I'm glad you had a fresh coffee in front of you before devouring this!

First off, thanks for taking the time to read, and sharing your thoughts and especially your experience about this field. Secondly, thank you very much for the 5 SPI tokens! I actually was planning to purchase some SPI, but still had to do some research. I'm sure this is a good start to help me remind myself to read more about Spinvest.

You've tried out plenty of stuff I see! The raffle tickets remind me of PancakeSwap's raffle, which brings me to their beta Pottery. Instead of paying for raffle tickets, you delegate CAKE to the pool which generates more CAKE, that same CAKE is being distributed through a weekly-lottery with tickets, whereas the delegated amount determines the amount of tickets. This could be done quite similar with this feature of HBD. I'm not sure why people would do that :), but then again... you do point out that people are mostly incentivized to enrich themselves, which is unfortunately true.

Also, for example, @arcange is asking people around, placing bot comments under blog posts that ask to support his proposal(s). While some people see this as a reminder, many (including myself) think it's a bit blunt to ask people for our Networks money without a transparent report on how much the costs are (unlike @jarvie from PeakD, who include a transparent list of costs (I applaud him for that)). This feature could exactly help Arcange, or when anyone's proposal isn't getting funded, to achieve funding on individual level without paying with valuable DHF funds. And build a culture that supports their service/product. This is simply because I believe that the $5MM locked in HBD is a bit on the lower end to support and stabilize HBD in the long run. This is a risk to consider, including a use-case to stress-relief the DHF and the network's funds.

Thanks again for sharing your insight and feedback!