Appreciate this man.
And I agree with you 100%.
I know they are a business and have fees and costs...No issue at all paying for things, I just don't wanna get charged twice for something I have spent the better part of 6 months working my tail on.
I'm a huge supporter of tribes and everything it brings to the table for HIVE. Just wanna see us (the tribes) get out of this without being double dipped.
He's got a business to run, but the business only exists because the community (us) bought into his vision in the form of ENG, EM miners and tribes. Now he's basically asking us to pay for passing go just because we're reformatting onto an identical chain. It doesn't make business sense to do that to your "customers" and more importantly to the community backing all of it.
I also don't believe the numbers as represented. Nor do I believe the legal issues. Of course, both are out of my purview, but I have a hard time believing those projections.
Also, how much does SE bring in via the STEEM->STEEMP gateway? How much would they bring in under the guise of the HIVE->HIVEP gateway?
Our usage of tribes/tokenization is what drives demand for STEEM-->STEEMP conversions and thus, a 1% fee on all of that going to SE.
When it comes down to it, many tribe owners may not be able to afford the costs to "port over" at this time. It all depends upon the front end costs plus the costs to stake the Hive equivalent of Eng.