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Also, I'm trying to look out for Hive as a whole, this isn't a personal issue.

It isn't a personal issue to me either. I can take my money else where. The money I've powered up is the money I don't bat an eye at losing.

Hive being at 15% means nothing, when it goes down 15% in a year. (If you curate you already get close to 10%.)

And you don't have an answer to this. You can't get people to power-up at 10% already. Why would they power up at 15%? We couldn't even get people to park their money on HBD at 20% APR.

The HBD is harder to come by and honestly, I swap(ped) most of mine for HIVE. 😁 The main point of this whole thing is to give people more reason to hold their HIVE and (fingers crossed) attract new blood. HBD isn't a top crypto and never will be because of its internalization but, at one time, HIVE was. I think it can be again.

The main point of this whole thing is to give people more reason to hold their HIVE and (fingers crossed) attract new blood.

To me personally, it doesn't give me any more reasons than I already have for holding HIVE. One commonality of people that don't hold Hive is that they don't care about holding Hive no matter what. So I don't think it would be the reason for them to stay their hand.

Will it attract new blood? I am doubtful on that one as well. Projects like POSH probably have better odds at attracting new blood than giving a boost to Hive APR.