"As soon as new capital arrives..."
I'm not going to disagree with your claim about present capitalization of Blurt!, as I have neither reason nor urge to do so, other than common prudential practices, which aren't applicable to Blurt! principals to my knowledge. However, investment chases ROI, and specifying what provides that to new money coming in would be advised, at least IMHO.
"You yourself wrote that DV is the reason most tokens go to whales."
Yes, and it's still true. But that's the reason for Hive's terrible user retention, and is killing the platform. Sooner or later it will result in a death spiral (if that's not presently in progress) and that will change the whales. Profiteers that were only here for the steady cash will move on to pastures they can graze profitably, and some may stay to Make Hive Great At last, by enabling the user base to grow. Anything can happen. We'll see.
"...even 15% yields a low rate of return after subtracting dollar inflation. BTC yields better returns..."
Both claims are true. However I long advocated - and still do - for 20% yield on HBD savings for that very reason. As to BTC it is good that there are better returns, but anyone that puts all their eggs in one basket is begging to lose them all when some catastrophe specific to that basket comes along. Seasoned investors don't do that, because they've either made that mistake before and lost their ass, or seen it happen to someone else and learned the easy way.
"...those who invested in HBD lose out compared to those who invested in Hive."
There are specifics in the code that favor the ~36 whales, most of whom mined Steem early on and put those devils in the details to maintain their control of governance by maintaining their bare majority of stake. As I've mentioned before, that isn't some kind of Papal decree, but will change when that cabal has mined the platform to the limits of it's ability to withstand that parasitism. The underlying utility of social media that obviates advertising, centralization, and censorship remains potential - which is why Blurt! exists too - and will eventually shrug off that control or die of it, and Blurt! exemplifies what happens if Hive dies.
"...your solution of removing the curation reward is simply stupid..."
You can disagree and provide criticism that's useful, or you can just be an asshole, as you have chosen. I can't disagree with you being an asshole, and I can't prove your incapacity to present substantive arguments isn't the result of your lack of intelligence, no matter how hard I try, so I'm not going to try. Be all the ass you want. It doesn't reflect one iota on me, because what comes out of you is what is inside you - not me.
"...you won't achieve anything here..."
I have constantly achieved what I set out to do when I joined the platform in 2017, which is to speak forthrightly about such matters as I reckon I should. Your definition of achievement has nothing to do with me, nor are you a seer that can tell the future, so your imprecation is utterly without merit. I've never sold a token for fiat and have no interest in doing so. What you consider success isn't relevant to me, nor do I consider it success at all to attain mere financial assets absent fundamental productive capacity to create real wealth.
I've responded as you've made criticisms of substance, but, as you've demonstrated you have no intention of respectful discourse, and your lack of self esteem results in you displaying your incapacity to avoid ad hominems, I've no further interest in wasting my time watching you degrade yourself spewing written micturation in my direction. If your mother didn't raise you to respect yourself enough to demonstrate good manners, I've no interest in taking on that task. If you can't discuss agreeably, then your disagreement isn't able to be discussed with polite company, and I intend to remain polite company.
It's not an insult to call stupid ideas stupid. ;) It's stupid because it doesn't solve any of the problems you claim to want to solve, and I proved that to you in my post. The key word here is "your solution," not "you." It means that this isn't a personal insult, but rather an insult directed at your solution. Apparently, you have trouble distinguishing between the two. If you identify so strongly with your own thoughts, then we really have nothing to discuss. This demonstrates a high (perhaps even narcissistic) devotion to your ideas as the only correct ones, and it doesn't bode well for a constructive debate.
Perhaps for these same reasons, you cling so tenaciously to the idea that anything can still be achieved with what you're trying to achieve on the hive. Despite numerous voices trying to dissuade you from this idea, you ignore them all because you clearly think everyone is wrong except you. Secondly, I never said anything about profits, so you made up your own mind by assuming that people criticizing DV are only thinking about paying out tokens, which also allows us to see a certain pattern in your thoughts. In fact, your way of thinking, as demonstrated in many of your statements, doesn't differ radically from the way of thinking of the faction dominating the hive, and perhaps that's why your profile still has 74 reputation, and you haven't yet experienced the problems that make this blockchain a useless place for openly expressing yourself and your views.
You believe in a mystical drain, a decline, a withdrawal, and then a return to glory. I laughed so hard! XD Man, come back to earth. Once Hive settles down, those with their hearts in the right place will come to Blurt or give up on the graphene network altogether, rather than trying to resurrect a corpse that would require so many costly and time-consuming code changes (and the number of these changes increases over time) to fix what needs fixing. It's truly not worth it.
So why would these people do this when a rapidly developing alternative with experience in running a new version of this blockchain without DV is waiting just around the corner?
People will simply migrate to this system, which has proven to be more resilient, useful, and suitable for the new reality. It's already slowly happening, you just don't want to see it, so you'll stay here like the band on the Titanic with your stake until the last witness turns off the lights and ship will sink, and you'll keep telling tales like that old man by the fireplace, that "someday the hive will be reborn again, better and more refined, it's just not that day yet." XD No, it won't be reborn because the leeches aren't stupid :P Even on Blurt, Blocktraders didn't cash out all their shares, only half. The leeches always leave their tentacles somewhere to gain control in case a project starts to gain popularity and wealth. When that day comes, they move in to create new sources of profit. The only thing that can protect against this are the proper mechanisms built into the blockchain from the beginning before that happens. And so, even if your scenario were to prove true (which I doubt, because from what I understand, Hive will soon undergo major sheep-shearing changes that will be even harder to reverse), they'll return right at the moment of "return to glory" and ruin Hive once again.
But what can I say... have fun ;)
No, you didn't. Saying something isn't proving it.
Calling even more names while justifying yourself for doing it before indeed 'doesn't bode well for a constructive debate.'
You're being an asshole, and if you're the face of Blurt! it's going nowhere.
And you're doing it again. You're taking everything personally. I've proven it, but since you claim there's a flaw in my statements, I'm curious that instead of exposing it, you focused on directing the conversation towards the supposedly imaginary "personal epithets" you're searching for :P This only proves that you've run out of arguments and are now engaging in pointless pursuits of alleged insults against you that never happened. Why? It's simple: you're distracting from a topic that's beyond you and engaging in verbal manipulation, a clumsy attempt to discredit your interlocutor in the eyes of others, trying to divert attention from the strength of his arguments to what you portray as his lack of civility.
That's what narcissists often do ;)