i wish they had an option to "Power Down to HE token" and it automatically powered down and bought swap.BTC or auto powered down from vessel, as you can do, you can select which account gets the power down, and you can just have @blocktrades get each weeks power down and if its large enough, convert that to BTC lol or doge or eth and just send it to the address sent in your memo or whatever is last used address on blocktrades.us account lol
That might be possible, however, Hive was not built to run logic, just to save JAON objects, just recently we have managed, with great effort, to add, for example, the possibility to convert Hive into HBD, before only HBD could be converted into Hive. Because all witness must agree on JSON state changes, those changes are difficult.
Hive Engine is an attempt to add logic to Hive but it is prohibitive both in term of cost to deploy but also in terms of what can you do with it.
To do something like you said on another blockchain, like Ethereum, is relatively easy and straightforward, but on Hive? You gave to write smart contracts that are basically hard coded to Hive Engine.
I appreciate the effort to add logic to Hive but I totally dislike the way it is being done.
Of course I couldn’t do better, I am right now doing some research on what could be done, and trying to learn how to get consensus and security when dealing with states on Hive, but I always stumble on the issue that Hive only stores states, and to get consensus would require an extra layer, just like Hive Engine….. It is frustrating to develop for Hive if you care about descentralization and security