Agree with that as well but even if they have done a load of good do they deserve their, in my opinion, unfair rewards from before the network was really the network? I'd be happy to see them keep their rewards earned from posting, which likely are higher since large accounts earn better, and curation but would love to see all PoW rewards burned from the network.
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I don't think that is possible in any way, as while we might not agree - at the time they did what they did,that was the way it was. We have to consider what happened at that time from the perspective of that time and anyone who knew and had the opportunity would have done the same as them, without knowing where it was going to lead at all. At that point, they didn't have any idea if it was going to become something either, only in hindsight can we see that. While they really didn't have to put much in for what they got, it could also have very well ended up going straight to zero too.
I don't fault them for taking advantage of a flawed system that Stinc used to capture power over the network. I just don't see why we (the network) would remove Stinc stake for Hive without doing the same to those early stakeholders if we really care for decentralization and our community's consensus. They didn't provide any meaningful advancement to the blockchain, other than some hashing for a validation method we never used long term, for those rewards to be actually warranted. Again I feel the only use for PoW was to let a small group (Stinc) capture control of the network without an ICO and the legal repercussions that the team were fearful of. The actual miners didn't do anything for the network other than provide some competition to Stinc for those early seed funds.
As for not knowing how the network would turn out I'm sure they've received plenty of economic benefit from their initial large stake in the form of curation rewards and added author visibility from their stake to reward them much less what they've been able to sell in past bull runs. It would have been a dream if Hive instead forked the codebase of Steem and we all agreed to start at 0 again where the actual community began distributing rewards from real consensus versus the consensus of a few people who have obtained stake without this community's consensus.
Because it was gained in a slightly different way, including the Stinc "restart" when they fucked up with their miners.
But, over the course of the 4 years and now, some of those miners are still working for the network.
This would have been terrible for someone like me, who put almost 4 years of work into building an account and presence, only to have to fucked over twice - first on Steem, then on Hive. There would have been zero benefit for anyone who had remained active through all of that shit, over all of that time.
They were still rewarded for those later contributions in the form of votes on the posts they made for those contributions. They were likely rewarded better for their contributions than someone like myself who has a lower stake than them since votes follow money and they would be in a better place to get quality rewards from their contributions.
It's completely fair that a lot of users wouldn't adopt a new network that didn't retain their past contributions. That is probably the biggest advantage of the air drop is encouraging adoption of this fork. That being said anyone who would adopt a blank network would immediately be in charge of the network as they wouldn't be fighting an upstream battle against ill-gotten stake. It's likely the rewards for users who adopt a blank network would be higher than the average of users who adopted the Hive fork.
Yes, but without the stake or the stake spread widely, would developers get rewarded by artists and poets? The development would still need to happen, but not everyone would understand the value of it.
For better and worse though. A lot of the early accounts were relatively "self-centered" and without some kind of mechanism to discourage that, it could create a very bad result. Remember that while there might be a start from zero, no one in that first group would be a blank slate with some of the most abusive from the past having nothing in their way to counter their abuse. dart/tard come to mind, as do quite a few others.