I believe we are here where we are because of the "small difference" which is written on those 2 screenshots you shared... HIVE's total supply is double that of STEEM... We have managed to inflate our token at lightspeed...

If I were a potential investor, why would I buy a token that has 20% inflation, and I can earn 11-12% in the best case by staking (and curating) it? Just to speculate on the future price? It's not 2016 anymore, and we have millions of tokens for speculating...

On the other hand, I wouldn't neglect the value of the chain itself... It is useful, and there have been many improvements since our hard fork time... and it's much superior to the legacy chain, for sure...

What we fucked up is tokenomics, but it looks like that, for some reason, doesn't bother those with the big(gest) stake...

Interesting discussion... Thanks for creating this post... Will share it with others... ;)

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