Great minds think alike 😄 I also did a 1K Hive power up.
Would it be terrible if $HIVE stayed at $0.30 for a while? I don't think so. It would definitely give me the opportunity to pick up more. Although, I do think having 40% of our tokens on exchanges is a bit too high. For comparison, only 10% of Bitcoin is on exchanges. If there are more people like you and me BUYING $HIVE at sale prices, we'll eventually start buying at $0.31, $0.32... and so on. The price WILL go up when buy pressure from dolphins and orcas (hard-core, long-term hiveans) starts picking up.
And if someone, somewhere comes up with a business use case for HIVE, or if a payments processor partners chooses to process its transactions on HIVE just like PayPal did with Solana... then my friend, Hive will moon 🚀
It would be great to see more "equal" distribution of tokens on HIVE... Some of our whales are too big and they have other ways to take profits, and it's not by selling their HIVE... I like to joke that strong Orcas can be killer whales, as they are in real life... Let's not use strong words like "killer whales", but rather, strong Orcas to keep the balance in the HIVE ecosystem... 🙂
Strong Orcas unite! I will be joining the orca rank soon and will be chanting this from the rooftops haha. Just give me a few more months. I have a post I've been meaning to finish about how, just like you mentioned, Orcas work together in the wild to protect each other and hunt. It's fascinating and I think Orcas need to work together on HIVE too. We can restore balance to the HIVE ecosystem by pushing back on whales with many medium-sized votes and also keeping our share of the reward pool staked.