...if the RC pools come out, will it alleviate the buying pressure for HIVE?
Depends upon the growth rate. What you say is correct that there will be a flood of Resource Credits since most users have a ton of excess.
However, couple this concept with the SIP by @threespeak. Each Hive that goes in there will not be eligible for Resource Credits since it cannot be powered up.
Hence we need as many as we can if things start to take off.
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