George Soros made his billions by organizing a group that broke the Bank of England. The Bank of England was trying to maintain a peg between the Deutschmark and the Pound.

Efforts to maintain currency pegs put the system maintaining the peg in jeopardy.

HIVE has a low market value. It would probably be easy for dedicated currency manipulators to completely tear our little blockchain apart by manipulating the HBD peg and its vaunted 20% interest rate. Our witnesses are good, but the cartels that manipulate currency are better.