RE: Can We Please Stop Powering Down !
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Yep, it's definitely tough - I've seen how hard you work and the awesome job you do of keeping it all together.
I think what I'm suggesting is a way to give people an alternative to powering down, so they keep their HP intact while having a way to cover emergencies.
But more and more, I'd love to see Hive as a way for people to earn a regular income as a top-up to real world work, and ideally as a complete alternative to it. Not just the witnesses and devs, I want to see ordinary Hivers doing it, too. I reckon the solution is to keep the HP to earn curation rewards and use HBD interest as a source of income. It's a reversal - HP becomes the long-term savings, HBD becomes the income generator.
20,600 HBD would deliver 250 HBD interest a month. While I appreciate it would take a long time and a lot of luck in avoiding real life crises to be able to build up that kind of stack, it's still a massively more achievable figure than what you'd need in traditional savings or a stocks portfolio.
Yeah I have worked out those calculations countless times. I would LOVE to build up a big stack of HBD savings so the interest could become a supplimental income.
$250 pm would be R4400 here and that would cover groceries for two weeks and have some left over after.