I propose we lower curation rewards to the point where the potential gain from curation is too small to make it worth the negatives associated with using an auto-vote bot.
Lowering curation rewards makes author rewards (and likely bot abuse) relatively higher, so back to the same problem as before.
The recent change to LEO’s curation curve can serve as a test for what might happen if Hive adopted something similar.
That said, the underlying idea that Hive’s inflation rate is “too high” seems a bit suspect to me. If/when the user base is 100X what it is today, inflation that’s already less that 8% won’t seem high at all.
I agree, the inflation being too high is not the issue, the crux of this is about investors losing out to inflation. If passive stakers got the inflation then it wouldnt matter, but the rub is forcing investors to play the game of curation in order not to get diluted by up to 20% per year. Eth has had a relativly high inflation since inception, if you add the premine selling ontop the inflation would be double digits, its def not the 8% inflation of Hive that is a big issue.
If investors are the people we want to attract it would be an Idea to distribute part of the inflation to LiquidityProviders for wHIVE and to let them invest there. Rewards on-chain would be in better hands of active users as these people fill the chain with life. Pushing them into autovoting for economic reasons is indeed problematic. Strengthen wHIVE with revenues would couple the HIVE price to ETH and may be a fast way up during the coming bullrun. Otherwise we may miss out this big chance.
I thought I read somewhere 3% of inflation went to passive investors? I could be wrong. I get mixed-up sometimes.
Not quite. The current ROI on HP is approximately 3% and 15% of the inflation goes to hodlers of HP.
About every three months, I crunch the numbers and do a post explaining how much hodlers of Hive Power are currently earning. Here’s the most recent one from 3+ weeks ago:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@preparedwombat/the-hive-power-you-earn-for-staking-hive
Thank you for that clarification.