ve been curating some comments on my gaming post and it got a little out of hand on my upvoting 🤣

Perhaps there is some other factor I am missing. Can you think of anything else that prevents control of Hive from being purchased by someone or group with deeper pockets than extant management?

I think HIVE being a fork of Steem is the reason. The control premium of HIVE is infinite from an investment perspective. There is no amount of HIVE someone can buy to get control of the “ecosystem” in my opinion.