What's going to happen in the short term as these funds are disbursed to we plebs is that we'll spend them, and prices will rise.
Inflation.
When $T's go into the accounts of megawealthy banksters, they don't go out and buy corndogs to feed their starving whelps. No inflation.
We got rid of @ned and Tron in the same fell swoop. We're back to the same dozen or so whales that control consensus witnesses historically. We didn't really change anything. Distribution has only changed for one account. One less whale.
Hive isn't less centralized now than Steem was two months ago, except for that one whale. The oligarchs that currently exercise governance are the same ones that controlled Steem then, and none of them are immortal. Someday every satoshi of stake they hodl will pass to other oligarchs, if stake isn't being surreptitiously accumulated by an actor hostile to their hegemonic oligarchy already.
Plenty of banksters have personal assets greater than all crypto capital together. For those parties, censoring Hive would be trivial, because all it takes is stake.
We need a more substantial defense of our censorship resistance than the extant whales that currently defend it with all they have - because they're minnows in the big pond. We are discovering more and more that factual information is not optional in the face of lying about pandemic that can get us dead. Earlier this month Bill DeBlasio was telling folks in New York to get out and act normal.
That killed people, and still is killing people, in New York.
I know my life depends on free speech, and the whales on Hive are a slim barrier between lies and my coffin IMHO.
We need more than the price of our Hive to keep us safe from censorship.
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