In all honesty I know for a fact that some investors don't like the 20 consensus witness number. In essence we are trusting our money with 20 unknown people, in fact it's actually less than that considering they could fork with less than that. If that consensus witness were changed to something larger, like say 100 or so, I know that would help but I have mentioned that several times and no one seems to bite. Apart from that HIVE needs to have a reason for someone to invest, right now there are not many. Park your money so that you can post and vote every day to slightly stay ahead of inflation? That doesn't appeal to many out there... we need passive ways to earn that well above the inflation rate to really attract people. And you need to market it once you have it.