All very very valid points @mcfarhat, as always. I will include the open source point, totally forget about that. but its a great point.
The HBD at 15% to "market" the stable coin will never really work while there is a 5% fee to get any stable coins. Maybe future liquidity pool developments will change this, but while HBD was not on exchanges and there was a 5% fee, the idea of getting people to hold HBD for the APR was never going to, and did never work out.
Will be nice to see if you can lead by example and find a way to cut funding somewhat while still keeping the most critical parts of innovation work you are working on going within reason.
Unfortunately, Hive just isnt at 5 USD, and so the market is calling us to look at tightening