RE: Downvote Drama: Do regular quizzes, giveaways and competitions create value on Hive? Do downvotes destroy the platform? My consequences.

There's many others who bought their stake but that doesn't mean that early miners are any more invalid than buyers today. As you say those that sold probably did better so why would we list those who stayed with the platform as "unfair" early miners. We can't escape the distribution at the time and how it was changed over time but it's been nearly 10 years of author rewards constantly diluting these whales down along with a price that's mostly been bad.

In a perfect world there wouldn't have been any POW mining, no ninja-mine by ned and dan and no change to the inflation method, but complaining about what has happened in the past when price actions have made it quite void by now is a little pointless. Hive was down to just 15 cents a few weeks ago while people who've mined our coin early on lost opportunity to maybe mine ETH sub $10 or other coins. People who came to our blockchain late have also had many, many opportunities to buy in at very low prices for most of its existence so what's the use to complain about it?

When it comes to those that participated in bid botting then sure that was also quite unfair inflation for a certain amount of time but that's the price it takes to attempt to perfect an innovative idea as proof of brain I guess and as you prove here with your comments today people won't forget who participated and who didn't or tried to avoid it. I'd personally rather focus on rewarding those people and new ones than constantly find a reason to bring history up and complain about it. No offense.