Maybe I'm not the best guy to answer that question.....
The inflation and economics of everything on this blockchain goes way over my head. Anytime people tried to explain all the intricacies of 'the cut off', the HBD / Hive ratio, or whatever it was called...I just stared blankly into space. This is what I understood when it came to Hive...
Show up. Put in value. You will get value in return.
Simple.
To me, that is what I tried to get across when I was building on chain. I brought my online community over and trained them in this new utopian blockchain base community and boy, was I ever fired up! If you met me in person at any of the events that this blockchain community put on, you knew...I lived for this stuff! Hive was my life, and I gave everything I could to it.
I believed in it. And I wanted the world to know, real #web3 had a home here.
That was my 'speech'. I never spoke about the tech. I honestly didn't care if the chain bragged about being 'decentralized', I just wanted it to be easy to use. I never cared about 3 second transaction speed, I just wanted it to work. All of it was great, but when push came to shove, all I wanted to show the world was that if you showed up, became a part of the community, added value, you got it in return.
I spent quite a bit of time browsing all the popular topics that are trending on $HIVE right now....And there's plenty of really smart people giving their opinions on what we need to with the APR of HBD, or maybe we should increase the APR on HP....That's cool.
However, I think people miss what made Hive....Hive.
Remember when we split from Steem? What happened? The community came together!
Remember the growth and excitement that happened on all the offline events? The community came together!
Notice a pattern?
When you focused on the community, this place was alive.
However, when you start making it not feel like home...People leave. And I'm sure someone will say, only the abusers of the chain have left....
I dunno. I have seen plenty of amazing entrepreneurs get run off this chain just because they did things differently. I saw content creators being slammed because 'short form content' had no future, and here we are now seeing that indeed...Short form content is what works online. Oh boy oh boy, the fight against AI here is....Incredible to witness.
Want to see Hive explode?
Let people come here, feel at home, build a tribe or two and don't run them off.
Support as many people as you can, and for me it still remains....Show up, add value, value is returned.
I think if we all focus on that more, and less on 'protecting the inflation' or whatever the smart people say will save $HIVE we'll be in a great spot.
As my good buddy has said for years....
If your chain or community is growing by 200% a year, who cares about 10% inflation!
Or something like that.....He's a lot smarter than me ;)
I know, I know....
I can hear the people with pitchforks approaching!
It's a lot more complicated than that they say And maybe it is. But I have always maintained in my 25 years of building businesses online, when you focus on the people, you will always win!