A serious money is liquid and fungible. Intentional crippling retards the utility of a money, and this holds Hive back. The governance utility of tokens is nominal to preclude the dumping the powerdown delay is intended to prevent, while the curation utility creates incentive to stake. However, that degrades curation and the actual real power of social media significantly, which is one of the triad of disabilities that has hamstrung Hive and prevented it's achieving market dominance, the others being unrestrained taxation and censorship, and centralization of stake in an oligarchy in a plutocratic governance mechanism.
Social media has grown to become the largest financial sector in the global market today, which Hive has features that should allow it to utterly dominate that market. These three disabilities so hamstring it that instead of market dominance it's practically insignificant. Particularly the pure plutocratic governance mechanism renders the platform subject to Steemrolling, which forces the oligarchy to prevent growth and moon because that would attract outside capital to whom Hive's entire market cap is lunch money. Sun Yuchen demonstrated even a minor player could simply take their income streams and leave them bereft of the value of their investment. 1a1v and oracles, as @ned suggested, eliminates this vulnerability, and the total opposition to that evolution and the increase in value (and necessary competence to manage wealth) that would enable is why he capitulated and sold out.
Hive is so crippled we are losing the crypto paralympics, rather than dominating the social media market globally. Competent financial management would require preventing mere investment cash from capturing governance, ending the taxation free for all and enabling creators to benefit from social support for their content, and decentralizing the economy of Hive - all of which the extant oligarchy sees as threats to their personal fortunes. Bird in hand prevents any interest in the flock in the bushes.
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