You can't just print more Hive and give it to Hive Holders and think that is ok. Printing more Hive just dilutes everyone's stake and most people just dump staking rewards anyway.
Taking Hive from others via tax is theft, this is an added tax that was not there before and doesn't need to exist at all, and is a negative thing to do.
Printing some extra Hive to give to holders isn't theft, it isn't an added tax, and is a positive thing to do.
If people want more Hive then print 10% more, it will be negligible in affecting overall price, likely won't even change it.
You're either for a instant power down or against it, if you want a instant power down there needs to be a fee.
My opinion is that for the health of this chain to continue we need to have a PoB and Abundance mindset, adding taxes to it won't produce that.
The point about exchanges powering up or not powering up is moot, they already powered up previously when there wasn't an instant powerdown, so they still will if there is an incentive from a new Justin Sun. We already know exchanges can't be trusted. A potential solution for that is to make all exchanges clearly mark their exchange accounts and in coordination with each exchange get them to give actual documentation, when exchange accounts are then identified there should be a code that can be applied to those accounts in the Hive Source code that nulls out their voting for witnesses.
The problem is that there is a 13 week power down period, the solution is to add more ways of powering down that don't hurt the mechanics of Hive. I do agree that having an instant powerdown with a fee as an opt-in thing would be ok, but the 13 week still needs shrunk down to 4 weeks anyways.
It's pretty much that simple. So you can say you're against a instant power down, which is fine. But you can't have both a instant power down and no exit fee attached to it for network security.
There really doesn't need to be a Fee.
Adding a Fee != more network security. It might make it slightly more expensive for bad actors to do something bad, they can STILL do that bad something so it doesn't add actual security.
As this is an opt in feature, its not forced on anyway you can still power down for free.
5% powerup tax.
10% instant unstake tax.
10% tax on all rewards claimed (including tax rewards)
If all of these are opt in features then there really isn't a problem.
A 5% powerup tax isn't opt in, if one converts HBD into HP and has to pay 5% to powerup that isn't opt in. Yes, you did say something about going to 100% HP rewards, if the incentive then is for people to only ever do 100% HP powerups on their post rewards then get rid of HBD because it only serves a purpose to get taxed by 5% when converting.
There actually isn't a real need for HBD at all, we already have price oracles. All of the decentralized funding requests can be funded by Hive using price oracles. One would simple request 250 USD a day in funding for example and they would be paid out Hive worth 250 USD on that day. The HBD being pegged to anything has been a 5 year dream that has never happened, though there is more work being done to make it a reality, we still don't need HBD for anything.
Same for the 10% tax on rewards.
My recommendation isn't actually to increase inflation by 10% as I suggested above, it was more a counter to what you are saying. I don't think we should add any taxes, but if adding taxes is on the menu, then I think my suggestions would work better and all around be positive.
Having slightly more inflation would be better as we get more users, it's not about getting profits, it's about having staked resources in order to use a Proof Of Brain social media blockchain. Profits and APY are just secondary benefits, not the focus.
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