Does ecency pay in ecency points or in Hive?
The reason I'm asking is to not sell Hive (from power down), but to power it up again and delegate. The Hive price is far from ideal.

Once the price has been restored, I'm thinking to keep some funds in a buy order at 95% of asset value, and instead of burning, list them back in a sell order at 105%. We'd become a market maker for the token,

That's actually a good idea and in addition, creating a sell order does not mean you can't burn the tokens.