I thought that 15% meant to bring investors, clearly it didn't work out - best idea atm would be gradually lower it down. Additionally it would make sense to keep important & necessary infrastructure and let it re-build by itself (or rather us) , we got enough people which are more than " if you don't pay me I go to another chain " - and luckily / hopefully we are growing, we are more bullet proof against those that trying to squeeze out of chain.
I'm all for more professional communication, regular reporting, reevaluation
I've posted and talked about it quite a lot in the past, even when it was 20% it barely failed to bring in any new investors - all we got was finance bro's who care about APR already on here or some Steem whale to stake 2m hbd because he understands the chain and doesn't mind sending it in little at a time and potentially also withdrawing it little at a time if he feels the apr is too low.
Had there been some effective promotion along with it it could've done well, but even the very little attention it got was mostly seen as "that sounds like a scam" and that was quite literally all the attention it got. I couldn't point to one account where I could say "this is a new investors holding more than ~100k hbd". Yet we continued down this path for 3+ years now or so and even at these prices there's very few regular users converting hbd into hive from what I've seen.
yup, im seeing this too. All good lessons learned
Investors were never going to come with a 5% fee to enter HBD in bulk. The whole idea only worked if we found a way to wave the fee for legitimate, large stable coin investors. I dont think we even attended the large stable coin conference in Mexico this summer.