How about burning the funds in the DAO instead? It's not really working, which is a major reason why the token price is so low.

Lastly, my experience with tribes has shown me that high percentage distribution through a tribe is bad, but having just enough to give people a taste is great.

The distribution of what exactly? HIVE rewards?

I disagree that we should cut hive inflation and post rewards to zero. I just think we need to cut the whole thing drastically. If you thought the halving is good for business just wait and see what the eigthening can do for you.

HIVE is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin's value proposition is to be an inflation hedge. Investing in Bitcoin is betting against a broken financial/economic system where central banks are forced to overprint currency. HIVE is a utility coin on the Hive blockchain. It will be gobled up in no time if there is growth. Growth is lacking because either 1) the time for tokenized social media/online communities hasn't come, yet 2) not enough development is being done 3) or there has been a failure of governance on Hive.

#3 is not fixed by further centralizing power. My guess the reason Hive isn't growing as much as it could is a combination of #1 and #2. This is so radically new that many obstacles for adoption still exist. Also, while some interesting new second layer projects have been launched, a critical mass hasn't yet been reached.