I'm concerned that Orinoco is involved in this extractive manipulation of funds, since that exchange house was the mechanism I used to exchange Hives or HBDs for bolivars. We still occasionally use it to transfer funds to family or friends who live in Venezuela.

I've seen a lot of rewards being sent to orinoco.
And as I mentioned in the blog; everyone is free to do with their rewards what they want. And supporting your family is a good reason to withdraw some funds.
But if everyone withdraws all their rewards, the value of Hive will keep dropping and nobody will receive any rewards to withdraw.