And that's to say, the one project that "split" away and actually has a chance to prove DPOS works in the real world he isn't a part of that much, if at all, Hive. So, not sure what his end goal is, but it's damn obvious what this communities goals are, to remain with a healthy level of decentralization.

Ninjamine/Premine on coin voting is like tying someone's legs together and then claiming they can't sprint and that legs are useless. Let's see what real coin voting can do that does not involve a centralizing founders stake. Dan L has literally given no time for this idea to work; with BTS, the mining went to all one group of people, and the very high consensus count made Sybil attacks easy. We learned a lot from BTS, and now Hive is set up to do this thing right with several distribution points, no premine, and an even token distribution (comparatively)

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