Can you explain why it's a loss for you to lease HIVE for curation purposes?

Seems to me like HIVE is undervalued right now, because there is such a strong community, as well as the support of several exchanges, and endorsements from the decentralized community [Vitalik] - There's a lot of good things happening here.

I'd guess that your suggestion here, and the suggestion of slobberchops on some other post recently is that powering up, and then curating and engaging builds a community layer of active content contributors -- who then also contribute to the ecosystem by voting, and doing outreach to others.

That makes sense to me as a method of building the system up, while people have an opportunity to power down from STEEM.

Of course, I think it's likely that a heavy amount of people who are just looking to maximize profit will look at STEEM v HIVE price, and then make a decision that HIVE is underperforming, and then stick on STEEM -- but that might have been the strategy of the recent dump?

Steemit doesn't have the kind of collective organization that was demonstrated by Hive during the fork, so there are a lot of reasons why I like HIVE as a long term investment.

I'm still confused why you would lose money in dlease - because I don't really understand how that works.

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As a tangent:

Also -- what ways can you build up intermediate sort of positions in HIVE?

• I'm looking at powering up more while HIVE is so affordable, which ought to give me a significant amount of upvote power, compared to minnow levels.

• I'm planning on blogging here 1-3 times a day, and doing more community engagement and voting. While decreasing my involvement on other social media platforms.

• I'm going to be sharing the posts and encouraging people to join up on HIVE.

Do you have any other suggestions for ways that I can increase my own return on investment for HIVE in terms of post earnings, while creating value for HIVE as an ecosystem in the long term, so that my actions contribute toward an increasing price in HIVE?

I'm comfortable committing to a time horizon of 1 year in this aggressively powered up position.

I tried onboarding artists to Steemit once, and only about 3 people joined up from my Hierophant DAO experiment. I'm not certain that they are active.

I suppose that indicates that I didn't engage with them on platform as i ought to have.