Ahh. Perhaps I wasn't clear. At current rates I have HBD in savings which gives me about $10 HBD monthly. I can (a) give out that money to the community. (b) I can convert to HIVE or GLD and give that to the community or (c) I can buy hive, lease about 5600HP for a month and upvote for the community. If I give the money away its gone. If I use the money to get a lease I get some for next month and users get upvotes for the month. Win in the long term. You are correct, unless I get a cheap lease I'm unlikely to get my HP back...but I'm curious what % I do get back :)

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.