The price of hive is significantly inflated by the lack of liquidity. It would be wise to make sure liquidity is as important as staking so the network doesn't become centralized.
The more of your hive changing hands on a regular basis, the better it will be for hive in the long run. The markets don't seem to realistic reflect the on chain issues are they are realized by the share holders in real time. I think this is due to centralization as well as stake vested interest in curation API.
The double edge sword of exclusivity cuts twice, and you will not like the 2nd cut which is fast approaching if issues that have existed since Steemit are not mediated.
You can just hope the new users don't know about the flaws, I see so much echo chamber promotion for hive from low IQ people who don't understand the inherent flaws of representative based vested interest, I will have to start calling it a ponzi scheme.
The second you take a step outside of the box and look at hive, with the centralized aspects, it qualifies as a ponzi scheme.
The witness model needs to be nuked for stake based block signing, which could easily be hashed in browsers if the user base grows. Without that growth, not sure what you're doing here, so assuming growth is part of this platforms end game, we would want to be objectively approaching the dilemma of taking the witnesses off mommies nipple to reduce the cost of operating this blockchain for everyone, not just the ponzi scheme-ish centralized aspects of hive.
Having paid rolls on chain here has not produced much fruit, there's maybe 3 people who come to mind that I won't name due to my dissent for their roles as witnesses. We can all blog here sure and argue about votes, but the witnesses are not a nessisary part and don't provide any added security over the POS systems they tried to one up when they opted in for DPOS consensus mechanisms.
