I can see the benefit of not being tied to the centralised exchanges, and just having a viable alternative is the kind of thing that could make HIVE interesting to those exchanges as well.

But 328500 HBD is around 1% of the Hive market capitalisation (based on CoinGecko's current figure). That's a very significant investment, especially under current market and economic conditions.

I believe it could be a worthwhile investment, but only if it delivers an actual positive ROI.

To my mind as a business owner and bearing in mind the scenario, the best metric is past performance. So I have a simple question. How much has been paid out by the DHF over each of the last few years when Magi was VSC, and how much revenue or market capital did that bring into Hive ?

If you can show an audit trail demonstrating a positive return, then I'll be happy to vote for the proposal.